Christopher Haun

Art Blip
Mining the cultural landscape, telepathic photographic surgery, & grids ‘n space (radio edit)

The main ingredients in these pOp abstractions are sampled fragments of pop-culture, meticulously constructed space, and materials that speak to light andcolor. Mining pOp culture’s landscape overflowing with printed matter and paper debris, images are intuitively selected, carefully cropped, telepathically positioned,and surgically fitted. Strata of images and materials build upon one anotherbecoming distinct layers where image and color play with movement and figure/ground relationship, and where flatness and depth alterperception ofdistance and space. Transparent images and translucent materials overlap opaque materials emphasizing surface quality and surface density veiling, revealing, distorting, and/or partially covering or uncovering images.

Haun was first shown in the early nineties in Los Angeles, and more recently in New York. His work is part of prominent collections including the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation and the collection of Francis J. Greenburger. Haun received a BFA from Otis Art Institute in 1994. He grew up swinging from the trees on the riverbanks of the Ocmulgee River in Macon, Georgia. He currently lives and works in Hudson, New York.

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