Dogs & Dads

Dogs & Dads

July 13 – August 24, 2024

Opening Reception for the artists: Saturday, July 13th from 6:00 – 9:00 pm

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Diane Rosenstein Gallery is pleased to announce Dogs & Dads – a thematic exhibition about dogs and dads (and anger and patriarchy) – with works by Karl Haendel, Taylor Marie Prendergast, and David Sipress.  The exhibition will include drawings, paintings, and video; and opens Saturday, July 13th with a reception for the artists from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm.

We thank Vielmetter Los Angeles for their kind assistance with this exhibition. 

Artists:

Taylor Marie Prendergast (USA, b. 1990) is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist who works in painting, drawing, video and performance. Born and raised in Southern California, she studied at CalArts (2013) and the San Francisco Art Institute (2012). Prendergast is mostly known for her monochromatic palette, vigorous gesture, and direct depictions of her subjects. Her work explores themes of peril (both domestic and psychological), and often provokes a complex response. Since 2017, Prendergast has exhibited paintings and drawings in solo and group exhibitions with Carlye Packer, Half Gallery and One Trick Pony (among others), in Los Angeles; with Stems Gallery in Paris, and LVL3 in Chicago. The artist lives and works in Los Angeles.

David Sipress (USA, b. 1947) graduated from Williams College and went on to a master’s program in Russian History at Harvard before leaving to pursue a career as a cartoonist. His first cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1998. Since then, he has published over seven hundred cartoons in the magazine. His cartoons have also been published in the Boston Phoenix, Time, Parade, Playboy, Funny Times, the Washington Post, Harper’s, and numerous other publications. In 2016, Sipress won the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award for Gag Cartooning.  David’s essays have appeared on newyorker.com; and his essay, ‘Stop Thief!’ (2020), is a humorous account of his response to the appropriation of his cartoons by the artist Karl Haendel, whose work appears alongside David’s in this exhibition. His memoir, WHAT’S SO FUNNY?, was published in 2022. A lifetime New Yorker, David lives in Brooklyn with his wife Ginny Shubert, an attorney and activist who works on issues of housing and health. 

Karl Haendel (USA, b. 1976) is an artist who makes drawings, installations, films, and public projects. He received a BA from Brown University in 1998 and a MFA from UCLA in 2003, in addition to attending the Whitney Independent Study Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He will be the subject of solo museum exhibitions at the Kimball Art Center (Park City) later this year and the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art (Los Angeles) in 2025. He has had solo shows at Human Resources (Los Angeles), Locust Projects (Miami), Museo de Arte de El Salvador, MOCA (Los Angeles), and Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City). He has been included in the Biennial of the Americas (2015), Whitney Biennial (2014), Biennale de Lyon (2013), Prospect New Orleans (2011), and California Biennial (2008, 2004). His work can be found in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (Oslo), Colección Jumex (Mexico City), Collection Lambert (Avignon), Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Museum of Modern Art (New York), Pérez Art Museum (Miami), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and Whitney Museum of American Art (New York). He has received grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation and the California Community Foundation. Haendel lives and works in Los Angeles.