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July Issue 2005
Center for the Arts in Rock Hill, SC, Features Works by Murry Handler
This
summer, the Dalton Gallery features works by North Carolina artist
Murry Handler. Handler studied at the Franklin Institute of Art
in New York and with artists Joseph Kelly and Joseph Hirsch. He
has exhibited throughout North Carolina and New England and taught
at the Parsons School of Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology
in New York. As a visual artist, Handler challenges the viewers
to bring meaning to a piece or simply accept it as a reality.
Handlers work will be on display at the Center for the Arts in
Rock Hill, SC, from July 4 through Aug. 15, 2005.
Included in the show is a series of serigraph prints, colorful acrylic paintings and a stunning new work exploring a transition in dimension. The piece consists of two 5' x 5' canvases placed side by side. The first canvas is painted with flat shapes and the second is a canvas from which the shapes have fallen onto the floor to become three-dimensional shapes. The three-dimensional piece allows the viewer to walk around the object, to see all sides of the shapes and to even touch them. The viewer can thus accept the "transition in dimension" as presented by the artist.
Handler's style has undergone a transition as well. Exploring realism in the 1960s, he has shifted to turbulent expressionism in the 70s and 80s. He has recently achieved a freedom in his abstract work not possible with detailed realism. "I wanted to allow my emotions to dictate what happened on the canvas, not a photographic image or an obvious scene, but emotions from them and everything else around me," Handler said.
For further information
check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Center at
803/328-2787 or at (www.rockhillarts.org).
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