Gallery Ehva features contemporary Provincetown art and offers 2-week long off-season residency program. To celebrate it's 5th year Gallery is adding new year-round program Art Haven Workshops. Spring Hours Thur-Sunday
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Ewa Nogiec, Director
508 487-0011
art@galleryehva.com
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Artists represented by Gallery Ehva:
Stephen Aiken
Tracey Anderson
Barbara Cohen
Didier Corallo
Rob DuToit
Wendelin Glatzel
Irén Handschuh
Alicia Henry
Ken Horii
Jenny Humphreys
René Lamadrid
Susan Lyman
Ewa Nogiec
Janice Redman
Christina Schlesinger
Richard E. Smith
Rob Westerberg
Cyndi Wish
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Guest Artists at Gallery Ehva:
Midge Battelle
Donna Dodson
Peter Madden
Efrem Marder
Jane Paradise
David Paulson
Dominique Pecce
Miriam Laufer
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Gallery Ehva + Art Heaven Workshops
74 Shank Painter Road
P.O. Box 1426
Provincetown, MA 02657
508 487-0011
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Irén Handschuh
Sculpture is my self-defense.
Irén Handschuh, studio portrait, 2010
Irén Handschuh (l) with Norma Holt
"Equilibre" by Irén Handschuh
"Tilter" by Irén Handschuh
Mobile (Red), glass, wood, steel
Dalle & solder
Dalle & solder
Dalle & solder
Dalle & solder
Biography
Born and educated in Paris, Iren Handschuh (b. 1951) immigrated to the United States in 1971. She has worked as a furniture and cabinetmaker as well as in general construction in the area of Boston, Cape Cod and the Islands. Since the 1980s, she has worked as a sculptor. She has also taught sculpture at the Fine Art Work Center in Provincetown and at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. Handschuh has participated in many group exhibits and her work has also been featured in one-person shows. Her sculpture is in various private collections as well as in the permanent collection of the DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park.
Artist’s Statement
Sculpture is my self-defense. Making it allows me to function in a world that I feel is beyond my control and at times overwhelming, enabling me to create an alternate universe where I feel empowered and where I find relief from ‘reality’ and the material/physical world. I was born to cut – whether it be wood, construction materials, or glass. I devote much effort to and derive great pleasure in the pursuit of fine craftsmanship.
I am inspired by Surrealism and feel an affinity with abstraction and the absurd. I have an interest for the “mechanical aspect of sculpture – structure, rotation, and balance... The small scale of my work reflects an instinctual affinity for the miniature or diminutive, but also answers the practical necessities of a life that requires portability, travel, and moving… I must be able to carry tools and materials in a suitcase.
artist website: irenhandschuh.com
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