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Adam Handler Lost Without You Sculpture (back) For Sale
Adam Handler
Lost Without You Sculpture (back), 2025
Bronze hand-cast sculpture
11 inch Sculpture- Editions of 8 4 inch Sculpture- Editions of 15
About this work
Adam Handler is a New York–based painter celebrated for his bold, childlike figures and emotionally charged visual language. Growing up around his grandparents’ picture-framing studio and later studying classical drawing in Italy, he developed a practice that blends intuitive mark-making with thoughtful composition. His work embraces immediacy—bright acrylic fields, expressive oil-stick gestures, and simplified silhouettes—creating an aesthetic that feels both spontaneous and deeply intentional.Handler draws heavily from personal memory and the relationships that shape him, especially the women in his life. These influences appear through recurring motifs such as oversized eyes, elongated limbs, ghosts, flowers, and intimate domestic symbols. While playful at first glance, his paintings carry currents of vulnerability and introspection, reflecting themes of imagination, loneliness, love, and connection.By flattening space and amplifying expressive detail, Handler turns each figure into an emotional proxy—raw, direct, and relatable. His work functions like a visual diary, merging innocence with complexity and offering viewers a space to see parts of their own inner world reflected back.
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Edition & Provenance
- Year
- 2025
- Medium
- Bronze hand-cast sculpture
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About the Sculptures Series
Explore Adam Handler's compelling Sculptures series, featuring distinctive works that blend emotional resonance with contemporary sculptural practice. This collection includes notable pieces such as Lost Without You Sculpture, You Are The Best Toki Girl Sculpture, Miss You Toki Girl Sculpture, and Soft Love Sculpture, each available in multiple perspectives to reveal the artist's nuanced approach to form and meaning.
Handler's sculptures demonstrate a sophisticated engagement with three-dimensional space, combining technical skill with deeply personal subject matter. The recurring Toki Girl motif throughout the series signals thematic consistency while allowing for meaningful variations in composition and perspective. These works appeal to serious collectors seeking pieces that bridge conceptual depth with refined execution.
Each sculpture in this series offers substantial presence and contemplative quality, suitable for both institutional and private collections. The works represent significant examples of contemporary sculptural practice, with proven appeal in the contemporary art market.
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About Adam Handler
Adam Handler grew up in Queens, New York, and spent much of his childhood at his grandparents' framing factory in the city, where his interest in art first took hold. He later studied life drawing in Italy and graduated from Purchase College with a degree in art history in 2008.
Handler works primarily in oil stick, producing bold, colorful compositions built around a small set of recurring characters, including ghosts, wide eyed girls, and bats. His figures are simplified and direct, drawing on a deliberately naive visual style while carrying deeper themes of memory, loss, and connection. Much of his work is personal, shaped by his relationships with his wife, mother, and grandmother, and by the people and experiences that have influenced him over time.
His paintings favor earth tones and pastels, with an emphasis on scale and spontaneity. Handler has described his process as intuitive, working from emotion rather than a fixed plan, which gives his compositions their loose, immediate quality.
Handler has exhibited widely, with solo and group shows across the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia, including presentations in New York, Seoul, and Mykonos. His work has also appeared at major art fairs, among them Art New York, Art Market Hamptons, and the Armory Print Fair.
He continues to live and work in New York.