Morgan Mandalay: ERUPTION AT ITS PEAK

Morgan Mandalay’s latest volcanoes series, returns to the quest of a painterly motive of the volcano, turned into a surrealistic painting around landscape and the human emotions. He was inspired by large sessions of plein air painting in California, a place home to many natural forces, among them 20 known volcanoes. Volcanoes are presented at the moment of the explosion, with its electromagnetic charged field. Viewed from the distance, flowers, lemons and birds are the antagonist of the destructive force of nature. Fragility and the ever recurring life meets the magmatic explosion.

*Long Beach, CA, USA Education 2018 Fellow, Shandaken Project’s Paint School, New York, New York 2017 MFA, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California 2014  BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Selected Solo & Duo Exhibitions  2022 Eruption At Its Peak, wildpalms Düsseldorf 2020 FAIR (NADA), with Christine Frerichs, Klowden Mann, Online 2020 On Colonus, Extase, Chicago, Illinois 2019 Dog and Pony, with Chloe Seibert, No Place Gallery, Columbus, Ohio 2019 The Sun Hung Low or A Question Loomed, Everybody, Chicago,  Illinois 2019 Bad Sin Frutas, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California 2018 Thank Your Squash Banana. I’m Not an Ape, You Are!, BWSMX, Mexico City, Mexico 2018 Holy, Holy, Holy, Cat Box Contemporary, Queens, New York 2018 Topography of a Terrestrial Paradise, Et Al Gallery, San Francisco, California 2017 DAMA, with Kim-Anh Schreiber, BWSMX, Turin, Italy 2017 Norman Amygdala, City Limits, Oakland, California Select Group Exhibitions 2020 El busca, encuentra…y sigue encontrando, curated by Danny Baez, 2020 White Columns, New York, New York, USA 2019 Untitled Art Fair, Klowden Mann, Miami, Florida 2019 Collection No. 10, Interior and the Collector, Lyon, France 2019 Only Human, H.G. Inn, Chicago, Illinois 2019 Commutiny, Sibling, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2019 Tetsuo, curated by American Fantasy Classics, Bahamas Biennale, Detroit, Michigan 2018 El terror en lo profundo, curated by Deslave, Human Resources, Los Angeles, California 2018 freshly cut and softly bound, curated by Lisa Kehler and Timo Fahler, Vacation, New York, New York 2018 Paint School, Flag Art Foundation, New York, New York 2018 Gnaw the Bone That Falls to Thy Lot, curated by Sophie Jennis Kimberly Klark, Queens, New York 2018 Annex, curated by Jay Ezra Nayssan, M+B, Los Angeles, California 2017 Necronomicon Uploaded, Deslave, Tijuana, Mexico 2017 All the Small Things, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2017 A Step Away, curated by Anthony Graham and Lara Bullock, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego California 2017 Domestic Tranquility, 0-0, Los Angeles, California 2017 AnthroMorphoCene, curated by Lee M. Lavy, Bread and Salt, San Diego, California 2016 Float in a Dark Tank, Yautepec, Mexico City, Mexico 2016 How High?, Left Field, San Luis Obispo, California 2016 Le Domaine Enchanté, curated by Domenico di Chirico, Galleria Acappella, Naples, Italy 2016 Sugar Talk, LVL3, Chicago, Illinois Selected Bibliography 2020 Early, Cassidy, Morgan Mandalay “On Colonus” at Extase, Chicago Artist Writers, February 23. 2020 Kaye, Gareth, Review: Morgan Mandalay @ Extase, Journal.fyi, February 22. 2020 Filchack, Ryan, Doubling in the Dark: A Review of Morgan Mandalay at Extase, Newcity Magazine, February 19. 2019 New American Paintings, #141 MFA Issue, curated by Amber Isseiva, December 01. 2019 Stromberg, Matthew, Morgan Mandalay at Klowden Mann, Contemporary Art Review, Los Angeles, May 1. 2019 Osbergm, Annabel, Morgan Mandalay, Artillery Magazine, April 24. 2019 Knight, Christopher, Review: In Morgan Mandalay’s new paintings, life carries on as Eden burns, Los Angeles Times, April 23. 2019 Bowie, Summer, Bad Sin Frutas: An Interview with Painter Morgan Mandalay, Autre, April 19. 2017 Grand, Robert, Q&A: Morgan Mandalay’s SPF15 Gallery Avoids Gentrification By 2017 Hosting Exhibitions on Public Beaches, Artspace, June 30. 2016 Van Houten Maldonado, Devon, Itinerant and Off-the-Map Galleries Find a Place in Mexico City’s Material Art Fair, Hyperallergic, February 5. 2015 Morris, Matt, Critics Pick: Todd Kelly and Morgan Mandalay at LVL3, Artforum