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On Friday, August 1st, the Danforth Museum of Art (DMA) opens Cynthia Handel’s latest body of work, Torso/Vessel and Other Objects. Handel, nationally and internationally known for her cast and fabricated metal sculpture, has returned to clay and a variety of alternative materials in this exhibit created specifically for the DMA.
Handel 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 willow branches, antlers, copper wire, copper tubing, steel plates, her childhood pink taffeta dress, or found or constructed furniture legs. 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.
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, and 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.
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, Phd.
The DMA located at 106 North Main St., will host an opening reception for Cynthia Handel: Torso/Vessel and Other Objects from 5 to 8 pm on Friday, August 1st. The exhibit will be open through September 28th. Admission to the Danforth Museum of Art is always free.
The DMA is open Tuesdays–Saturdays, Noon to 4 pm. They can be reached by phone at 406-222-6510 or on their website at thedanforth.org. The Danforth Museum of Art | Park County Friends of the Arts is a Registered Public Charity 501(c) (3) organization.
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