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Karl Haendel: Compassionate Conceptualism
Glendale, CA--The Brand Library & Art Center is pleased to announce the next installment of its new series, Art Talk Tuesday. This is a monthly conversation that invites contemporary artists to discuss their work and the issues surrounding it, followed by a moderated Q&A with artist and writer Jennifer Remenchik.
Join us for an artist talk and discussion at Brand Library with Karl Haendel on Tuesday, February 7, at 7pm. Haendel’s work is anchored in producing large, labor-intensive pencil drawings and includes installations, film, and public projects. Haendel views drawings as an undervalued, relatable, and democratic medium and believes they should be highly appreciated for their affordability, lack of pretense, ease of storage, and small carbon footprint. He usually shows his work as groups of drawings in installation form instead of individual works to emphasize their connectivity, like pieces of language. Haendel slows viewers down, challenging them to think about how images shape our conceptions.
Karl Haendel received a BA from Brown University in 1998 and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2003. He also studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Articles and reviews on his work have been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian, as well as in magazines including The New Yorker, Artforum, Frieze, Art and America, and Modern Painters. He has been included in the Biennial of the Americas (2015), the Whitney Biennial (2014), Biennale de Lyon (2013), Prospect (2011), and the California Biennial (2004, 2008). His work is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Guggenheim Museum, NY; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, MA, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway. He has received grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation and the California Community Foundation. Haendel is based in Los Angeles and is represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NY, Wentrup, Berlin.
Jennifer Remenchik is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles, CA, with an MFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin. a number of institutions and galleries, including No Gallery, VIVO Media Arts Centre, HILDE, basement projects, Industry Lab, and The Contemporary Austin, among others. Remenchik has been selected for residencies at the Performing Arts Forum in St. Erme, France, Toni Areal in Zurich, Switzerland, the Banff Centre in Alberta, CA, the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT and the Arquetopia Foundation in Cusco, Peru. She is a regular contributor to Hyperallergic, and has written for CurateLA, BOMB Magazine and Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, amongst others.
Art Talk Tuesday artists are selected to reflect the diversity of the art scene of the greater Los Angeles area. This program is free and open to the public.
About Brand Library & Art Center
Brand Library & Art Center has been a cornerstone for the arts in Southern California since 1956. This unique public library focuses on visual arts and music and provides free services and programs for a diverse community, including print and online collections, subject specialist librarians, exhibitions, concerts, lectures, dance performances, films, and hands-on craft programs for children and adults. Brand Library seeks to develop innovative programs, services and collections to serve an ever-widening public interested in the arts. Brand Library & Art Center is a branch of the City of Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Department. For more information visit brandlibrary.org or contact 818-548-2051.
Known as the “Jewel City,” Glendale is the fourth largest city of Los Angeles County. With a population of more than 200,000, Glendale is a thriving cosmopolitan city that is rich in history, culturally diverse, and offers nearly 50 public parks, and easy access to a municipal airport. It is the home to a vibrant business community, with major companies in healthcare, entertainment, manufacturing, retail, and banking.
About Library, Arts & Culture
Founded in 1907, the Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Department includes six neighborhood libraries as well as the Brand Library & Art Center, a regional visual arts and music library and performance venue housed in the historic 1904 mansion of Glendale pioneer Leslie C. Brand, and the Central Library, a 93,000 square foot center for individuals and groups to convene, collaborate and create. Department also serves as the chief liaison to the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission which works to continually transform Glendale into an ever-evolving arts destination. For more information visit eGlendaleLAC.org, or contact Library, Arts & Culture at 818-548-2021 or via email at LibraryInfo@glendaleca.gov.
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