Totem

Pop meets folk art (with Basquiat overtones) in the work of Portland’s prolific Chris Haberman. At its best, Haberman’s many-media (paint, glue, charcoal, ink pen, oil stick, lipstick) work on found everything (panels of discarded wood, trays, table tops) is a complex visual poem, meeting its subjects with a sometimes jaded, sometimes exuberant layered style invoking urban chaos, of a bright and not particularly apocalyptic sort.

Haberman is a working writer, painter, curator, event coordinator and musician native to the Portland area. He regularly coordinates art local art events in Portland, including help with the Portland Art Center, City Hall, Alberta Arts, Southeast Artist Cleanup, Portland Art Pal and the newly started Foster Art Walk. In 2007, he was also nominated for “Starving Artist Of The Year” in Barfly Magazine, published in Portland, OR.

Aside from painting, he has published poetry, journalism and fiction, being awarded the Tom Doulis Fiction Award, the Wilma Morrison Award for excellence in journalism and is a lifetime member to the Academy of American Poets.

Contact the artist: devilclash@hotmail.com