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AUDREY HANDLER
105 South Rock Road
Madison, Wisconsin 53705
HANDLER GLASS STUDIO
7560 Marsh View Road
Verona, Wisconsin 53593
(608) 712-3205
E-Mail: audreyhandlerglass@gmail.com
Web Site: www.AudreyHandlerGlass.com
PRESENT POSITION Artist-Teacher
I have been operating a private glass blowing studio since 1970 and taught part-time at the Madison College, 1973 to 1993 (painting, design and color, drawing fundamentals, figure drawing, media fundamentals) as well as organizing workshops and glass conferences, participating in workshops and producing slide shows and lectures. National Glass Advisory Council member, Bergstrom- Mahler Museum of Glass 2012 to present.
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 and Lectures
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 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,
Corning Museum of Glass, “New Glass, A Worldwide Survey” 1979, 2019
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
“Glass ‘79” International Glass Exhibition 1979
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, Wisconsin
1991, 1993, 1995, 1998
Charles A. Wustum Museum, of Fine Art Racine, Wisconsin 1997, 1998
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah, Wisconsin 1997, 1998
Penland Gallery at Penland School of Crafts, Penland , North Carolina
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 Wisconsin 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 of Glass, Neenah, Wisconsin 2008-2009
“Not So Still Life”, Racine Art Museum, Racine Wisconsin 2010
“Glass / 30 – 40- 50” Philabaum Glass Gallery, Tucson, Arizona 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, Madison, Wisconsin
“The Legacy of Littleton and his Students” Bergstrom Mahler Museum,
Neenah Wisconsin 2012
“Handle with Care: Recent Acquisitions in Glass”, Racine Art Museum
Racine Wisconsin 2012
“Anti:Fragile Contemporary Glass” Museum Of Wisconsin Art,
West Bend, Wisconsin 2013
“Contemporary American Studio Glass” from the collection of Eugene Fleischer,
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA 2015
“Glass Show, purchased by Dr. James and Karen Hyde” from the MOWA
collection, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin 2015
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin “Duets” 2016
Beloit Fine Arts Incubator. Group Fine Art Show, Beloit, Wisconsin 2016
14 South Artists Group painting show, Univ. of Wisconsin Hospital
Gallery, Madison, WI 2017
“Searching for Excellence” Bergstrom Mahler Museum of Glass,
Neenah, Wisconsin 2017
Wisconsin Visual Artists exhibition, Univ. of Wisconsin Hospital Gallery,
Madison, Wisconsin 2017
Gallery of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin Group Show 2018
“Sharper Edges”, Women Working on the Edge of Glass, Bergstrom Mahler
Museum of Glass, Neenah, Wisconsin 2018 to 2019
“New Glass Now: Context”, Corning Museum of Glass
Corning New York, 2019, 2020
“Wisconsin Ideas, Global Influences, Bergstrom Mahler Museum of Glass,
2019 to 2020
“Recent Acquisitions”, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin 2021,
“60 Years of Studio Glass”, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia 2022
“Audrey Handler, 1965 to 2020” display at Chazen Museum of Art, Madison,
Wisconsin, 2023
“Women’s Narrative”, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin 2023
“Women in Glass”, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin 2023
“Wisconsin Artists, A Survey: 19 60 – 1990” Racine Art Museum, Racine,
Wisconsin 2024
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
Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, New York
Reference Study Collection 1977
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan 1980
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York 1981, 2017
“The Collection of Modern International Glass Art”
Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark 1986
Bachmann Collection, Madison Wisconsin 1988
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin 1987, 1993, 2012
American Crafts Museum, New York City, New York
George and Dorothy Saxe Collection
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin 1999
Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin 2010, 2019
Toledo Museum collection, Toledo, Ohio 2016
The Henry Ford American Glass Collection, Henry Ford Museum,
Deerborn, Michigan 2017
Paul and Elmerina Parkman Collection donated to
The Corning Museum of Glass 2017
Dr. James And Karen Hyde Collection, purchased for the
Museum of Wisconsin Art, 2018, 2019
Bergstrom Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah, Wisconsin
Recent sculpture purchase 1998, 2019
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin 2020, Historic Sculpture purchase
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia 2020, Historic Sculpture Purchase
Private Collections
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, MEMBERSHIPS
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
National Council on Education and the Ceramic Arts, Board Member,
Site Coordinator, Madison, Wisconsin Conference 1973
Awarded: Honorary Life Member of the Glass Art Society, March 17, 1994
Board Member of the Glass Art Society, Site Coordinator, Program Chairperson,
Recording Secretary, 1976 to 1980
“New Glass Review” # 1 1978, #16 1995, #43 2023 Corning Glass Museum,
Corning New York
World Craft Council Conference Delegate, Hokkaido, Japan and
Vienna, Austria 1980
Wisconsin Gallery Artists Advisory Board, Milwaukee Museum of Art Gallery
1980
National Glass Advisory Council Member, Bergstrom Mahler Museum of Glass
2012 to present
Awarded: Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award, May 16th, 2014
Books, articles, and videos
“Glass State of the Art”, Ferdinand Hampson 1984
“Contemporary Glass”, Susanne K. Frantz 1989
“Glass Focus Interviews Audrey Handler, at the Edgewood Orchard Gallery 1990
Published by Beverly Copeland and Associates
“Women Working In Glass” Lucartha Kohler 2003
“American Studio Glass 1960 – 1990” Martha Drexler Lynn 2004
“Women in International Studio Glass: 1950’s – 1980”s Debra Ruzinsky 2012
“Audrey Handler, a video interview” for The Glass Art Society archives 2010
“Shaping a Life in Glass: 2014, video Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Wisconsin
“Studio Glass” Glass Collection of Eugene Fleischer 2015
“Forward Motion, First in Glass” a video on Youtube filmed in the
University of Wisconsin Glass Lab with Professor Helen Lee circa 2015
The Urban Glass Art Quarterly page 61 and 64 Article by William Warmus,
“A curator looks back at a seminal world survey of glass art” 2019
“My Favorite Thing”, Corning Museum News by Colleen McFarland Rademaker,
Rakow Research Library, Corning New York 2019
“The Chrysler Museum, Summer 2022 News” article by Carolyn Swan Needell
“The Hyde Collection: Studio Glass Movement in Wisconsin” article by Davira Taragin
“Power in Numbers” Urban Glass Quarterly June 2022, Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez
“A Creative Place” The History of Wisconsin Art , by Thomas Lidke and
Annemarie Sawkins Book Sponsored by The Cedarburg Art Museum, Cedarburg,
Wisconsin 2022
Artist’s Statement:
I 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 cast sterling silver and gold people. They create a surrealistic time and place. I also make bowls of realistic fruit and bowls of vegetables. My sculptures combine glass, precious metal and wood. "Pear in a Chair" and "Wedding Pair sculptures were created with the collaboration of my late husband John Martner who fabricated the tiny wood chairs and love seats. Painting with low fire glass paints and fusing them on tiles, glass and blown glass, 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. My studio is an old 1890’s renovated cheese factory with posters, photos and lots of space for my creative work. Along with a glass blowing studio on the first floor, my wood shop and my painting studio are on the second floor.
Reviews:
Bruce Pepich Director, Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine,Wisconsin.
"Artist Audrey Handler transforms scenes and objects from daily life into surrealistic theater. " Handler’s juxtaposing insect-sized figures with life-sized fruit injects an air of wit, where people dash about amid giant fruit and tableware. The viewer finds an amusing and elegant surrealistic world reminiscent of the businessmen and fruit found in the paintings of Rene Magritte.”
Paul Vickers Gardner Curator Emeritus and Former Consultant,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
“This talented artist’s sculptural concepts reveal a keen insight and interest in our everyday lives. In fact, she puts real life into “Still-Life.”
James Auer Art critic, the Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, WI
“Audrey Handler creates bizarre Lilliputian landscapes that evoke universal human emotions and experiences. Combined with a neat sense of humor, it permits her to invest her work with a cutting satirical edge, to the point where her miniaturized depictions … of scenes … become winning little exercises in small – town surrealism.”
105 South Rock Road
Madison, Wisconsin 53705
HANDLER GLASS STUDIO
7560 Marsh View Road
Verona, Wisconsin 53593
(608) 712-3205
E-Mail: audreyhandlerglass@gmail.com
Web Site: www.AudreyHandlerGlass.com
PRESENT POSITION Artist-Teacher
I have been operating a private glass blowing studio since 1970 and taught part-time at the Madison College, 1973 to 1993 (painting, design and color, drawing fundamentals, figure drawing, media fundamentals) as well as organizing workshops and glass conferences, participating in workshops and producing slide shows and lectures. National Glass Advisory Council member, Bergstrom- Mahler Museum of Glass 2012 to present.
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 and Lectures
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 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,
Corning Museum of Glass, “New Glass, A Worldwide Survey” 1979, 2019
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
“Glass ‘79” International Glass Exhibition 1979
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, Wisconsin
1991, 1993, 1995, 1998
Charles A. Wustum Museum, of Fine Art Racine, Wisconsin 1997, 1998
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah, Wisconsin 1997, 1998
Penland Gallery at Penland School of Crafts, Penland , North Carolina
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 Wisconsin 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 of Glass, Neenah, Wisconsin 2008-2009
“Not So Still Life”, Racine Art Museum, Racine Wisconsin 2010
“Glass / 30 – 40- 50” Philabaum Glass Gallery, Tucson, Arizona 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, Madison, Wisconsin
“The Legacy of Littleton and his Students” Bergstrom Mahler Museum,
Neenah Wisconsin 2012
“Handle with Care: Recent Acquisitions in Glass”, Racine Art Museum
Racine Wisconsin 2012
“Anti:Fragile Contemporary Glass” Museum Of Wisconsin Art,
West Bend, Wisconsin 2013
“Contemporary American Studio Glass” from the collection of Eugene Fleischer,
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA 2015
“Glass Show, purchased by Dr. James and Karen Hyde” from the MOWA
collection, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin 2015
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin “Duets” 2016
Beloit Fine Arts Incubator. Group Fine Art Show, Beloit, Wisconsin 2016
14 South Artists Group painting show, Univ. of Wisconsin Hospital
Gallery, Madison, WI 2017
“Searching for Excellence” Bergstrom Mahler Museum of Glass,
Neenah, Wisconsin 2017
Wisconsin Visual Artists exhibition, Univ. of Wisconsin Hospital Gallery,
Madison, Wisconsin 2017
Gallery of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin Group Show 2018
“Sharper Edges”, Women Working on the Edge of Glass, Bergstrom Mahler
Museum of Glass, Neenah, Wisconsin 2018 to 2019
“New Glass Now: Context”, Corning Museum of Glass
Corning New York, 2019, 2020
“Wisconsin Ideas, Global Influences, Bergstrom Mahler Museum of Glass,
2019 to 2020
“Recent Acquisitions”, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin 2021,
“60 Years of Studio Glass”, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia 2022
“Audrey Handler, 1965 to 2020” display at Chazen Museum of Art, Madison,
Wisconsin, 2023
“Women’s Narrative”, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin 2023
“Women in Glass”, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin 2023
“Wisconsin Artists, A Survey: 19 60 – 1990” Racine Art Museum, Racine,
Wisconsin 2024
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
Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, New York
Reference Study Collection 1977
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan 1980
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York 1981, 2017
“The Collection of Modern International Glass Art”
Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark 1986
Bachmann Collection, Madison Wisconsin 1988
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin 1987, 1993, 2012
American Crafts Museum, New York City, New York
George and Dorothy Saxe Collection
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin 1999
Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin 2010, 2019
Toledo Museum collection, Toledo, Ohio 2016
The Henry Ford American Glass Collection, Henry Ford Museum,
Deerborn, Michigan 2017
Paul and Elmerina Parkman Collection donated to
The Corning Museum of Glass 2017
Dr. James And Karen Hyde Collection, purchased for the
Museum of Wisconsin Art, 2018, 2019
Bergstrom Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah, Wisconsin
Recent sculpture purchase 1998, 2019
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin 2020, Historic Sculpture purchase
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia 2020, Historic Sculpture Purchase
Private Collections
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, MEMBERSHIPS
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
National Council on Education and the Ceramic Arts, Board Member,
Site Coordinator, Madison, Wisconsin Conference 1973
Awarded: Honorary Life Member of the Glass Art Society, March 17, 1994
Board Member of the Glass Art Society, Site Coordinator, Program Chairperson,
Recording Secretary, 1976 to 1980
“New Glass Review” # 1 1978, #16 1995, #43 2023 Corning Glass Museum,
Corning New York
World Craft Council Conference Delegate, Hokkaido, Japan and
Vienna, Austria 1980
Wisconsin Gallery Artists Advisory Board, Milwaukee Museum of Art Gallery
1980
National Glass Advisory Council Member, Bergstrom Mahler Museum of Glass
2012 to present
Awarded: Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award, May 16th, 2014
Books, articles, and videos
“Glass State of the Art”, Ferdinand Hampson 1984
“Contemporary Glass”, Susanne K. Frantz 1989
“Glass Focus Interviews Audrey Handler, at the Edgewood Orchard Gallery 1990
Published by Beverly Copeland and Associates
“Women Working In Glass” Lucartha Kohler 2003
“American Studio Glass 1960 – 1990” Martha Drexler Lynn 2004
“Women in International Studio Glass: 1950’s – 1980”s Debra Ruzinsky 2012
“Audrey Handler, a video interview” for The Glass Art Society archives 2010
“Shaping a Life in Glass: 2014, video Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Wisconsin
“Studio Glass” Glass Collection of Eugene Fleischer 2015
“Forward Motion, First in Glass” a video on Youtube filmed in the
University of Wisconsin Glass Lab with Professor Helen Lee circa 2015
The Urban Glass Art Quarterly page 61 and 64 Article by William Warmus,
“A curator looks back at a seminal world survey of glass art” 2019
“My Favorite Thing”, Corning Museum News by Colleen McFarland Rademaker,
Rakow Research Library, Corning New York 2019
“The Chrysler Museum, Summer 2022 News” article by Carolyn Swan Needell
“The Hyde Collection: Studio Glass Movement in Wisconsin” article by Davira Taragin
“Power in Numbers” Urban Glass Quarterly June 2022, Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez
“A Creative Place” The History of Wisconsin Art , by Thomas Lidke and
Annemarie Sawkins Book Sponsored by The Cedarburg Art Museum, Cedarburg,
Wisconsin 2022
Artist’s Statement:
I 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 cast sterling silver and gold people. They create a surrealistic time and place. I also make bowls of realistic fruit and bowls of vegetables. My sculptures combine glass, precious metal and wood. "Pear in a Chair" and "Wedding Pair sculptures were created with the collaboration of my late husband John Martner who fabricated the tiny wood chairs and love seats. Painting with low fire glass paints and fusing them on tiles, glass and blown glass, 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. My studio is an old 1890’s renovated cheese factory with posters, photos and lots of space for my creative work. Along with a glass blowing studio on the first floor, my wood shop and my painting studio are on the second floor.
Reviews:
Bruce Pepich Director, Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine,Wisconsin.
"Artist Audrey Handler transforms scenes and objects from daily life into surrealistic theater. " Handler’s juxtaposing insect-sized figures with life-sized fruit injects an air of wit, where people dash about amid giant fruit and tableware. The viewer finds an amusing and elegant surrealistic world reminiscent of the businessmen and fruit found in the paintings of Rene Magritte.”
Paul Vickers Gardner Curator Emeritus and Former Consultant,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
“This talented artist’s sculptural concepts reveal a keen insight and interest in our everyday lives. In fact, she puts real life into “Still-Life.”
James Auer Art critic, the Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, WI
“Audrey Handler creates bizarre Lilliputian landscapes that evoke universal human emotions and experiences. Combined with a neat sense of humor, it permits her to invest her work with a cutting satirical edge, to the point where her miniaturized depictions … of scenes … become winning little exercises in small – town surrealism.”
