Jean-Marie Haessle, Jean Marie Haessle Abstract Geometric Op Art Silkscreen Lithograph Print, 1980

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Jean Marie Haessle, French-American (1939-) Serigraph silkscreen Hand signed in pencil and numbered Bermuda Triangle (Blue background) 1980 Jean Marie … Read more Jean Marie Haessle, French-American (1939-) Serigraph silkscreen Hand signed in pencil and numbered Bermuda Triangle (Blue background) 1980 Jean Marie Haessle was born in 1939 in Alsace, Buhl, Haut-Rhin, France. A self taught artist, at age 14, he was an apprentice and then mechanic in the Salt mines of Alsace. He studied and became a technical draftsman and got to work in the blue prints offices in the Mines until he was drafted into the French military. At the age of 17 he discovered art in a book on impressionism while hospitalized for a life threatening illnesses. He honed his craft by copying the masters (Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin) His abstract paintings are characterized by his native French color sense allied to an American expressionist sensibility acquired through his lifelong living and working in New York. After living for a few years in Paris, he moved to New York City in 1967 with an American girlfriend and 200$ in his pocket. He worked and lived in his studio on Spring Street, Soho becoming a force in American modernism. He explored color field painting, geometric abstraction, lyrical abstract expressionism and was never pinned down to one style. Over the years, he had numerous shows in the US, New York, Miami, Houston, Texas and California, France and Italy. In the mid 1980’s he lived for a period in France (Paris, Lyon, and Cannes). In the late 1990’s he worked in Mexico (San Miguel de Allende) where he had a one person show in 1997 in the Museo de Art in Queretaro. In 2011 he became an US citizen. He had a survey exhibition of the last 30 years of his work at the Korean University Art Museum, Seoul, Korea in spring 2014 and a major one person show in the Namu Modern & Contemporary gallery in Seoul in September of the same year. In September 2016 he had a sold out show at the Wada Garou gallery in Tokyo, Japan. He has had shows at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut, The Taiwan Museum in Taipei, Gallery One in Tokyo, Japan, the Busan Museum of Art in Korea, Galerie Jade in Colmar, France, and Kips Gallery in New York City. His work has been profiled by critics Jonathan Goodman, Robert C. Morgan, and Bernard Zurcher. This one bears the influence of the geometric op art artists such as Vasarely, Agam, Cruz Diez and Soto. One Person Exhibitions Gallery Yvonamor Palix, Mexico DF Mexico Galerie Gastaud & Caillard, Paris France Galerie Prebet, Roanne France Galerie de la Tour, Altkirch France Ecole des Beaux Arts de Metz, Metz France Kunsthaus Santa Fe, San Miguel de Allende Mexico Museo de Art, Queretaro Mexico Museo Regional de Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala Mexico Kim Foster Gallery, New York NY USA Galerie Gastaud, Clermont-Ferrand France Center European d'Action Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg France Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris France Guggenheim Gallery, Miami Florida USA LittleJohn-Smith Gallery, New York NY USA Reynold Kerr Gallery, New York NY USA Taylor Hudson Gallery, New York NY USA Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York NY USA RR Gallery, New York NY USA National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC USA The Atlantic Gallery, Washington DC USA Westbroadway Gallery, New York NY USA Westbeth Gallery, New York NY USA Selected Group Exhibitions En construccion, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato Mexico Nomad Territories, DFN Gallery, New York NY USA Gallery Yvon Amor Palix, Mexico DF Mexico Albright-Knox Galleries, Buffalo NY USA Eric Linard Galerie, La Garde Adhemar France Museo de Arte, Queretaro Mexico Art Chicago, Kim Foster Gallery, Chicago USA "Blue" Broadway Gallery, New York NY USA Galerie Cocotier, St.Etienne France Centre Europeen d'Action Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg France Foster-Peet Gallery, New York NY USA Andover-White Gallery, New York NY USA Galerie Athisma, Lyon France Cavaliero/Navarra Fine Arts, New York NY USA Cavaliero/Navarra Fine Arts, New York NY USA "Contemporary Works on Paper" Gallery Stendhal, New York NY USA Foster-Peet Gallery, New York NY USA Galerie Jade, Colmar France Chicago Art Fair, Galerie Jade, Chicago USA Salon de Montrouge, Paris France Haber-Theodore Gallery, New York NY USA The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CO USA Robert Friedus Gallery, New York NY USA "59th Annual Juried Exhibition", Hudson River Museum, Yonkers NY USA Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico DF Mexico Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo NY USA Martha Jackson Gallery, New York NY USA Cornell University, Ithaca NY USA HAESSLE 30 ans de peinture. Monography 145 pages with 70 full color reproductions. Editions AU MEME TITRE. Text by David Shaff, Gilbert Lascault, David Shapiro, Jean-Ives Bainier. Interview by Catherine Ulmer. In English and French. See less