Sorcha Dallas

Haendel’s meticulous drawings frequently attempt to locate the source within the endless circularity of signs. In simultaneously obscuring and exposing the way in which the familiar masquerades as the real, the relativity of truth in representation is interrogated. The appropriation of found imagery, often photographic in its origin, coupled with a salon-style manner of display, consciously forges multiple layers of meaning, and the simulacra spread, virus-like, throughout his installations. In adding to, rather than paring down, the complex relationships between object and viewer Haendel mines a rich vein of disparate sources and seeks to entangle and suspend the onlooker (and himself) in a thick web of associations, doffing his cap in turn to art history, language and the power of connotation.

Haendel was born in born in New York in 1976, and received a BA in Art semiotics and Art History at Brown University in 1998, before gaining a MFA at the Universitry of California in 2003. Since then he Haendel has had solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 2006, and Anna Helwing, Los Angeles in 2005 and 2003 respectively. He is currently exhibiting within the group show ‘Uncertain States of America’, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Burnbaum and Gunnar B. Kvaran at the Serpentine Gallery, London, and was recently included in “Down by Law’, curated by the Wrong Gallery at the Whitney Museum, New york, 2006. This will be Haendel’s first European show. Haendel lives and works in Los Angeles and is represented by Anna Helwing Gallery.

PRIVATE VIEW SATURDAY 16th SEPTEMBER, 7-9PM. Until 14TH OCTOBER 2006 Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm or by appointment