Karl Haendel is a talented draftsman with a knack for realistically rending just about any subject with a pencil. His early works and installations featured arrays of appropriated imagery from myriad sources that were redrawn by hand and recontextualized through juxtaposition. He seems particularly interested in the relationship between positive and negative space. Lately, his subject matter has transitioned from objective representations of imagery culled from the news media to more subjective and personal images of the body, specifically, images of the artist's hands. The drawings of hands in Double Dominant can be thought of as portraits, as well as homages to his artistic colleagues. Continue reading...

Image: Karl Haendel, "Double Dominant" Part II, Installation view, Photo credit: Jeff McLane

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