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Marisa Mandler is a multidisciplinary artist working across the mediums of drawing, sculptural installation, sound and writing. Through mark-making, transcription and recording, everyday events and actions become documented gestures which speak to a larger narrative about the impossible human desire for control and perfection. Culling from a multitude of imagery and reference material, Mandler finds associative meaning and draws comparisons between the personal quotidian and a larger collective experience. Repetitive processes of investigation reveal the peripheral, conceptual and emotional underpinnings of Mandler’s subject matter. It is through these revelations that the significance of this “negative space” becomes apparent. Mandler was born in Los Angeles, and is currently working between Los Angeles and Berlin. She received a bachelor of science in painting from New York University in 2002 and a master of fine arts from University of Southern California in 2008. She has exhibited numerously in both Europe and North America and participated in various residencies, including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing in 2010 and Kunsttraject in Amsterdam in 2009. In 2009 and 2010, Mandler was awarded with the Willard Grant in Berlin, Germany. Her work can be seen in the public collection of the Kupferstichkabinett at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Mandler is a full-time professor in the painting and drawing department at the University of Southern California.
What art classes did you take while at Crossroads? Every class I could. Figure drawing with Vernon Salyers, AP art with Michael Wright, painting with Lucia Vinograd, some classes with Pam Posey and ceramics with Leslie Rosdol.
How did Crossroads help to shape or influence you as an artist? Crossroads taught me two things which are imperative to who I am now as an artist and a professor: 1. To be a critical thinker and never take anything at face value. 2. To always be experimenting and making as much as I can.
Marisa Mandler '98
Gates and Barriers, 2020
The Los Angeles Times newspaper
11" x 23" per piece
$3,500 for the 3 works
In this series, I find images of various "gates" and "barriers" in the Los Angeles Times newspaper and meticulously cut out everything on the page except the "gate" or "barrier." The resulting object is a ghostly trace of what was once a page in the newspaper, all information stripped and left remaining are just the delicate "gates" and "barriers."
Marisa Mandler '98
As Far as I Can Reach,
2016-present
Pen on paper
Dimensions variable, from 12" x 12" - 100" x 42"
Art Value - varied
For this series, I draw lines as straight as possible with a single color blue pen. The variations in line quality are from my inability to stay evenly spaced and the drawings stop at the points where I can no longer reach. The works are done with the same color blue pen, but variations of color are achieved from the process of the pen(s) losing ink.
Marisa Mandler '98
Untitled, 2020
Neon
8" x 24"
$1,100
This neon work reads A PART or APART. The spacing of the A and P are ambiguous, making the viewer responsible for deciding which they see, APART or A PART. The work was originally shown in a tree, but can be shown anywhere. Electricity is available.
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