Mandie Colangelo "Coastline Memory" Mixed Media on Panel, Modern Abstract Landscape in Red, Yellow and Cobalt, Carmel California Art

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Coastline Memory reads like an aerial view of a shoreline at the height of summer. A flame of red crowns … Read more Coastline Memory reads like an aerial view of a shoreline at the height of summer. A flame of red crowns the top, cascading into cream and buttery yellow speckled with orange, then through bands of mint, aqua and sky until it settles into deep cobalt that seeps into violet at the bottom. At the heart, a small turquoise and amber swirl looks like a cove or a hidden eye. The deep blue ground surrounds it all like open ocean. Colangelo poured and tilted, letting each color flow into the next, while the speckles and swirls formed on their own. From her TERRAIN series, it carries the sweet ache of a place once loved and still remembered vividly.

It belongs where trips are dreamed up, perhaps a home office or the hallway leading to a guest room. Sandy neutrals, rope details, rattan and a few treasured shells sit easily with the palette, and a light oak console makes a natural base below it, with room for a few travel books.

Mixed media on panel, 8 x 10 in (20.3 x 25.4 cm).

Mandie Colangelo is an abstract painter based in Monterey, California. Raised in Arizona, she painted from childhood and wrote music, then built a creative career that moved through fashion, design, jewelry, graphic design and photography. Each chapter sharpened her eye for color, form and material. A season of profound change brought her back to the brush, and painting is now her primary practice.

Working in the abstract expressionist tradition, she builds her surfaces from acrylic, resin, street inks, pigment powders, fabric and, most distinctively, plastic, and treats each painting as an open experiment. Her paintings move between celebration and loss, memory and renewal. As she puts it: “More than anything, I hope my artwork inspires hope, joy, and reflection in those who experience it.”

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