November 3 - 17, 2023
From 5 & J Gallery:
“As above, so below” comes from an ancient mystical text called The Emerald Tablet. The Emerald Tablet became a handbook for alchemists, who strove to transform base materials: metals into gold, mortals into immortals. In this body of work, the artist delves into a convergence of temporary and spatial planes, and the transmutation that happens when they meet. Characters from mythical and religious paintings, “high art” from the past, collide with the ruins of mundane Midwestern towns. Using an interplay of abstraction and figuration, she combines these elements in an alchemical experiment to see what will emerge.
About the artist:
Maria Haag lives and works in Dallas, Texas. She grew up in North Dakota, living in rented farmhouses and exploring the crumbling outbuildings. After moving to Kansas, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas and her Master of Fine Arts degree in drawing and painting from the University of North Texas. She received 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.
Reception: November 3, 2023 | 6–9 pm
1106 5th Street
Lubbock, 79401 Texas
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