Handelman, Michelle (1960-)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1960-
Biography
Michelle Handelman uses video, live performance and photography to make confrontational works that explore the sublime in its various forms of excess and nothingness.
Her background is a study in opposites–raised during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Handelman split her time between Chicago, where her mother was a fixture in the art world, and Los Angeles, where her father was a player in the counterculture sex industry.
Over the years Handelman has voraciously traversed both these worlds, developing a body of work that investigates ways of looking at the forbidden and revealing dark, subconscious layers of outsider agency.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Michelle Handelman interview, 2023 April 21, 2023 April 21
Item
Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.10.40
Scope and Contents
From the sub-sub-sub-series:
FIT Talks is an oral history program of the Fashion Institute of Technology/State University of New York. It documents personal accounts and experiences of people relevant to the College and to the industries that support - and are supported by - the College’s curricula. The program incorporates the most suitable technologies for the capture and provision of content and, with the guidance of an advisory board, the strategic addition of new subjects to the collection. The collection is...
Dates:
2023 April 21