• Overview
    He cites one of his main motivators is to paint something his son admires and would be proud of.

    Adam Handler was born in Queens NY and grew up on Long Island. As a young child and adolescent, he spent countless hours at his grandparents' framing factory in New York City. There, his passion for the arts grew and it became inevitable that he too would discover the many possibilities of art.

    Using acrylic paint, oil stick, pencil, and markers, Handler’s child-like and passionate drawing technique produces distinctive outlined characters which almost appear flat, with little to no depth of field. The backgrounds of his works are highly detailed, but rough, vigorously drawn with scratches and markings that appear to spill over the edge of the canvas, conveying a hurried and improvised feeling. Willem De Kooning’s works provided Handler with an “ah-ha” moment: a figure does not have to look like a figure, but can rather reflect the qualities of one. Handler’s large-scale imaginative figures connect viewers to a feeling of warm nostalgia, or even a sense-memory from days long ago.

  • Works
    • Lost In A Space Garden Abduction
      Lost In A Space Garden Abduction
    • Need You Near Me Abduction
      Need You Near Me Abduction
    • You Are The Best Pajama Girl
      You Are The Best Pajama Girl
    • Ghost Abduction in Bizarro World
      Ghost Abduction in Bizarro World
    • In a Misty Blaze Girl
      In a Misty Blaze Girl
    • Lost Blue Ghost Buddies
      Lost Blue Ghost Buddies
    • Pale Celery Ghost Buddies
      Pale Celery Ghost Buddies
    • Pale September Ghost
      Pale September Ghost
    • Toki Girl and the Great Fish battle Nothing Up Here
      Toki Girl and the Great Fish battle Nothing Up Here
    • “Ghost Abduction” Rug
      “Ghost Abduction” Rug
    • Hourglass Girl
      Hourglass Girl
    • Sign Girl
      Sign Girl
    • Tangerine Girl and The Eagle King
      Tangerine Girl and The Eagle King
    • Toki Girl during the Great Battle
      Toki Girl during the Great Battle
    • Flower Girl
      Flower Girl
    • Into the Wild
      Into the Wild
    • Me and the Devil
      Me and the Devil
    • Whispering Faces
      Whispering Faces