Fred Haag's Painting Portfolio

Girl on Couch or "Red Hots and Valentines"

2012-02-11T21:11:00.036-05:00

It took me twenty-seven years to get back to this idea. On Friday I stumbled upon the sketchbooks that I was working from in July and August of 1985. Here are two small sketches from the painting(-s) I finished in early August and September '85. I never got around to painting the one below until this weekend. Go figure.
The finished painting is from the left-hand sketch is owned by Jim and Ellen O'Hara.


Study for Lisa's Space, summer 1985

Study for Lisa's Sox, fall 1985

flipped sketch

Girl on Couch 24" x 30" (in progress) oil on canvas
This is a straight-up figure painting (no bau irony) based on some old drawings from 1985 (some of you from long, long ago might recognize the model)- but the socks were borrowed from a newer set of paintings and a different model.

I managed to mangle the working drawing but here is a similar one from the same sitting.

New Black Dress and re-worked Dolphins

2012-01-04T09:53:00.000-05:00

So, it has been some time coming, but this Black Dress (w/ Morandi Bottles) painting has finally come together.


*Black Dress (w/ Morandi Bottles)* oil on canvas, (2012	)

...and this one has finally "gelled"

Woman in Hat w/ Dolphins oil on canvas (2008-2012)

Time for some work

2011-12-18T08:08:00.001-05:00

This reminds me why I don't use color pencils. New Jess from Old Jess, 22" x 30" color pencil and watercolor wash.

Get more paint on this and do something with these dolphins.

Bunn-evolution

2011-09-20T08:17:00.005-04:00

From the start two years ago until now...(I am allergic to stuffed animals)

Lost Bunnies

This first set of bunnies (actually two separate canvases) began as a lark. I was goofing around trying to justify taking this beat up old stuffed animal from my nephew. I figured the only way I could really justify behavior like that would be to paint of draw this old rabbit. The paintings were just quirky enough that I had to do more with the subject. So, as "bunny" was sitting in the studio,on a chair with some cloth hanging over it...

Cloth Bunny

I started cloth bunny right before the Bau Movement group show and I was tired of playing with text and stencils and I was feeling the need to paint again. But then I had three bunny paintings.

Beach Bunny

This is a 30" x 44" charcoal and inkwash drawing loosely based on some family members at the Jersey shore. The Jersey shore just happens to be the place where Smitty was a life guard.

Bunny und Wehrmacht- This needs no explanation.

Study for PzKpfb II (Panzerkampfbunny)

No explanations for the next pieces either. Yes, the model "Tiger" tank and P38 are just laying around in my studio.

PzKpfb II (Panzerkampfbunny)

M4 Bunny (gotta get one for the kids)

Bunny Gun (2011)

Trying to get something accomplished...Day Lilies and Flags

2011-07-12T18:16:00.002-04:00

Blocking in the shapes and color. Trying to get something going before the sun shifts too much.

Day Lilies and Flags 18" x 24" (oil on canvas) -trying to paint between household emergencies and day-to-day
conspiracies.


A lot of sun and poison ivy made for a rough start

Late Spring

2011-06-15T14:26:00.000-04:00


Day lilies I 2011 18" x 18" oil

Dogs on drive 18" x 24" oil on canvas 2011

Leghorns are going...

2011-05-12T12:41:00.000-04:00

Leghorns (Pony Up) - mixed media on paper 24.5" x 32.5"

to 12 12 Gallery in Richmond Virginia as part of its International Juried Works on Paper Exhibition.
The show runs from June 24 through August 19, 2011. Drop in to check it out if you are in Richmond.

Some new landscape stuff

2011-05-10T08:20:00.005-04:00

Azaleas (18" x 24") oil on canvas

click here for more - Landscape page


Azaleas (completed)

Sabine (new and old)

2011-02-25T22:19:00.000-05:00

Sabine (Wrong Thought- Firenze) 24" x 18" acrylic on canvas, completed January 2010.

Sabine (Wrong Thought) II 40" x 30" acrylic on canvas, completed January 2011

Wishing it was summer time.

2011-02-11T12:19:00.002-05:00

This is a start, Beach Party mixed media on paper (30" x 44" ) after I re-worked it in late November, 2010. I plan to get back to it this weekend.

Bunny Guns

2011-02-01T23:06:00.001-05:00

Trying to finish things up before next week...show goes up on Friday, February 18 at the Art Association of Harrisburg.

Sabine (Wrong Thought) II

2010-11-28T23:31:00.006-05:00

After mucking up the first attempt at this subject last year over the winter of 2009-2010, I thought that I would give it another shot. The canvas is medium size now (as opposed to small) - we'll see if I can keep the text off (or out) of it. Giambologna's sculpture in Florence (in the Loggia dei Lanzi) is the inspiration, although the painting is a reverse image of the original sculpture.

stage 3
Sabine (Wrong Thought) II -Acrylic on Canvas 40" x 30"

stage 2

stage 1

PzKpfbII - getting there

2010-11-21T20:50:00.007-05:00

It's getting there...rise and rise again until bunnies become lions

Here is a view of the still-life and an earlier drawing.

trial and error

2010-11-20T09:20:00.000-05:00

moving on with some color and space issues.

So far there has been a lot of trial and error with this picture
and I suppose that there will be a lot more to come.
(48" x 40" acrylic on canvas)

Bunny und Wehrmacht

2010-11-19T16:03:00.001-05:00

Some drawn musings…

Bunny und Wehrmacht ink and charcoal on paper, 22” x 30”

PzKpfb I (Panzerkampfbunny I) Study ink and charcoal on paper, 19” x 25”

And some painted…

First stage of PzKpfb II (Panzerkampfbunny II) 30” x 40” acrylic on canvas Second stage of PzKpfb II 30” x 40” acrylic on canvas Third stage of PzKpfb II 30” x 40” acrylic on canvas – Got tank?

Fourth stage of PzKpfb II 30” x 40” acrylic on canvas

Fifth stage of PzKpfb II 30” x 40” acrylic on canvas

Figure studies

2010-07-21T23:58:00.002-04:00

Some quick studies for future projects, using ink, watercolor, and pastel.

D- is for Daffodil and Jess (white dress)

2010-07-01T14:57:00.004-04:00

D - is for Daffodil and Jess (white dress) are going to be in a show later this month at YorkArts...just in time to make a little more room in the studio.

White dress is a lot smaller that "D" and they seem to be very different to me. Anyway, now I will have a bit more room to maneuver.

Evening Daylilies (in progress)

2010-06-10T21:32:00.001-04:00

So for the past three days (or I should say evenings after work and chores are finished), I have been painting after dinner until it it too dark to see…

This is 30” x 40” oil on canvas (with the corner of the barn behind the daylilies)

After another week (of evenings)

The last painting of spring 2010 (please forgive the blurriness)

A little more progress…

New Piece (borrowing Vince’s chair)

2010-06-06T17:26:00.000-04:00

I have started a new (relatively small ) painting that depicts an object on a chair…sort of reminiscent of another work.

This is an earlier stage of Vince’s chair- with something a lot of Dutchmen my age (and a little older) might recognize.

And at a later stage… after I brushed over everything with a turpentine wash…the geometry of the FAL is difficult to get correct. There is a lot more work to fal(low)

This is where it’s going after this evening (Sunday, June 6)

I have been wanting to settle down and work on something more objective after the last paintings, but I think that I need to move to a larger scale, or (as Gerry Herdman told me almost thirty years ago) get smaller brushes.

after some work last night.

D-evolution (Daylilies)

2010-06-02T08:59:00.008-04:00

I painted a landscape in 2001 (Daylilies in the garden)...the paint was way too thin and the color wasn't right. To make matters worse, the shapes were predictable and the canvas seemed to be an unworkable dimension (60" x 30"). You can see most of the original painting above left. Late last spring, I started to rework this -adding and removing shapes and details, eventually I added a figure, Marcy, to the picture you see above.
I continued to re-work it over the past year, and into this spring- pushing and pulling shapes, and trying to determine how much detail to put in the figure. Should it be a generic figure, or a portrait?

It still wasn't right-primarily because the angle of the sitter seemed to be "off" in relation to the surrounding space, and the fact that I have been picking at it over the past ten months...

Finally, last night, I covered the painting with black oil paint, scraped away the bottom half, and scribbled some phrases across the top, and added some stenciled text.
Now I have something that I can work with!

"D" is for Daffodil- getting there

2010-05-31T08:49:00.004-04:00

"D" is for daffodil acrylic on canvas, 60" x 50"
There is some work to do, but it is getting there.

(for a sense of scale)

RE-member

2010-05-17T08:18:00.003-04:00

RE-member acrylic, charcoal, and oil on board and frame

D is for Daffodil - (a very early stage)

2010-04-07T16:53:00.008-04:00

D is for Daffodil 60" x 50" acrylic on canvas A small study from two weeks ago.
this is what I have been messing with for a few days.

Jess kept squirming and moving. Partly to avoid the stink bugs and bumble bees, partly because she is 8 months pregnant.

When I started to work on this painting, I wrote down all of the artists I could think of whose last names began with a "D". I have no idea why. I played around with a few "E" names, but I wasn't into it. I looked across the yard to the chicken coop and saw the daffodils, and that was where this painting headed...D is for daffodils.

The scale and design of this small study (from two weeks ago) got me started on this idea.
(actually, that is not quite true. I have been working with/on these daffodil paintings for years and years. I wish that I could keep some fresh for a few months to allow for more development.)
Below is one study from early April 2009.

Daffodil study (2009) 20" x 16" acrylic on canvas

Jess

2010-03-17T11:02:00.001-04:00

Jess, 24" x 18" a little study from last night

Time for Spring cleaning or play?

2010-03-10T10:59:00.003-05:00

New/Old Sarah, 15" x 12"
mixed media and collage on paper (2010)

Sometimes, you have to play.

Images of the self

2010-03-07T18:20:00.005-05:00

As of March 7, 2010

March 6, 2010

Based on a recent discussion I had with a friend, I am working to make my figures heavier, or have more weight. I am not referring to pounds here, but rather substance. This is an acrylic self-portrait study (20" x 24") that I started late last week.

Article on Bau Movement exhibition

2010-03-04T08:15:00.003-05:00

Here is a link to an article by Scott Campbell in the March issue of Harrisburg Magazine
The print article has photographs of all of the artists' artwork. The article is titled, York Gallery Promotes Regional Artists.

Winter Skull II

2010-02-28T17:12:00.004-05:00

Winter Skull II, acrylic on canvas, 2010
This is a small study that I am working on, maybe combine it with something else later (more skulls, the bunny, who knows?) I have worked with these skulls before. Here is an old one from 2004 (below)

Winter Skulls, 2004 oil on canvas (sorry about the glare)

Bunny room (Cloth Bunny)

2010-01-17T16:48:00.009-05:00

Cloth Bunny 42" x 36" acrylic on canvas, January 2010.

There are a few elements in this painting that might be familiar to people who have seen my painting over the last two years. This painting was started three weeks ago (right after Christmas) but the sketches and studies were not coming together. There are a few more elements/ subjects/ objects that I want to add.

But it has to be finished and dry by Friday morning!!!

The bunny room (it is starting to creep me out)

Wrong Thought (Sabine)

2010-01-08T15:05:00.007-05:00

Wrong Thought (Sabine) acrylic on canvas

This is painting is inspired by Giambologna's sculpture, the Rape of the Sabine Women, in Florence Italy. Yes, I flipped the photo that I took during a visit two years ago.

Lost Bunny (found)

2010-01-01T17:22:00.002-05:00

Lost Bunny (found) charcoal on paper
This is a study for something, not sure what, but something.

Lost Bunny (-ies)

2009-12-07T16:20:00.004-05:00

Lost Bunny (-ies) acrylic on canvas 24" x 42", 2009

Thanksgiving is 26 days after Halloween

2009-11-26T09:10:00.003-05:00

Smush face (thanks Ryan)

Collapse of empire

Some more Jess from Summer and Fall (2009)

2009-11-25T10:08:00.003-05:00

Reclining Jess (2009) oil on canvas 24" x 18"

Thoughtful Jess (2009) oil on canvas 18" x 18"
Both of these were completed during that last days of October (when the weather was still warm enough to work in the barn-studio). It was difficult for me to work on the figure when I was trying to finish work for the Bau Movement show (scheduled to open in January, 2010). Painting and drawing the figure is probably my biggest challenge and favorite subject. There is something about working with a model that is so difficult and so rewarding at the same time.

White Dress oil on canvas (summer 2009) 42" x 36"

Leghorns

2009-10-13T12:25:00.002-04:00

Leghorns Charcoal, india ink, and acrylic paint 22" x 30" 2009

Some new work (for the next show)

2009-10-05T14:00:00.013-04:00

Chels Leaning (Arno) this is an acrylic on canvas painting 30" x 24"
(in a very rough and early state).

B. P. (Firenze) acrylic on canvas, 24" x 24"
This image was first used in a 2008 stencil (below), and for many reasons the story of Dante and
Beatrice Portinari always hits me when looking at photos that I took in Florence.

Eve's Coupons , I hope to work out an entire series using Adam and Eve.

I've been kicking around both of these ideas for almost a year now, and I decided to get them out instead of mulling over them. They are each in the beginning stages, and hopefully I will have more progree to post tomorrow.

Yorkfest Juried Exhibition

2009-08-29T07:05:00.004-04:00

On August 4, I was very pleased to learn that two paintings were selected for the Yorkfest Juried Exhibition that is held each year at YorkArts in conjunction with the festival.

All of This III 2008 oil over acrylic on canvas

Jess Knitting 2009 oil on canvas

I was totally surprised to find out at last night's opening that All of this III had been selected for best of show by Jean Miller, Chair of Art and Design at Towson University.

The show runs through Saturday, September 26 at YorkArts, 10 N. Beaver Street in York, Pennsylvania.

Chels Leaning (Firenze ) - completed painting

2009-07-23T12:16:00.005-04:00

"Chels Leaning (Firenze)" 42" x 36" acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 2009

from yesterday (July 22)

You can see the earlier versions of this painting from last month (June 22) at (Chels Leaning (Firenze) - in progress and pulling together)

This painting began as a photograph that I had taken on a trip to Florence last year. I manipulated it by turning it into a negative, then enlarged it and printed it. After a bunch of modifications, I made a stencil and transferred it to a mid-sized canvas.

Some Landscapes

2009-07-23T11:36:00.004-04:00

Working with watercolor seems to be a battle between flow and restraint; between wet and sharp; between open and closed.

"Summer Fence row" 18" x 12" watercolor, 2009

"Mount Pisgah" 24" x 18" watercolor, 2009

Some new figure painting-Marcy and Day lilies

2009-06-29T19:12:00.005-04:00

Marcy and Day lilies, this is a small (24" x 18") oil study for an idea that I have been kicking around for some time. I'm thinking maybe a psychedelic portrait or something.

Watercolor Barns

2009-06-25T10:14:00.006-04:00

Some watercolor studies from an outing yesterday.

Brogue Barn II 24" x 18" watercolor, 2009

Brogue Barn I 12" x 9" watercolor, 2009

Chels Leaning (Firenze ) - in progress and pulling together

2009-06-25T10:00:00.004-04:00

These are the latest version of "Chels Leaning (Firenze)"
42" x 36" acrylic on canvas 2009

The latest version references a discussion from this past Monday (June 22)

"Chels Leaning (Firenze)" 4th stage

"Chels Leaning (Firenze)" 3rd stage

Chels Leaning (Firenze ) - in progress

2009-06-09T18:29:00.006-04:00

Chels Leaning (Firenze) - in progress acrylic on canvas 42" x 36" 2009

Chels Leaning (Firenze) II - mixed media on copy paper 24" x 18" 2009

Chels Leaning (Firenze) I - mixed media on photo paper 24" x 18" 2009

Two studies and the beginning of the larger (42" x 36") painting based on a series of photographs from my trip to Italy in 2008. The two smaller studies are Mixed media on paper and the larger piece is acrylic on canvas.

Well, OK then.

2009-04-23T10:49:00.006-04:00

"Jess with Stencils" mixed media and spray paint on paper, 30" x 22" 2009

"Jess study" charcoal on paper, 30" x 22" 2009

Jess Knitting - April 2009

2009-04-16T07:38:00.004-04:00

Jess Knitting, oil on canvas 42" x 36" 2009
This is probably the last painting of Jess "on the couch" - it is almost time to move to the studio in the barn.

New work

2009-04-01T23:40:00.005-04:00

after a few hours work last night... (April 2)

A new painting of Jess that I am working on.

old monKey

2009-03-02T14:44:00.002-05:00

I could not resist posting this old monkey piece.

monKeys, acrylic on canvas, 2006 (Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Noel Sloboda)

dabbling with some flowers (you can only take so much winter)

2009-03-02T10:08:00.007-05:00

Primrose study II, watercolor, 9" x 12"

Primrose study, watercolor, 9" x 12"

Primrose study IV, watercolor, 9" x 12"

Primroses, acrylic on canvas, 18" x 22" 2009

More Jess on Couch paintings

2009-02-05T10:06:00.009-05:00

Jess on Couch V 2009, oil on canvas

Jess on Couch IV 2009, oil on canvas

Jess on Couch III 2008, oil on canvas

Here are a few newer Jess paintings from late 2008 and early 2009 (all oil all of the time)

BAU King Pin

2009-01-22T14:22:00.003-05:00

"BAU King Pin" 2008
I have got to find some way to work this into my painting
and maybe add Monkey Zombies.

Portrait of a BAU Artist

2008-12-22T15:49:00.003-05:00

"Portrait of a BAU Artist", Montana spray paint on bristol, 8" x 8" 2008
now I need to do one of everybody.

first stage of "Portrait of a BAU Artist"
but it needs a little something

Eve's Coupons

2008-12-18T11:41:00.003-05:00

Here is a little fun. Spray paint on paper.
"Eve's Coupons" 24" x 18"

I used a photo that I took in Florence last spring in the Duomo Museum. What shame is coupled with the loss of one's coupons???

Lunch - Bau

2008-12-09T22:19:00.001-05:00

Lunch bau, 19" x 13" spray paint/stencil on canvas
-now that the text and font are working a little better, I want to monkey around with the shapes and perhaps enlarge the image or work with more of the figure.

Lunch bau, 19 x 13
trying to select the correct font and size before going into this with color.

Lunch, 17 x 14 2008
Trying to develop this and get something going with text.

Jess on Couch II

2008-12-04T10:07:00.005-05:00

Jess on Couch II, 24 x 20, oil on canvas 2008

'gonna see if I can manipulate this a little bit into a stencil image and play with the checker pattern on her dress.

Well I never did get around to changing this painting, and now it has been sold.

Don't Tread On Me and others...an experiment in progress

2008-11-30T18:14:00.006-05:00

Engagement (early stages) 17" x 14" November 2008

Lately, I have been thinking about images that are more direct and less personal. Maybe try to remove some of the ambiguity that occurs so often in my painting. Anyway, since I have always relied heavily on strong contrasts and working with shape, and I use letter stencils and hand-drawn stencils in some of my paintings, I thought, "why not?"

I don't know if these stenciled images will be combined into a larger piece or be developed separately. The disruption that occurs with the girl and the swastika is probably too much. The only reason that I used the swastika in the first place was that the girl in the original image looked so Germanic and the whole South African/ Afrikaner, Dutch, diamond industrial complex was just too tempting and too ironic to make the symbol anything else. Maybe it was all of those movies with hot blondes and Nazi uniforms...maybe I can blame it on Mel Brooks. Maybe it reminds me of the young women in my classes with huge engagement rings and their haughty, slightly fascist overtones. A dollar sign would be too obvious and (according to my wife) it isn't that easy to read anyway.

Don't Tread on Me (in progress) 9" x 12" November 2008

Just beginning to goof around and work out some ideas for a new series. The idea of "Don't Tread on Me" has been in my head since the election. I would like to delve a lot deeper into this theme and definitely add at least one or two colors and some text here.

Slippery paint- a work in progress

2008-11-26T22:53:00.009-05:00

Jess on Couch I, 2008 oil on canvas
Jess came over tonight and we got started on a new painting. Trying to resolve space and face...paint can be so slippery when wet. Keeping this as fresh and clean as possible is the biggest challenge.

new-age raptors

2008-11-20T11:40:00.009-05:00

The old chicken field.

First steps outside

The last batch of young'ins

Myrtle stalks her prey...

- obviously PJ does not consider himself to be prey...

Yesterday I found an old photograph of about twenty chickens. Barred Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, and Leghorns (Miss Left and Right beret respectively). Now we have but three tired Rhode Island Reds and a single lethargic rooster, PJ. Maybe some new day-old chicks will need to be procured next March.

Figure Painting

2008-11-07T13:22:00.005-05:00

Some (more or less recent) self-portraits

2008-10-28T13:10:00.007-04:00

These self-portraits were drawn as studies for the painting,
All of This IV (2008) from late August through early September, 2008.
each drawing is 30" x 22" charcoal on paper.

Bau Movement images

2008-10-23T13:45:00.003-04:00

Bau Pears with Black Stripes 30" x 22" acrylic and ink on paper 2008

You Can't 15" x 22" ink, chalk, and acrylic on paper 2008

Pears on a Table

2008-10-18T14:48:00.004-04:00

Pears on a Table, 24" x 30" oil on canvas

Retro Jess

2008-10-16T11:04:00.009-04:00

Retro Jess 36" x 36" oil on canvas
After re-working tonight (10/29)

After re-working (10/22)

A new figure painting that I started on October 15, 2008.

some pears

2008-10-16T11:00:00.004-04:00

Pears with Black Stripes, 16" x 20" acrylic on canvas

Pears with Green Stripes, 16" x 20" oil on canvas

Some still life studies of pears...paintings that need to be done.

Woman with Hat and Dolphins (completed October 25, 2008)

2008-10-12T07:35:00.032-04:00

50" x 42" Oil paint (over charcoal and acrylic ground on canvas)

This painting has been started over and over again in my mind for half a year... maybe longer. More correctly, only parts of this painting. In some respects, there are similar pieces going back to the early 1980's. Similar in that they depict or contain images of a woman or women sitting outside, on a beach, park, or garden. The figure is not a specific person, but rather a generic type (until I can get a model later this week). Once I am working with a model, the figure might become more developed and individualized, but that's hard to know right now. There is no hiding the fact that you can see Richard Diebenkorn's influence in this piece. That is one reason why I would like to retain some of the figure's ambiguity. Thankfully you can't see the earliest stages when the figure was larger and the whole piece was more like an Alex Katz painting.

Initially, this painting was a much more decorative piece that depicted four dolphins (borrowed from Dionysus in a Boat, a Kylix by Exekias from about 540 B.C.) I did not intend for this to be a figure painting. The strong dark shape of the dolphins started to conjure up thoughts of torpedoes, or missiles, or even sharks- and the whole thing was a lot more ominous. Maybe this notion could be developed. Maybe use a sort of U.S.G.I. stenciling on flat shapes of U-boats, or ships, or something. But somehow, instead of becoming more warlike, or developing along a more decorative path it went in a different direction. Darn it if the dolphins didn't remind me of the beach, and the beach reminded me of summer hats, and the summer hats brought back this image that has been on my mind or in my thoughts or whatever for a long long time; and this is what I have so far.

Blackheart's Flowers

2008-10-04T09:33:00.015-04:00

(Das letzte Werk in der Serie)

Blackheart's Flowers, 50" x 42" (2008)

I am trying to pull together the more successful aspects of All of This IV, by using elements of shape, stenciling, and straight representational painting.

All of This IV

2008-09-22T13:04:00.008-04:00

Completed mid-September, 2008 42" x42", (acrylic and oil paint on canvas)

In the early stage (self-portrait, acrylic on canvas 42" x 42")

This began as a goof-off piece. I was waiting for another piece to dry and I noticed my shadow being cast by three different spotlights. I traced the shadow, said to myself, "this is sorta cool" and leaned the canvas against the wall for about six weeks. Later, I toyed with the idea of changing the colors to gradations of blue, and then thought about painting the same blue fabric as seen in some of the other paintings from this summer. Eventually, I made stencils for the fabric pattern and the painted the self-portrait in late August/ early September.

I want to pull figuration, expressive paint, stencils, and strong color/shape together.

All of This III (revision)

2008-08-30T12:35:00.005-04:00

I repainted this piece over the past month, and now it conforms more to the interior paintings than the stencil works. A painting more akin to the stencil works is coming along as well.

All of This III

2008-06-30T12:39:00.006-04:00

Another piece that was started last week, All of This III, in a very early stage

Their Seat

2008-06-30T12:36:00.002-04:00

Here is the Guest Seat or (Their Seat) in its completed state, 50" x 50" oil on canvas.

All of This II

2008-06-19T08:16:00.008-04:00

A new still life (in-progress) All of This II. I started with a drawing in black and white acrylic and the followed with oils. There is still a lot of work to do here, and I will probably explore this subject more with a larger version or some variation on this theme for quite some time...maybe with some Chucks.

-(see All of This III and IV)

In Progress- New painting in studio/barn

2008-06-02T08:49:00.019-04:00

Here is a new work-in-progress from the barn. The title is The Guest Seat (oil on canvas, 50" x 50"). I am trying to work out some things with space and shape, and color that have been getting to me for that last couple of years. One of the "things" is trying to paint specific ( even hard) shapes that stay distinct while at the same time do not seal themselves off from the rest of the painting. It has more to do with space than anything...I guess that I am after a kind of natural fluid space with specific and recognizable individuals,forms and objects.

This "fluidity" for lack of a better term is always present when I begin my paintings, but as the painting becomes more developed, the shapes become tight and stagnant. So the process becomes a sort of wrestling match between finished and unfinished, developed and under-developed. The goal is to retain the freshness of a good start and satisfy what the painting needs simultaneously.

So much for figures

2008-05-09T12:52:00.010-04:00

Some new paintings are in the works since I can't paint the figure right now. I am trying to work through a lot of different things. Some very very personal, some on a more aesthetic level. Either way, every day in the studio seems to be a fight or battle of some sort.

I don't quite understand why I can get more work accomplished when there is a personal crisis, but I suppose that I should be happy that I have an outlet.

The first piece, Lonely Chair, was done shortly after visiting Italy. The second painting, Empty Chairs, was finished about two weeks ago (late April 2008). I never figured on painting chairs again. I usually turned to chairs in interior spaces when I was alone, had no model, or was stuck...

I guess that I shouldn't listen to the Beatles so much.

Italy Slideshow

2008-04-07T13:25:00.006-04:00

Painting of Jess Miller (Miller, Jess)

2008-03-27T11:37:00.009-04:00

The painting, Miller, Jess (2006) 48" x 40" oil on canvas was sold last week. Ordinarily I would not mention something like this, but it has been more than ten years since any of my figure paintings sold, and this is a much needed shot in the arm.

I remember a gallery owner telling me twenty years ago that I should never paint the figure because no one wants to buy a picture of someone they do not know.

Well, go figure.

Miller, Jess oil on canvas 2006

New Artwork

2008-03-21T13:50:00.002-04:00

Ms. Anderson, oil on canvas 60 x 50
Here is my newest painting (March 2008)

More Drawing

2008-03-21T13:40:00.001-04:00

Requiem, ink on paper, 30 x 22, 2008

Italy

2008-03-21T13:39:00.004-04:00

Chandelier, Venice Italy.

Shamed Eve, Duomo Museum Florence.

Venetian Glass.

Monkey Crosswalk along the Arno River, Florence.

Heh heh heh, Florentine sculpture.

Resume - Teaching and Selected Exhibits

2008-03-21T11:03:00.012-04:00

FREDERICK C. HAAG

Associate Professor of Visual Arts Arts and Humanities Division

University College Penn State York

Education
MFA- Painting and Drawing, Pennsylvania State University, 1986.
BFA- Painting and Drawing, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 1984.

Academic Honors
Graduated with honors from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1984
Michael Leone Senior Prize for Studio and Academic Excellence, University of the Arts, 1984.
Alexander Award for Studio and Academic Excellence, University of the Arts, 1983.
Dean's List, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1981-1984.

Teaching Experience
I teach Studio Arts Courses in painting, drawing, design, and research projects at Penn State York.

Creative Accomplishments / Selected Exhibitions

2008 80th Annual International Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg Pennsylvania, (May 9 – June 12, 2008) Juror: Nat Trotman, Assistant Curator, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York. (1 painting)

2008 Studio Gallery 234, York, PA (January 19 – March 15, 2008) curator, Mary Todenhoft 20 works –Three Person Exhibition (Ry Fryer, Phyllis Fredericks, Fred Haag).

2007 Not Naked: What Our Clothing Reveals About Us, DOSHI Gallery, Susquehanna Art Museum, (August 9 – September 9, 2007) Jurors: Mary Hochendoner, R. Andrew Hoff and John Hertzler, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.(1 painting)

2006 Paintings and Drawings, Morrison Gallery, Penn State Harrisburg, October 27- December 22, 2006.

2006 Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA (February 18 – March 23, 2006) 20 works - Three Person Exhibition.

2006 Art of the State 2006 Annual Exhibition, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg Pennsylvania, (June 10 – September 11, 2006) juror, Susan Fisher Sterling, Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Art and Programs, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.

East Meets West, DOSHI Gallery, Susquehanna Art Museum, (September 2 – 30, 2006) Jurors: Mary Hochendoner, Jo Margolis, and Ellen Siddons, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.(1 painting)

2005 Studio Gallery 234, York, PA (September 10 – November 12) curator, Mary Todenhoft 20 works –Three Person Exhibition (Fred Haag, Mary Todenhoft, Daithi O’Glaisain)

2004 68th National Midyear Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown Ohio (July 10 – August 29) juror: Edward Lucie-Smith, art historian and author.

2004 Art of the State of Pennsylvania, 37th Annual Exhibition, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg Pennsylvania, (June 12 – September 12, 2004) juror, Douglas N. Wirls, Assistant Professor, Painting, Pratt Institute.

2002 66th National Midyear Show, Butler Institute of American Art. Youngstown Ohio (July 6 – August 18) juror: Jerry Berger, Director of the Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Missouri.

2000 W&J National Painting Show at Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA
(April 7 - 27) Jurors: Stanley Lewis, painter, American University, Washington D.C.; Hugh Taylor, Chairman, Washington & Jefferson College; Kenneth Conley, Assistant Professor of Art, Washington & Jefferson College.

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