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 June 6. 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. An opening reception will take place on Saturday, April 18, from 6 – 8pm.

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 fluidly between overgrown shady landscapes or waves breaking on a shoreline and a detailed examination of a muscular shoulder with exacting precision. These personal investigations are as equally rigorous, conceptual, and formal to his collaborative sculptures and furniture that draw on themes of nature, fantasy, and humor.

Describing his contribution to his collaborative work, Simon says, “I’m on the end of obsessive material research and contextualizing our ideas. I also play the role of editor. I’m a studious nerd and [my brother’s] an out-there sculptor.” Masterful at the close up, Simon’s editing eye becomes apparent through his solo painting and drawings. His imagery develops like a novel into a richly detailed world, picture by picture, shrub by shrub, wave by wave.