Judith Haas
Judith Eveline Haas (born ) is a Dutch-born jewelry designer and artist based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City. She works in metals and is known for hand-fabricated jewelry and abstract paintings on patinated sheet metal.
Early life and family
Haas was born in the Netherlands and holds a master's degree in movement sciences from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She moved to New York around 2000 and later trained in jewelry-making at the Fashion Institute of Technology, establishing her own studio in the early 2000s. She is a great-granddaughter of the German-Jewish writer Else Dormitzer, a Theresienstadt survivor, and of the German ceramicist and painter Hermann Haas.
Career
Early jewelry by Haas combined silver and bronze settings with semi-precious stones such as labradorite, amethyst and tourmaline. From the 2010s onward Haas's work shifted toward patinated brass and copper and two-dimensional artworks on sheet metal.
Haas describes her practice as a visual dialogue between geometries of urban infrastructure and organic TEXtures of corrosion and patina, drawing on early twentieth-century European abstract modernism to Reframe the contemporary city as a rewilding ecosystem.
Her work is carried by US and European galleries. Her pieces have featured in editorial coverage by American, European, and Japanese fashion magazines, and have been worn by performers at televised award ceremonies.