FULL TRANSPARENCY
Christian Haub
April 04 - May 01, 2026
I see the works as like fresco and watercolor—color cast onto and illuminated by the ground. I also think a lot about Matisse’s paper cutouts. My plexi is a sheet of cast acrylic, which, starting out as a liquid, is then cut into pieces and bonded together. I am free to move the parts around as much as I like before fixing them, like collage.
Float for Marianne Faithfull, 2026
Cast acrylic sheet, 36 x 18 x 3.25 inches
Helm Contemporary is pleased to present Full Transparency, an exhibition of work by Christian Haub, opening April 4.
Working in nonrepresentational painting since the mid-1970s, Haub began incorporating colored cast acrylic sheets as supports in the late 1980s, eventually transitioning to relief works composed entirely of Plexiglas. These works begin with cast acrylic in liquid form, which, once cured, is cut, arranged, and bonded into layered, rectilinear compositions. The resulting pieces explore color, light, shadow, transparency, and opacity within the disciplined framework of gridded matrices.
About the artist
Christian Haub has exhibited widely both in the United States and internationally, with presentations in France, Spain, Italy, Peru, and Serbia. In 1983, he was awarded the Rome Prize in Painting.
In addition to his exhibition practice, Haub is the founder of TennisportArts, an artist-run space in Long Island City, and has organized numerous exhibitions, most recently Beauty is a Blast, a tribute to his close friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, at Artcake.
Full Transparency marks Christian Haub’s first exhibition with Helm Contemporary.
For inquiries, please contact Karina.Argudo@HelmContemporary.com
