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FOR RELEASE UPON RECEIPT 9/23/05

Iren Handschuh, Guest Artist, will be featured at the Berta Walker Gallery Oct. 7 – 30, Opening Reception, Friday Oct. 7, 6 – 8 pm. The exhibition, “A Delicate Balance”, focuses on Iren’s small sculptures and mobiles made of pits, seeds, nuts, and wood. With surprising elements, she carves, drills, combines and constructs these organic materials to address ideas of balance, mobility, and rotation. Encompassing an absurdly humorous point of view, often at a monumentally unobtrusive scale, Iren’s aesthetic remains committed to her desire to create beauty and perfection, while questioning our existence, “…the pit as the core of essence, the promise of growth, or the proof of existence”. “If the human experience had a pit, what would it be?”
A native of France, and a woodworker by trade, Iren has been living on the Cape and working as a sculptor since the late 1980’s. She was born in Paris, France, then emigrated to the United States in 1971. Iren studied architectural drafting at Boston Architectural Center, and worked in construction, cabinet and furniture making in the Boston area, Cape Cod, and the Islands. She has exhibited in Wellfleet, Provincetown, Nantucket, New York, and Japan .

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