Karl Haendel (1976) is originally from New York City and is currently based in Los Angeles. He earned his bachelor's degree in Art Semiotics and Art History from Brown University in 1998. Then, he obtained his MFA from the University of California Los Angeles in 2003. Haendel's practice revolves around the appropriation of visual signifiers and their recontextualization through drawing.  His works, often uncanny renderings, pointedly remove images from their original context— media publications, frozen food labels, medieval knights—and reconfigure them through scale, black and white tonality, and juxtaposition into a new of visual language. 

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