March 30 - June 1, 2024
From Lora Reynolds Gallery:
“Lora Reynolds is pleased to announce Love and Capital, an exhibition of graphite drawings (that sometimes include ink) by Karl Haendel—the artist’s first show at the gallery.
Haendel’s drawings—sometimes modestly scaled, often gigantic, installed unconventionally (high, low, salon style and solo, across corners, snaking onto the ceiling)—are mostly rendered in a striking photorealistic style. They play with a wide range of imagery: from medieval suits of armor, big cats and dead bees, human hands, oversized scribbles, introspective and deeply vulnerable texts, embodied punctuation, portraits of famous politicians, barrel-racing girls on horseback, all manner of cartoons, to aerial views of flooded neighborhoods and the rotunda at the Texas State Capitol. (He wants to make work that’s approachable from many angles, that’s as thin on pretension as possible, that you don’t need advanced degrees to engage with.) Haendel’s drawings look inward, to probe at his most intimate fears and insecurities, as well as outward, toward the many contradictions that frame our cultural/political/historical realities. All the while, he is asking himself: How do I put more good into the world than bad?”
Reception: March 30, 2024 | 6–8 pm
Lora Reynolds Gallery (West Sixth Street)
1126 West Sixth Street
Austin, 78703 Texas
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