Audrey Handler

medium: glass

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Fall Vase (Vase with Branches) 2006 Glass	Spring Vase 2007 Glass	Pear in a Chair 2007 Glass
Wedding Pair 2007 Glass	Ruby Apple 2007 Glass	Spiderweb Plate 2006 Glass
Bowl of Fruit 2006 Glass

Contact information
7560 Marsh View Rd.
Verona, WI 53593
Phone Number: 608-845-8542
Email Address: audhandler@charter.net
Web site: audreyhandlerglass.com

Artist statement
I create bowls of glass fruit and vegetables, single pieces of glass fruit and vegetables, and glass vases and plates. The glass plates are highly decorative and use a spiderweb pattern to create an air of mystery. The opaque vases have winter, spring and fall motifs called "Vases with Branches."

My sculptures are a combination of wood and glass called "Pear in a Chair" and "Wedding Pair." Tiny chairs and love seats are fabricated of wood made by my husband John Martner, and are mated with my life-sized glass pears, apples, cherries and petite glass wedding gifts.

The larger wood and glass sculptures are small worlds, landscape portraits with life-sized objects and tiny silver and gold people to create a surrealistic time and place.

My research, ideas and concepts come from my own life experiences. They are personal statements and universal comments on life.

Biography
I have owned a private glass blowing studio since 1970. I have taught at Madison Area Technical College (MATC), Penland School of Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Royal Collge of Art, London and other craft schools, workshops and lectures.

Past exhibition venues include: Toledo Museum, John Michael Kohler Art Center, American Crafts Museum, Lowe Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, National Collection of Fine Art, Corning Museum, Bergstrom Museum, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Milwaukee Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Wustum Museum, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan, Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Japan.

Collections: Corning Museum of Glass, Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Charles A. Wustum Museum, Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark, Lobmeyr Museum, Vienna, Austria, Greenville County Art Museum.

National Endowment for the Arts Master Craftsman's grant 1977, 1981, Honorary Life Member of the Glass Art Society 1994, Corning Museum "New Glass Review" 1978, 1995, Featured in Lucartha Kohler's Book "Women Working In Glass."