Karl Haendel

Born:
1976
Residence:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Nationality:
American
Trust:
APT Los Angeles
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  • "Where the Flowers Still Grow” by Bharat Sikka is on view at Nature Morte, New Delhi through May 27, 2017.

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  • From color field paintings inspired by data sets about African American life to paintings that draw from pop culture and Mexican identity, here are ni

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  • Another exhibition demonstrating high artistic virtuosity, along with an interest in politics, opened over the weekend at Susanne Vielmetter Gallery. A solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Karl Haendel occupies the entire gallery. Upon entrance, visitors are greeted by mural-sized drawings of teenage girls riding rodeo. These heroic images successfully challenge prevailing stereotypes of masculinity. The draftsmanship of these figurative drawings is at the highest level, and it's impossible not to be impressed.

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  • A show that switches up day and night. Another that features paintings inspired by a lost paradise. And objects that fuse different currents in Americ

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  • The seventh edition of the Brighton Photo Biennial opens on 1st October. It is an international photography festival produced by Photoworks.

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  • Well, we’re here. With 2016 finally coming to a close, the art world has landed in Miami for another Art Basel bacchanal. But along with the carefree glamour of the galas and the private parties, trepidation hangs in the air—whether it’s acknowledged or not. With rising tides, both symbolic and real, increasingly threatening the art world’s private paradise, we are caught between anxiety and blissful disbelief, ruefully letting the champagne flow every December, until, one year, we might be waiting on Collins Avenue for our Ubers in waist-high water. Here is some art to see in Miami that reflects our anxious times, and the promise that we may overcome them.

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  • At first glance, there’s little sign of any political unrest here on the sun-dappled, palm-lined streets of Miami Beach, where the art world has decamped for this city’s edition of Art Basel.

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  • Last year, preparing for the Labour Party Conference in his Brighton hotel room, Leader Jeremy Corbyn was snapped reclining in a mahogany chair – wearing a pair of open-toed sandals, underneath which were a pair of equally mahogany socks.

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  • In this article we bring you a selection of 10 opening exhibitions around the world. Our list includes an exhibition at Pace New York of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s recent paintings and installation work, there is Regarding the Forces of Nature: From Alma Thomas to Yayoi Kusama, an installation that features works by contemporary women artists at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, a project called An Unkindness by Mia Feuer that explores the relationships between human infrastructure and nature at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the exhibition Turner in Brighton at the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery centering on the recent acquisition of JMW Turner’s Brighthelmston, Sussex, and finally Julie Nord’s watercolor illustrations are up at the Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum in Aalborg, Denmark.

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  • The drawings in the DePaul Art Museum's group show "Drawn From Photography" are all based on photographic images, while the photographs by James Welling at Donald Young Gallery were inspired by the drawings and paintings of Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), a tremendously popular artist whose most famous works have been countlessly reproduced as posters and prints.

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  • "We live in a truly raucous visual culture," writes curator Sara Krajewski in her catalog essay on the Henry Art Gallery's show, "Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture."

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  • Richter, Gossaert, Gauguin, Baldessari, Lewitt, Haring, Philpsz, LaChapelle and more.

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  • Criticism, as they say, is autobiography, and I can freely admit that I may find Karl Haendel's soon-to-close show at Harris Lieberman moving because

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  • "We live in a truly raucous visual culture," writes curator Sara Krajewski in her catalog essay on the Henry Art Gallery's show, "Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture."

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  • Richter, Gossaert, Gauguin, Baldessari, Lewitt, Haring, Philpsz, LaChapelle and more.

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  • Criticism, as they say, is autobiography, and I can freely admit that I may find Karl Haendel's soon-to-close show at Harris Lieberman moving because

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  • The Whitney Biennial curators have chosen the 103 participants for this years exhibition. The show is the United States most important survey of emerging American art. The 2014 edition will take place March 7–May 25, 2014. It will be the last Biennial in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s building at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street before the Museum moves downtown to its new building in the spring of 2015. This is the 77th in the Museum’s ongoing series of Annuals and Biennials begun in 1932 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

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  • Urbanisms , a photo exhibition at the Contemplate Art Gallery, Avanashi Road is a study of Coimbatore, from a lensman's perspective.

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  • celebrating its 15th year of exhibiting experimental contemporary art, Locust Projects is presenting the exhibition High Performance Stiffened Structures by Los Angeles-based artist Karl Haendel.

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  • Why and how does Karl Haendel make and arrange these painstaking pencil drawings of existing images—of High Noon

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  • A few years ago Karl Haendel wrote down a list of questions he had always wanted to ask his father. For most of us, this would constitute an idle

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  • Art auctions are, supposedly, exciting. Nobody told the two dozen or so buyers gathered for the Christie's sale of contemporary art last week.

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  • This week is Chicago’s turn to show itself off in the global art fair circuit. The windy city will be host to EXPO Art Week, an all encompassing art celebration that will feature not only the International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, but also a city wide art and cultural celebration, not to mention two satellite art fairs. In a partnership with Chicago’s Tourism Board’s...

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  • In 1994, a student in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program created a collage about rape based on the work of feminist photojournalist Donna Ferrato.

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  • You don't look at anything directly in Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture. It's the big new show of remixed pictures by 12 contemporary artists

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BIOGRAPHY

Karl Haendel is an artist who makes drawings, installations, films, and public projects. He received a BA from Brown University in 1998 and a 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; and the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, MA. He has been the recipient of grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation and the California Community Foundation. He is represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NY and Wentrup, Berlin. He lives and works in Los Angeles.


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