Education
Supported by the G.I. Bill, he studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, exhibited at the Musee Doctorate’Art Moderne and was one of the founding members of Galerie Huit (the first American cooperative gallery in Europe).
Supported by the G.I. Bill, he studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, exhibited at the Musee Doctorate’Art Moderne and was one of the founding members of Galerie Huit (the first American cooperative gallery in Europe).
Through association with André Breton and his circle, Hendler was exposed to surrealism and its intended program - the liberation of the human spirit. With his return from Paris in 1951, Hendler was introduced to the burgeoning New York art scene. There he met and befriended many of the important figures of an emerging vanguard.
Throughout the fifties, he participated in numerous exhibitions including.
“an American, one-man premiere,” at the Dublin Galleries in Philadelphia, “fresh from Paris” and historic invitationals at the Camino, March and Stable Galleries in New New York Foreign the period of the 1960s he was represented by Rose Fried.
In 1962, for a one-man show at the Rose Fried Gallery, Franz Kline wrote in a forward for the exhibition catalogue, “Since first I saw Hendler’s paintings in 1952 they have developed into a larger simpler form arriving at a personally abstract image controlled within a painted space. The direct austere design and color complexes paint the image without undue nuances - with clarity and mature independence.”
He taught at the University of Minnesota from 1968 until he retired, a full professor, in 1984.
His work is represented by Berry Campbell Gallery in New York City.
He was a voting member of the New York Artists Club from 1951 until its end in 1957.