Maria Haag is an artist living and working in Dallas, Texas. She grew up between North Dakota, Idaho, and Kansas, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in drawing and painting from the University of North Texas. She earned the Charles and Margaret Pollack art purchase award from the Mulvane Museum in Topeka, Kansas, and in 2017, 2018, and 2019 she participated in Dallas in Prizzi, a community inspired mural project in Prizzi, Sicily. She has participated in group shows at the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, Project Gallery V in New York, Austin College in Sherman, TX, Art Center of the Bluegrass in Danville, KY, and Kansas City Artists Coalition, among others. Solo exhibitions include the Cora Stafford Gallery in Denton, TX, Arts Fort Worth in Fort Worth, TX, and Pencil on Paper Gallery in Dallas, TX.
Artist Statement:
I paint bodies hovering in a state of transformation. They live in a world gleaned from my memory and imagination. Surfacing in a blend of figuration and abstraction, images from my own past, mythology, and historical paintings merge with prairie landscapes, animated by a sense of the ever present wind which constantly reshapes the land and sky. I combine these elements together, using sweeping layers of paint and digital processes, to create a personal mythology.
CV:
Projects:
Dallas in Prizzi 2017, 2018, 2019
Publications:
North Texas Review, 2019
Inscape Magazine, 2014
