TORSO/ VESSEL AND OTHER OBJECTS

By Cynthia Handel

Sponsored by Danforth Museum of Art

• 23 mixed-media sculptures and drawings
• Size: 9″ x 12″ x 5″ – 44″ x 60″ x 2″
• Crates: 13, 24″ x 13″ x 10 – 48″ x 66″ x 8″
• Availability: January 2027 – December 2029
• Booking Fee: 4 – 6 weeks $750/ 7 – 12 weeks $1000
• Integrative Resources: Artist willing to travel for artist talk, lectures, workshops. Exhibition catalog available.

EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION

 Torso/Vessel and Other Objects is an exhibition of Cynthia Handel’s recent work. Handel, nationally and internationally known for her cast and fabricated metal sculpture, uses the abstracted ceramic form of her own headless bust as the foundation for these wildly crafted multimedia works. Many of the pieces are presented with the artist’s sketchbook drawings and include found objects such as willow branches, antlers, copper wire, copper tubing, steel plates, her childhood pink taffeta dress, or found or constructed furniture legs. By using her own torso as the common motif, Handel blurs the space between memories, dreams and family history. Her work is an extension of her hands and is inspired by her intuition, feelings, and nature’s form.

“ Dancing, moving, exploring, Handel’s elegant vagabond nature, profuse and endearing, is evident in all of her current sculptures. They are both an extension of her previous work about form and place and a step into a journey that has migrated inward with an explosion of emotional presence.” – Michele Coriel, Art Historian and author of Montana Modernists

Cynthia Handel is a contemporary multi-media artist, performance artist, and educator. Handel has taken part in numerous international art related panels. She has participated as a sculptor at the USUK Iron Sculpture Symposium (2012), and has held residencies at the Berllanderi Sculpture Workshop, Wales, the Franconia Outdoor Sculpture Park, Minnesota. She has presented her work internationally at the College Art Association and International Sculpture Conferences. Handel’s work has been exhibited in Poland, Germany, France, the UK, Latvia, China and numerous cities in the US including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.