2023 visual artist

Jared Handelsman

Numbers correspond to exhibition map

On Grounds
7. Bound Rocks, 2018, rock and wire, varied dimensions
9. Bound Rocks, 2021, rock and wire, varied dimensions

Statement
These sculptures are inspired by my reading C.G.Jung’s “The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche.” In his work, Jung describes how the Psyche is fragile and easily fractures and reforms in its adaptation to environmental change, through adopting a new attitude…a renewed sense of unity of self. I began this work by finding rocks in the woods that were fragmented. Working with wire, I bind them back together, running the wire both between and around the fragments. I think of these works as a meditation on identity through change and as a model for a complex of the psyche as described by Jung.

About Jared Handelsman
Jared Handelsman is a visual artist based in Catskill, New York whose artistic practice of over thirty years includes land-based, sit- specific works, found object sculptures, landscape photograms, and videos and photographs that explore the nature of light. Jared has had solo exhibitions at Kentler International Drawing Space, NYC; Rockland County Museum, Nyack, NY; The Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY; Bard College at Simons Rock, Great Barrington, MA. He has been in group exhibitions at Prattsville Arts Center, Prattsville, NY; Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock, NY; Albany International Airport Gallery, Albany, NY; State University New York, Ulster; State University of New York, New Paltz; State University New York, Albany; Laponi Gallery, Fordham University, NYC; Cross Contemporary, Saugerties, NY; Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Art Omi, Ghent, NY. Jared was educated at Vassar College, where he received a BA in Philosophy and at Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of Art, receiving an MFA. He also attended Cranbrook Academy of Art. Jared has received fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell Colonies, from The Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown and from Vassar College.