About

Raised in Queens, now working in nearby Armonk, Adam Handler discovered his artistic spark as a child in his grandparents’ New York framing factory. Surrounded with paintings by the likes of Chagall, de Kooning, Basquiat and Haring, Handler began emulating his favorites as a teen, and later focused his own creative voice by studying life drawing in Italy and earning a BA in art history, aiming to avoid the strictures of fine art education and retain the sensibility of “an outsider, but an informed outsider.” Employing candy-colored acrylics and the childlike scrawl of oil stick, often working …