Gallery With A Cause • Located in the New Mexico Cancer Center • Benefitting the NMCC Foundation
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Biography
Thomas Christopher Haag was born in Wichita, Kansas into a family as vast as the sea. He took chemistry and math classes for some reason at the University of Kansas, then dropped out and started hitchhiking and painting. He has lived in southern Mexico, Switzerland, India, Spain, the Pacific Northwest and the great American Southwest. When he had to work, he has been a commercial diver, propman, art director, low-volume smuggler, curator and gallery owner. An avid muralist, both commissioned and not, he has painted buildings around the world under the names “Detach”, “Stove” and “El Pituitario”.
Artist Statement
Using reclaimed paint taken from chemical disposal facilities, found wood, and discarded books, I construct multi-layered, collaged paintings and assemblages which reference ancient cultures and spiritual traditions. Homages to criminal saints, a bodhisattva telling a fart joke, events of divine banality and cosmic significance; a new mythology stripped of pretense or stuffed with it.
