About

Philipp Haager creates his colorful and atmospheric paintings by building up myriad layers of ink on wet cotton or linen. These membranes capture, align, condense, and retain countless pigment particles and water droplets, binding them up in the ink. The resultant color-space paintings oscillate between luminescence and opacity, located somewhere in the nexus of Color Field, Abstract Expressionist, and Impressionist landscape painting. In their content, meanwhile, the creations picture memory and event horizons—lying on your back, gazing up, carefree, at passing clouds; sitting by the water …