For this exhibition, we will present works from his Red, Green, Yellow, and Blue Series. As we have come to expect, Haussmann seems to operate from inside the paintings, from somewhere behind the surface. Perhaps his skill as a printmaker has him moving in an environment free from moral relativism and defined by trust, where surprise is welcome and where color, light and interaction with surface work to allow us to engage more fully in the act of looking. His beautiful paintings include a restlessness and muscularity that do more than simply provide assurances to what is already known. This work raises questions and redefines the expected while remaining tethered to its own formal strengths and references to art history (in this case Barnet Newman's "Who is afraid of ..." and other early abstractionists such as Miro).
Mike Carroll, Schoolhouse Gallery Provincetown, MA