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Karl Haendel: Informal Family Blackmail
Installation view
Installation view

Karl Haendel
Shame, 2012
Shame, 2012
Book
Published by KLTB

Karl Haendel: Informal Family Blackmail
Installation view
Installation view

Karl Haendel: Informal Family Blackmail
Installation view
Installation view
Photo Credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Karl Haendel
Informal Family Blackmail, 2012
Informal Family Blackmail, 2012
Installation view, Gallery 2

Karl Haendel: Informal Family Blackmail
Installation view
Installation view

Karl Haendel: Informal Family Blackmail
Installation view
Installation view

Karl Haendel: Informal Family Blackmail
Installation view
Installation view

Karl Haendel: Informal Family Blackmail
Installation view
Installation view

Karl Haendel: Informal Family Blackmail
Installation view
Installation view

Karl Haendel
"Scheme (Football #5)," 2011
"Scheme (Football #5)," 2011
Pencil on paper
81

Karl Haendel
Long Black Coat, 2012
Long Black Coat, 2012
Pencil on paper
92" H x 45" W (233.68 cm H x 114.3 cm W)

Karl Haendel
Arab Spring, 2012
Arab Spring, 2012
Pencil on paper
59" H x 89" W (149.86 cm H x 226.06 cm W)

Karl Haendel
Lego White House, 2012
Lego White House, 2012
Pencil on paper
51.5" H x 79" W (130.81 cm H x 200.66 cm W)

Karl Haendel
Rubber Bands #9, 2011
Rubber Bands #9, 2011
Pencil on paper
68" H x 45" W (172.72 cm H x 114.3 cm W)

Karl Haendel
Abstract for 2011 #3, 2011
Abstract for 2011 #3, 2011
Pencil on paper
52" H x 72" W (132.08 cm H x 182.88 cm W)

Karl Haendel
WAC, 2012
WAC, 2012
Pencil on paper
87" H x 51" W (220.98 cm H x 129.54 cm W)

Karl Haendel
Wedding Geometry #2, 2012
Wedding Geometry #2, 2012
Pencil on paper
72" H x 45" W (182.88 cm H x 114.3 cm W)

Karl Haendel
Omega Point #2, 2012
Omega Point #2, 2012
Pencil on paper
51" H x 68" W (129.54 cm H x 172.72 cm W)

Karl Haendel
Lichtenstein #2, 2010
Lichtenstein #2, 2010
Pencil on paper
96" H x 72" W (243.84 cm H x 182.88 cm W)

Karl Haendel
Knight #8, 2011
Knight #8, 2011
Pencil on paper
102

Karl Haendel
Knight #6, 2011
Knight #6, 2011
Pencil on paper
102

Karl Haendel
"Killing Pablo #8," 2012
"Killing Pablo #8," 2012
Pencil on paper
30

Karl Haendel
One, Two, Three, Four, 2012
One, Two, Three, Four, 2012
Pencil on paper
26

Karl Haendel
Large Ear, 2012
Large Ear, 2012
Pencil on paper
77.5

Karl Haendel
J. Edgar Hoover #3, 2012
J. Edgar Hoover #3, 2012
Pencil on paper
30
Press Release
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to present an installation with new drawings, a book and a film by Karl Haendel.A complex installation of walls, doorways and backrooms reconfigures the flow of the gallery’s architecture and serves as a backdrop for a psychologically layered exhibition. Revolving around emotions of insecurity, doubt and regret, the works in the exhibition respond to larger socio-economic shifts that are changing both the relationships between the sexes and the generational roles of parents and children. Haendel’s film “Questions to my Father”, a key work in the exhibition, features a range of young men asking questions that they would have liked to ask their fathers but never did. Carefully constructed, the film features these men head on, each asking one question at a time, in clustered groupings of questions that relate to each other. As the film progresses, a more coherent impression both of the sons and their fathers emerges. The film feels both honest and awkward at times as topics that are transcending the personal turn into a seismograph of a larger social and political framework.Alternating impressions of honesty and shame also permeate the drawings and the installation of a small, enclosed room with a table and a book at the very entrance of the gallery. Here, as in earlier exhibitions, Haendel juxtaposes images chosen from pop culture, news media, as well as texts from newspaper headlines to create a canon of voices where meaning and a larger sense of a personal and political reality emerges in the gaps between images. Haendel is not afraid to address classic philosophical ideas and conundrums, such as Change, Hope, Fear, Search, and Doubt.Karl Haendel earned his MFA at UCLA in 2003. Recent solo exhibitions include Yvon Lambert, Paris, France, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY, Lever House, New York, NY, and a “MOCA Focus Series” solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. His work has been included in recent group exhibitions at the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; the Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada ; the Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL; the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Bienal Pavillion, São Paulo, Brazil; the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; the Drawing Center, New York, NY; “Prospect II”, New Orleans, LA; the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; the New Museum, New York, NY; the Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico; the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; in the 2008 and 2004 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; among others. This is Karl Haendel’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is located at 6006 Washington Blvd in Culver City, 1 block west of La Cienega at Sentney Avenue. Gallery parking is available across the street from the gallery off of Sentney Avenue. Gallery Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11 am – 6 pm and by appointment.