Rachel Stuart-Hass: one woman show

february 16 - march 13, 2012
coolspace @ artspace

In response to the 2011 artspace exhibition Impromptu, nationally know visual arts critic, Robert Pincus called Rachel Stuart-Hass’ painting “The Creative Process” a seductive demonstration of art that rewards sustained viewing with an element of mystery of inexplicability to it, naming it Best In Show. Rachel’s paintings are mysterious and feminine, and she describes her work as “an interpretation of psychic emotions and experiences of being a woman”.

Statement from the critic

"Art that rewards sustained viewing has an element of mystery or inexplicability to it. Rachel Stuart-Haas’ painting, The Creative Process, is a seductive demonstration of this, with its sensuously rendered vision of a slender woman and two young children. They exist in an atmospheric place, where one soft passage of color segues into another. The woman is dark and phantom-like; the children pale, almost spectral. One child reaches for a cup, surely symbolic as much as it is literal, which the woman grasps -- and you are left wondering whether the creative charge, embodied by that object, is running stronger in the direction of the child or the adult. Perhaps it moves both ways. Whatever is the case --and this painting is surely ripe for multiple interpretations -- the image is executed so well that you just keep looking."
Robert Pincus, Ph.D. (Art Critic)

EXHIBITING ARTIST:
Rachel Stuart-Hass

Artist bio

Rachel Stuart-Haas is a professional artist and astrologer who currently lives in Louisiana.  She earned her BFA in Design/Illustration from The Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, MO.  Since then, Rachel has focused her time and energy on producing one of a kind paintings that feature females as seen through Stuart-Haas’s introspective vision. The paintings of Rachel Stuart-Haas portray her intuition towards the obvious and the ethereal. To her, both worlds are very real but cannot be perceived by everyone. She likes to imagine that each of these pieces captures both reality and mystery via the subject’s ability to exist in both worlds at once.

Rachel has been fascinated with astrology since she first laid eyes on Linda Goodman’s Love Signs in the 8th grade. After years of working with top astrologers, Rachel’s clients now span the globe. 

Rachel lives with her husband David, their children Ivy and Liam, and her devoted basset hound, Louie.