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.