Joel Handorff Paintings
b. 1944
Joel Handorff is a New York-based artist who has exhibited widely and is included in many collections, including the Weisman Art Museum. In the 1980s, he participated in the East Village art scene as an artist, curator and gallerist, running Dramatis Personae. Handorff has exhibited at the Terry Dintenfass Gallery, Harm Bouckaert Gallery and MoMA PS1. His work has been reviewed by Vivien Raynor of the New York Times and Theodore Wolff of the Christian Science Monitor. In 2012, Handorff received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. His work was exhibited at the Leslie-Lohman Museum’s seminal Interface show, which was curated by Walter Cessna, as well as the Jonathan Weinberg-curated Painting to Survive show at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition.
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Artist: Joel Handorff
Acrylic textile large painting:
American Pie
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Cotton, Acrylic
Painting of bouquet of flowers on fabric:
Rags II
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Textile, Cotton, Acrylic
Painting of flowers on fabric with sewn flower overlay on tulle:
Blue Mist
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Acrylic
Large Painting of bouquet of flowers on silk:
Egyptian Blue
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Abstract Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Silk, Synthetic, Acrylic
Painting of bouquet of flowers on linen:
Romanticism
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Painting of bouquet of flowers on fabric
rice paper:
Oriental Blue
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Silk, Synthetic, Acrylic, Rice Paper
Large Painting on raw canvas of Bouquet of Flowers:
America Blue
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
Painting of bouquet of flowers on layers of rice paper:
Bouquet
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Rice Paper
Painting of bouquet of flowers on Canvas:
Spring
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Acrylic
Painting of bouquet of flowers on fabric and rice paper:
Dream Bouquet II
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Rice Paper
Painting of bouquet of flowers on rice paper:
Chinese Red
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Rice Paper
Large textile painting of bouquet of flowers:
Graffiti Mystery
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Textile, Cotton, Muslin
Painting of bouquet of flowers on fabric and rice paper:
Blue Table
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Acrylic, Rice Paper
Painting of flowers on rice paper:
Venetian Dream
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Rice Paper
Painting of bouquet of flowers on fabric:
Blue Ocean
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Acrylic
Painting of bouquet of flowers on layers of rice paper:
Yellow Backyard
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Rice Paper
Painting of Bouquet of flowers on canvas :
Red Pom Poms
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Painting of flowers on canvas:
Green Backyard
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Textile sewn on tulle painting:
Little Ghost
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Acrylic
Sewn, painted mixed media painting:
Transparent Overlay
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Textile, Cotton, Thread, Acrylic
Textile Painting of flowers:
Rags I
By Joel Handorff
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers becomes the subject—they bring to mind all of the flowers I have ever seen and all the ones I have seen in great works of art. They are a reflection, a kind of magic mirror, defying traditional paintings of flowers...
Category
2010s Contemporary Joel Handorff Paintings
Materials
Textile, Cotton, Acrylic
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