Marcel Winatschek

Sho Haze

Sho Haze draws naked women into surreal, violent landscapes—colors that shouldn’t exist, worlds where everything’s dying. She’s from Birmingham, makes her own magazines, handles the whole thing herself. The work doesn’t perform. It just exists.

She did a photo project with James Beddoes called Sticks & Stones, where she posed for him herself. Same energy as the drawings: no separation between the artist and the image. She’s the person making it and the person living inside it.

What’s clear is that she knows what she wants to make and makes it without hedging. The body of work has her fingerprints all through it—not a signature, just the commitment showing. That directness. That refusal to soften. The kind of thing you either get or you don’t, and she seems fine with that.