Art Talk Tuesdays is an initiative of Brand Library & Art Center in which we invite contemporary artists to discuss their work and the issues that surround it, followed by a moderated discussion with Los Angeles artist and writer Jennifer Remenchik. This program is free and open to the public. This month join us for an artist talk and discussion with Karl Haendel, whose work is anchored in the production of large, labor-intensive pencil drawings, but also includes installation, film and public projects. Haendel sees drawing as a medium that is undervalued, relatable and democratic, and he appreciates it for its affordability, lack of pretense, ease of storage, and small carbon footprint. Conceptually drawing also feels right to Haendel, as it is visually appealing without being indulgent, allowing him to foreground the conceptual, linguistic and political content that Haendel believes art can communicate so well. Haendel thinks of his drawings not as individual works, but more like pieces of language arrayed on the wall that syntactically need each other in order to function. For this reason he usually shows his work as groups of drawings in installation form. Through juxtaposition and order, with help from the delicate virtuosity of the drawing surface, Haendel slows viewers down, hopefully challenging them to think about how images shape our conceptions. Karl Haendel 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; The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, MA, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway. 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, Wentrup, Berlin. He lives and works in Los Angeles. Jennifer Remenchik is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles, CA. She graduated from California Institute of the Arts with her MFA in Art in 2015 and the University of Texas at Austin with her BFA in Studio Art in 2009. Her work has been exhibited in 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.