The Brand Library & Art Center is excited to announce the return of Art Talks at Brand this spring. This series invites contemporary artists to discuss their work and the issues surrounding it. Each talk will be followed by a moderated Q&A session led by Brand staff member, artist and writer Jennifer Remenchik. Remenchik is a Brand staff member and program moderator She is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. Remenchik began organizing art talks at Brand Library & Art Center to showcase artists who reflect the diversity of the greater Los Angeles art scene. 

The spring series will feature Los Angeles-based artists Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen, Catherine Menard and Danny Angel Escalante. The series is sponsored by the Brand Associates and is free and open to the public.

Thursday, March 19, 7 p.m. – Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen is a photographic artist whose work engages the American duality of aspiration and desperation, systems of power, the cinematic, and the abject. In her practice, she has developed a research-based, systematic approach to production by creating her own image database. She creates spaces where beauty becomes a form of confrontation and ornament becomes a language of dissent.

Thursday, April 2, 7 p.m. – Catherine Menard is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans single and multi-channel video, performance, site-responsive installation, expanded painting, and sculpture. Rather than treating these mediums as discrete outputs, she choreographs them as interdependent components – image, sound, object and body – within immersive environments calibrated to the architecture, circulation paths, and acoustics of a given site, approaching the conditions of a Gesamtkunstwerk or “total work.”

Thursday, April 16, 7 p.m. – Danny Angel Escalante engages in an art practice that explores the quotidian, ranging from the phenomenological every-day to the historical class associations and experiences of the brown body. Inspired by historical works, his Catholic upbringing, indigenous heritage, and contemporary politics, Escalante creates drawings and sculptures that distill the body into gestures, marks, and traces.