Self-taught artist Justin Hager is always trying out new supplies for his practice. With his latest creations, he’s been experimenting with oil, spackle, and molding pastes to make 3-D designs. These paintings underline a common theme across his art: the profound beauty of the rejected. His imagery plays with the romanticism of ruffled bows, tulips painted mid-bloom, tattered books, and delicate portraits, among other symbols.
Framed: 18.0 x 18.0 x 2.5 in.
About the artist:
Justin Hager is a self-taught artist striving to uncover the profound beauty in the mundane, the overlooked, and the rejected. His paintings are not just representations of scenes or subjects—they are invitations to see the extraordinary in the ordinary. Through new techniques and mediums, including impasto applications of Rococo-like spackle work inspired by the architecture of New York City, Hager aims to make the ugly pretty, turn angst into beauty, and find delicacy, vulnerability, and honesty in the hardened.
Justin Hager lives in New York, NY.
He has shown his work at various institutions in New York, Japan, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denmark, France, and elsewhere.
Justin Hager:
Wig City, 2024
Oil, acrylic and moulding paste on canvas, mounted onto wooden frame
18.0 × 18.0 × 2.5 inches /
Justin Hager:
Wig City, 2024
Oil, acrylic and moulding paste on canvas, mounted onto wooden frame
18.0 × 18.0 × 2.5 inches /
