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Audrey Handler

Hand-blown Glass and Paintings

Artist Statement .............Resume

Audrey Handler Images from 2012 exhibit

Audrey Handler, Red Hills, 2012, AH9, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 4" x 4", Maple frame 8" x 8"

Audrey Handler, River Run, 2012, AH5, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 4" x 4", Maple frame 8" x 8"

Audrey Handler, Desert Blooms, 2012, AH13, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 4" x 4", Dark Cherry frame 10 3/8" x 10 1/4"

Audrey Handler, Autumn in the Mountains, 2011, AH6
Glass paint fired on tile, image: 4" x 4", maple frame 8" x 8"

Audrey Handler, Prairie Grasses, 2012, AH26, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 6 " x 6", Maple frame 10 3/8" x 13"

Audrey Handler, Prairie Blooms, 2012, AH28, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 6 " x 6", Maple frame 13 1/4" x 13"

Audrey Handler, View Out My Window - Pond and Mountains, 2011, AH12, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 6 " x 6", Cherry frame 13 1/4" x 13"

Audrey Handler, Prairie Spring, 2012, AH22, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 4" x 4", frame 10 3/8" x 10 1/4"

Audrey Handler, The Bay, 2012, AH21, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 4" x 4", frame 10 3/8" x 10 1/4"

Audrey Handler, Door County Fence, 2012, AH10, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 4" x 4", frame 10 3/8" x 10 1/4"

Audrey Handler, View Out My Window - Fog on the Prairie, 2011, AH1
Glass paint fired on tile, image: 6 " x 6", Walnut frame: 11 3/8" x 11"

Audrey Handler, The Bridge Over the Stream, 2012, AH17, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 4" x 4", Dark cherry frame 10 3/8" x 10 1/4"

Audrey Handler, Dunes, 2012, AH11, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 4" x 4", frame 10 3/8" x 10 1/4"

Audrey Handler, Fly By, 2012, AH15, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 4" x 4", frame 10 3/8" x 10 1/4"

Audrey Handler, Mountain Stream, 2012, AH24, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 6 " x 6", Maple frame 10 3/8" x 13"

Audrey Handler, Gold Tree, 2011, AH4, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 4" x 4", Maple frame 8" x 8"

Audrey Handler, Golden Fall, 2012, AH27, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 6" x 8", frame 13 5/8" x 15 1/4"

Audrey Handler, The Lone Tree, 2012, AH25, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 6" x 8", frame 13 5/8" x 15 1/4"

Audrey Handler, The Mountain Lake, 2012, AH23, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 4" x 4", Dark cherry frame 8" x 8"

Audrey Handler, Meandering Stream, 2012, AH12, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 4" x 4", Blonde wood frame 10 3/8" x 10 1/4"

Audrey Handler, Door County Cliffs, 2012, AH14, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 4" x 4", Blonde wood frame 10 3/8" x 10 1/4"

Audrey Handler, Island, 2012, AH19, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 4" x 4", Blonde wood frame 10 3/8" x 10 1/4"

Audrey Handler, Approaching Storm, 2012, AH18, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 4" x 4", Blonde wood frame 10 3/8" x 10 1/4"

Audrey Handler, Three Trees, 2012, AH16, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 4" x 4", Blonde wood frame 10 3/8" x 10 1/4"

Audrey Handler, Twilight, 2012, AH19, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 4" x 4", Blonde wood frame 10 3/8" x 10 1/4"

Audrey Handler, Blown Glass Fruit Platter, 15" x 15" x 8"

Audrey Handler, Blown Glass Fruit Plate, 9" x 12" x 3 1/2"

Audrey Handler, Blown Glass Vegetable Plate, 8" x 11 1/2" x 3 1/2"

Audrey Handler, The Road Less Traveled, 2010, Blown glass & sterling silver, 15" x 8" x 10"

Audrey Handler, The Road Traveled, 2010, Blown glass & sterling silver, 15" x 8" x 12"

Audrey Handler, Pear in a Chair (Queen Anne), 2010,
Blown glass, sterling silver, Handcrafted chair & base with inlaid wood rug, 12 1/2" x 10 1/2"

Audrey Handler, Red and Green with Yellow Stripe Gold Spiderweb Platter
2009, Hand blown glass, 17" x 12"

Left: Audrey Handler, Red/Green with Yellow Stripe Gold Spiderweb Platter
2012, Hand blown glass, 17" x 12"
Right: Audrey Handler, Red/RedOrange with Yellow Stripe Gold Spiderweb Platter
1209, Hand blown glass, 12 1/2" x 10 1/2"

Audrey Handler, Violet Hills, 2009, AH3, Glass paint fired on tile
image: 4" x 4", maple frame 8" x 8"

Audrey Handler, Picture Within a Picture, 2011, AH8, Mixed Media
image: 4 3/8" x 3 7/8", Walnut frame: 9 1/8" x 9 1/8"

Audrey Handler, Apple and Cherry, 2011, AH7, Mixed Media
image: 4" x 3 1/4", Maple frame: 8 3/8" x 9 1/8"

Audrey Handler Hand Blown Glass

Audrey Handler, Aqua and Silver Leaf Melon , 2009, Hand blown glass, 5" x 4"

Audrey Handler, Clear over Cobalt Blue Fluted Paperweight, 2009
Hand blown glass, 2 1/4" x 3 3/4"d

Audrey Handler, Deep Blue Vase with Gold Leaf & Dichroic Glass, 2009
Hand blown glass, 5 1/2" x 2 3/4"d

Audrey Handler, Lavender Sky Landscape Vase, 2009
Hand blown glass, 5" x 3 3/4"d

Audrey Handler, Violet Gold with Dichroic Glass Vase, 2009
Hand blown glass, 5 1/2" x 3 "d

Audrey Handler, Small Red Apple with Gold Leaf, 2009
Hand blown glass, 3 1/2" x 2 1/2"d

Audrey Handler, Burnt Orange Amber Vase - Gold Leaf & Red Accents, 2009
Hand blown glass, 3 1/2" x 3"d

Audrey Handler, Amber Pitcher, 2009, Hand blown glass, 6" x 4"d

Audrey Handler, Clear Vase with areas of 2 reds & Gold Leaf, 2009, Hand blown glass, 4" x 3 1/8"d

Audrey Handler, Red-rim Gold Spiderweb Platter with 2 Blues, 2009, Hand blown glass, 7 1/2" x 11"d

Audrey Handler, Red-rim Gold Spiderweb Platter with 2 Blues, DETAILS

Audrey Handler, Red-rim Gold Spiderweb Platter with 2 Blues & Ruby, 2009, Hand blown glass, 8 1/4" x 13"

Audrey Handler, Red and Blue Platter with Gold Spiderweb, 2009, Hand blown glass, 11" x 11"

Audrey Handler, Medium Golden Orange Apple with Silver Swirls, 2009, Hand blown glass, 3" x 3" x 3"

Audrey Handler, Amber & Green Spiderweb Platter, 2009, Hand blown glass, 13 1/2" x 10"

Audrey Handler, Amber & Yellow Spiderweb Platter, 2009, Hand blown glass, 12" x 10 1/2"

Artist Statement

Audrey Handler

Artist Statement 2012

In addition to my single blown glass forms of fruit, glass platters and vases, I also create sculptural environments that make a comment on universal experiences usually on domestic themes. My research, ideas and concepts come from life observations. These sculptures are small worlds and landscape portraits with life-sized objects and sometimes tiny silver people. They create a surrealistic time and place. I also make bowls of realistic fruit and bowls of vegetables. My sculptures combine wood and glass, a series I call "Pear
in a Chair" and "Wedding Pair". These are made with the collaboration of my husband John Martner who fabricates the tiny wood chairs and love seats. Painting with low fire glass paints and fusing them on tiles, glass and blown glass platters, creating landscapes of the prairie seen from my studio window, areas around Wisconsin and visions of landscapes from my many travels, has been a recent addition to my work in glass.
Our studio is an old renovated 2 story cheese factory with posters, photos and lots of space for my creative work. Along with a glass blowing studio on the first floor. My husbands wood shop and my painting studio are on the second floor.
"Artist Audrey Handler transforms scenes and objects from daily life into surrealistic theater." A quote from Bruce Pepich Director, Wustum Museum of fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin.

Resume

Audrey Handler

Artist Resume

CURRICULUM VITAE (selected)

PRESENT POSITION Artist-Teacher
I have been operating a private glass blowing studio since 1970 and teaching part-time at the
Madison Area Technical College 1973 to 1993 (painting, design and color, drawing
fundamentals, figure drawing, media fundamentals) as well as organizing conferences,
participating in workshops and producing slide shows and lectures.

EDUCATION
Temple University Tyler School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1952-1954
Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1954-1956 B.F.A.
University of Wisconsin, Department of Art, Madison, Wisconsin
1965-1967 M.S. 1968-1970 M.F.A.

TEACHING
Royal College of Art, London, England, Senior Research Fellow 1968
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina Summer 1971, 1972,
1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1985
Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, New Jersey Summer 1972
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine Summer 1973
Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana Summer 1975
University of Wisconsin-Extention, Drawing 1984
Madison Area Technical College, Madison, Wisconsin, Instructor, 1973 to 1993
Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, Michigan, Summer 1997

EXHIBITIONS
Royal College of Art, London, England, 1968
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan 1968
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1979
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin 1971, 1975, 1976, 1977
American Crafts Museum, New York, New York 1973, 1974, 1976, 1980
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1973
Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida 1973
Renwick Gallery, National Collection of Fine Art, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington D.C. 1973, 1980
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York 1973, 1976, 1977, 1979
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California 1974
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California 1974
Fairtree Gallery, New York, New York 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976
Bergstrom Museum, Neenah, Wisconsin 1976
Anglo-American Art Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1976
Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Florence Duhl Gallery, New York, New York 1977
Oklahoma Arts Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 1978
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas 1978
Krannert Arts Museum, Champaign, Illinois 1978
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin 1978
Greenville County Art Museum, Greenville, South Carolina 1980
Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1969,1981,1985,1986,1987
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York 1980, 1981
The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Calif. 1981
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England 1981
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France 1982
Seibu Museum, Tokyo, Japan 1982
Philadelphia Museum of Art 1982
Elvehjem Art Museum, Madison, Wisconsin 1984
Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark 1986
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, Letters, Madison, Wisconsin 1988
(one-person show, “Audrey Handler”)
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI 1988
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan 1988
Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Shimonoseki, Japan 1988
Daimaru Grand Hall, Tokyo, Japan 1988
The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan 1989
Daimaru Museum, Osaka, Japan 1989
One Person Show, The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland 1990
The Bradley Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1986, 1987, 1990
Featured artist, Edgewood Orchard Galleries, Fish Creek WI 1991,93,95,98
Charles A.Wustum Museum, of Fine Art Racine, WI 1997, 1998
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI 1997, 1998
Penland Gallery at Penland School of Crafts, Penland NC 1999 to 2004
Wisconsin Glass Masters, Invitational , The Fairfield Public Gallery,
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin 2000
“The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience” The Mint Museum of Craft and Design,
Charlotte, North Carolina 2004
“Wisconsin Glass Invitational” Zazen Gallery, Paoli WI 2006
“Women of Glass” Overture Center for the Performing Arts,
Madison, Wisconsin 2008
“Feast for the Eyes Invitational” Center for Visual Arts,
Wausau, Wisconsin 2008-2009
“Big Ideas / Small Packages : Magnificent Glass Under 20",
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, Wisconsin 2008-2009
“Not So Still Life”, Racine Art Museum, Racine Wisconsin 2010
Grace Chosy Gallery, Glass and Paintings Madison, Wisconsin 2012
“Glass / 30 –– 40- 50 Philabaum Glass Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2012
30th Anniversary of Philabaum Glass Gallery
40 Years each of these artists have worked in glass
50th Anniversary of the American Studio Glass Movement
“Spark and Flame” : 50 years of Art Glass and The University of Wisconsin Madison 2012, Chazen
Museum of Art, Madiso,WI
“Bergstrom Mahler Museum Glass show”, “The Legacy of Littleton and his Students”
Bergstrom Mahler Museum, Neenah Wisconsin 2012

COLLECTIONS
Greenville County Art Museum, Greenville, South Carolina
Royal College of Art, London, England
Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach, Florida
Hastings College Glass Collection, Hastings, Nebraska
Lobmeyr Museum, Vienna, Austria
Glasmuseum Frauenau, Frauenau, Germany
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan 1980
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York 1981
“The Collection of Modern International Glass Art” Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark 1986
Bachmann Collection, Madison WI 1988
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin 1987, 1993
American Crafts Museum, New York City, New York
George and Dorothy Saxe Collection
Toledo Museum, Toledo, Ohio
Bergstrom - Mahler Museum, Neenah, Wisconsin 1998
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin 1999
Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin 2010

GRANTS FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS, BOOKS
City of Philadelphia, Art Scholarship, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1952
Royal College of Art, London, England, Senior Research Fellow, 1967-1968
National Endowment for the Arts, Master Craftsmen’s Apprenticeship Program Grant,
1977 and 1981
Awarded Honorary Life Member of the Glass Art Society March 17, 1994
“New Glass Review”#1,1978 and #16,1995 Corning Glass Museum, Corning, NY
“Women Working In Glass” Lucartha Kohler’s book 2003
“American Studio Glass 1960 –– 1990" Martha Drexler Lynn’s book 2000

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