Paintings
"...Haddad’s masterful precision with whites is a different approach to translucence, giving an airy, ethereal interpretation ..."
Art Now Nashville, reviews
Landscapes
these new works, which evoke places of memory, incorporate scraps, painted papers and materials found on the streets. I dwell on colorful grunge, the build-up of paint and collaged elements at the boundaries between shapes. Paint is applied with my hands, not brushes, in many of these landscapes. Finger painting helps me connect with natural body gestures, emotions and the calling up of remembered scenes
Finger Paintings
"One Thing Leads To Another"
These are loose reflections encouraged by the sabotage of found papers. One thing leads to another - paper scraps, asemic writing, crayon and paint - sometimes returning me to the core of a vague memory. Color, especially, has taken on such an important role that the palette is chosen before a single mark is made.
"Haddad's colorful abstracts are painted on unstretched canvas, bringing a sculptural sensibility to her rough lines and imprecise patterns"
Joe Nolan - Nashville Scene
Joe Nolan - Nashville Scene
"Pattern Play"
The Pattern Paintings began as play - mixing colors the way I did as a child - for fun. Only after settling on the full palette do I start to paint into the loose, unstretched canvas. Some compositions become tight arrays of shapes, but in others, shapes fall apart into more chaotic relationships with each other. And there's often a little drift from the original palette. These are all canvas mounted on canvas with cradled white-painted frames.
Early Pattern Paintings
Several years ago I was fortunate to see an exhibit of acrylic paintings by native Australian artists from the Alice Springs area. I was enchanted by the feel of the loose, piled-up canvasses and soon after started painting on un-stretched canvas myself. The choice was a practical one - my large, boxy paintings on wood were a big hassle to store and hang - but also I fell for the texture of the canvas and its inherent depth which lends a three-dimensionality to every stroke.
