Simon Haas: Happy Trails
Anat Ebgi is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Simon Haas on view at 6150 Wilshire Boulevard on view from April 18 through May 23. Titled Happy Trails, the presentation foregrounds Haas’s distinct solo practice, developed alongside his work as one half of the artist duo The Haas Brothers. Working with graphite on clayboard—a notably smooth, hard, and resistant surface—Haas renders imagery with quiet, meticulous clarity. His subjects dwell in the everyday, drawing from queer visual culture and personal experience. The drawings embrace a directness that heightens their sensitivity to touch, texture, and observation. Haas’s close attention equalizes his subjects in a diaristic mode, moving between explicitly erotic glory holes, overgrown shady landscapes, or waves breaking on a shoreline.
Simon Haas (b. 1984) is one half of the artist duo The Haas Brothers. Together the brothers are known for exuberant sculptural and installation works that blur the boundaries between art and design through furniture and objects that draw on themes of nature, fantasy, and humor. Works by The Haas Brothers are held in major public collections including the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the RISD Museum, Providence. Haas lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.