Philip Haas

American contemporary artist and filmmaker Philip Haas has cultivated a visual language that blurs the lines between film, architecture, sculpture, and painting. Born in 1954 in San Francisco, Haas spent the majority of his teenage years in Rome before returning to the United States for university, graduating from Harvard in 1976. Inspired by the works of the Old Masters, the core of Haas’ work represents a dialogue between Renaissance and Contemporary art. In his set of outdoor sculptures, The Four Seasons, Haas brings the paintings of Italian Renaissance artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo into the three-dimensional physical world on a colossal scale. Haas’ artistry references both the old and the new, identifying parallels between the two and presenting them in a cinematic nature.  His work has been exhibited in the New York Botanical Garden (2013-14); Skokloster Castle, Sweden (2014); Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix; Dulwich Picture Gallery, United Kingdom (2012); among several other venues.