Art Talks at Brand Return This Spring in Glendale!
Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen, Untitled, 2026. Archival Pigment Print, 30 x 20 inches, Edition of 2 +1AP. Image courtesy of the artist
Spring series features Los Angeles-based artists Lani Trock, Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen, Catherine Menard, and Danny Angel Escalante.
The Brand Library & Art Center announced 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. The spring series will feature Los Angeles-based artists Lani Trock, 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.
Interdisciplinary artist Lani Trock kicked off the series March 5th. Lani’s practice centers in harmonious world-building. To awaken the collective imagination and actualize a new operating system for society, she works with organic sculptural materials to cultivate gentle environments, and invites visitors to contemplate from their unique voice and vision, how they would imagine the world at peace. Engaging with art as a spiritual practice, honoring the studio and gallery as spaces of devotion, she builds ephemeral altars and invites collaborators to activate them in joyful co-creation.
Thursday, March 19, 7:00 PM – 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, 7:00 PM – 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.”
Image courtesy of the artist.
Thursday, April 16, 7:00 PM – 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.
About Jennifer Remenchik
Brand staff member and program moderator Jennifer Remenchik 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.
Visit BrandLibrary.org/Art-Talks for more information on the artists in the Art Talks at Brand series as well as links to recordings of past programs.
About Library, Arts & Culture
Founded in 1907, the Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Department includes eight neighborhood libraries including the Brand Library & Art Center, a regional visual arts and music library and performance venue. Glendale Library Arts & Culture is supported in part through the efforts of the Glendale Library Arts & Culture Trust (GLACT). For more information visit GlendaleLAC.org, or contact Library, Arts & Culture at 818-548-2021 or via email at LibraryInfo@GlendaleCA.gov
About the City of Glendale & its Arts and Culture Commission
Known as the “Jewel City,” Glendale is the fourth largest city of Los Angeles County. With a population of more than 200,000, Glendale is a thriving cosmopolitan city that is rich in history, culturally diverse, and offers nearly 50 public parks, and easy access to a municipal airport. It is the home to a vibrant business community, with major companies in healthcare, entertainment, manufacturing, retail, and banking. Its Arts and Culture Commission administers a developer- funded program which is working to transform Glendale into an arts and culture destination for the Southern California region. The mission of the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission is to enrich the human experience, reinforce Glendale’s identity and civic pride through arts and culture, and to recognize the importance of arts to our quality of life and to the local economy. This is accomplished by consciously integrating arts and culture into the daily life of the people of Glendale through urban design, planning, economic development, and education. For more information about the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission see the website: GlendaleArtsandCulture.org.
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