"Good Times / Bad Times" Mask
"Good Times / Bad Times" Mask
"Good Times / Bad Times" Mask
"Good Times / Bad Times" Mask

"Good Times / Bad Times" Mask


Collection

Win and Janet Carrick Collection


Identifier

CA27


Artist

Dominique Haas Gahnke


Description

A leather mask depicting a laughing face and a frowning face. The mask is hand made out of a whole piece of leather. Dominique Haas has been sculpting leather and selling his work since 1987. He left his home of Pompey, France to live in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Jamaica in the mid-1980's before moving to Mexico in 1993 and setting up shop in Acalpulco. In Mexico, he uses fine quality leather from the central highlands of Mexico to craft leather art that is distinctively his. He prepares the leather and later shapes each mask from one seamless piece. His work has been exhibited at the Nader Galleries, in the gallery of painter Candido Bibo in the Dominican Republic and in small galleries in the U.S. and Canada. 


Medium

leather

Width

11in

Height

11.5in

Length

2in

Where Made (Region)

Puerto Progresso, Yucatan

Where Made (Country)

Mexico

Related place

Mexico

Name of Donor

Win and Janet Carrick