Happy Trails is an exhibition of new work by Simon Haas. Working with graphite on clayboard—a notably smooth, hard, and resistant surface—Haas renders imagery with quiet, meticulous clarity. His subjects dwell in the everyday, drawing from queer visual culture and personal experience. The drawings embrace a directness that heightens their sensitivity to touch, texture, and observation. Haas’s close attention equalizes his subjects in a diaristic mode, moving between explicitly erotic glory holes, overgrown shady landscapes, or waves breaking on a shoreline.
