Associate Professor

Classes : Video 2, Sex and Cinema

Degrees: BFA, San Francisco Art Institute; MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College

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/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 part of 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.