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About the artist

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Through the use of pastel yellows and pinks and subtle, soft, sanded-down surfaces, the flat rectangles seem to be emitting light. Wolhandler’s wonderful paintings — and the related works on paper — are serene and luxurious. They are as much about touch as they are about color and light. Is that their secret? Yes, they are color, light, and touch, made whole.

- John Perreault
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The Messy Minimalist

Wolhandler is represented by Marquee Projects, Bellport, NY and has been included in several solo and group exhibitions in the gallery’s seven year history. The gallery wrote in their press release on the occasion of his solo exhibition, The Messy Minimalist, “Wolhandler is an artist determined to convince us that his plans to build in the 4th dimension are entirely possible”.

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Review of Honoring the Dog-Legging Horizon at Spencer Brownstone Gallery: The work is a rich assortment of abstract paintings made in the last year or so, ranging from the minimalism of Jule Korneffels large, densely layered Godzilla to Larry Wolhandlers Ryman-like experimentalism. Both are excellent examples of restraint. Korneffels piece consists of two dots, one green and the other pink, that stand in opposition to each other in a thin sea of blue covering reddish ground. The more you look, the choppier the water feels, exuding a quiet rumbling. By contrast, Wolhandlers untitled piece presents two adjacent squares, one filled in nicely the other open. The square peg longs for the round hole to its left, the impossibility of which is both frustrating and delightful.