Audrey Handler

American, born 1934

BiographyAudrey Handler was a trained painter with a MFA from the Boston University School of Fine & Applied Arts when she came across Harvey Littleton’s Glass Lab at the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1962. She knew immediately that working with glass was something she, “just had to do.” As one of Harvey’s first students, her work explored the thick, sculptural forms that pervaded the Studio Glass Movement. In 1970 she opened her own studio in Wisconsin, which is noted as one of the longest running studios in the US. An active member in the development of the glass community, she was one of the founders of the Glass Art Society in 1971. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US at institutions including; The Renwick Galleries, Corning Museum of Glass, San Francisco Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and many more. She has exhibited internationally at many institutions including, Victoria and Albert Museum, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, and Musée des Arts Decoratifs. As a glass artist, her work is deeply connected with real-life observations that she expresses in small sculptural worlds. In addition to her single blown glass work of fruits, platters and vases she creates sculptural installations that resonate with domestic themes. In 2014 she received the esteemed Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award, an honor formerly bestowed on the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright and Georgia O’Keeffe.

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