# Running Free

Color breaks loose in Running Free and races on a long diagonal from the lower left toward the upper right. A blazing red stream runs through the center, its surface dotted with small lacy pockets and bubbles, flanked by wide ribbons of orange that fray into fine, cell-like patterns. Deep cobalt and indigo sweep along the edges, traced with thin lines of green and yellow, while pale gaps of bare white ground open between the currents like flashes of spray.

Colangelo poured the paint and tipped the panel steeply, handing the rest to gravity and speed. In one corner a small pool of olive and gold has curled back on itself and settled into its own quiet eddy. "Each piece is created with a sense of freedom," she says. From her RIVERS series, this one wears that freedom openly, wild and glad to be alive. Small enough for a desk, a shelf or a gallery wall, it sits happily above a walnut dresser beside navy velvet or in a pale blue dining room, where terracotta and citrus echo its fire.

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## Details

- **Price:** 1200.0 USD
- **Vendor:** Art Scout
- **Type:** Original Painting
- **Tags:** abstract art, buy original art online, California artist, Mandie Colangelo, mixed media, original painting, under 2500, wall art

## Variants

| Variant | Price | Available |
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| Default Title | 1200.00 USD | In stock |

## Images

- Running Free, original abstract mixed media painting by Mandie Colangelo, 12 x 12 in
- Detail of Running Free by Mandie Colangelo, red stream with lacy bubbles beside a frayed orange ribbon
- Detail of Running Free by Mandie Colangelo, cobalt edge and an olive and gold eddy curling into orange
- Running Free by Mandie Colangelo shown above a walnut dresser beside a navy velvet armchair in a cream living room
- Running Free by Mandie Colangelo shown above a light oak sideboard in a pale blue dining room

## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 12"×12"
- **Artist Material:** Mixed media on panel
- **Artist Name:** Mandie Colangelo
- **About The Artist Link:** https://www.artscout.pro/collections/mandie-colangelo

### About The Artist Content

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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> Updated: 2026-11-03