Mandie Colangelo
Mixed media on panel
48"×36"
Mandie Colangelo

MAKE AN OFFER
✅ Thank you! Your request has been submitted.
ASK A QUESTION
✅ Thank you! Your request has been submitted.
RESERVE THIS ARTWORK
Request to place this artwork on hold for up to 7 days. We will confirm availability and reserve it for you once approved.
✅ Thank you! Your request has been submitted.
The Piece
A broad stroke of yellow curls across the top of Ostinato XII and loops back down into a swirling body of marbled color, where scarlet, rose, cobalt, emerald and pale lilac twist through one another like water in a tide pool. The loop is thick and sculptural, its edges rimmed in deep green and freckled with tiny droplets. Behind it, a curtain of yellow, pink and blue drips runs down a dark teal ground, softened in places by sprayed bands of glowing color.
Colangelo poured the form in successive layers and let gravity and chance marble the colors, each pass uncovering something she could not have planned. "Each piece is created with a sense of freedom," she says, and that freedom is easy to feel in the lavish, looping gesture at its center. Part of her FORCE series, the painting has the pull of a melody that keeps coming back. It holds its own above a teal banquette and a yellow dining table, or over a walnut record console in a blush living room lit with brass.
The Artist
The Artist
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."
Learn More
You Might Also Be Drawn To
Love this style?
Join our collector list to receive
first access to new works
Meet Our Artist
Javiera da Fonseca Ilić
Landscape, Abstract, Figurative
Chilean
Javiera da Fonseca Ilić (b. 1982, Santiago de Chile) is a Chilean-born, Mexico-based abstract artist whose work explores the interplay of memory, dreams, and energy through material experimentation and investigations of the connection between inner and natural worlds...
Kate Vorona
Abstract Figurative Painter
Moldovan
Kate Vorona (Moldovan, b. 1993) is a contemporary abstract-figurative painter whose expressive, color-driven works explore the emotional inner worlds of her figures through movement, atmosphere, and dynamic spatial tension....
Cedric Vu
Textile Artist
French-Vietnamese
Cedric Vu (b. 1996) is a French-Vietnamese contemporary visual artist born and raised in San Jose, California. From 2014 to 2023, he lived in Los Angeles, where he studied filmmaking, worked as a dancer, and held a range of production roles in film and...
Christiane Corcelle
Mixed Media Artist
French-American
Christiane Corcelle is a French-American mixed media artist based in Massachusetts. Her intuitive, layered practice spans painting, printmaking, collage, and de-collage, building richly textured surfaces that invite close exploration. Guided by curiosity and...
Beth Shields
Abstract Expressionist
American
Beth Shields is a CA-based abstract artist whose dynamic, expressive work explores the complexities of human experience through bold experimentation and a lifelong commitment to creative discovery. Her work has been widely exhibited and collected by major corporations, luxury hotels, and private collectors worldwide, including IBM, Visa, Hilton, Marriott, and Hyatt....
Lesley Anne Spowart
Abstract Expressionist
American
Lesley Anne Spowart is an abstract multimedia artist based on the Monterey, CA whose richly textured work combines beeswax, tar, photographic transfers, acrylics, and mixed media to create intuitive, uplifting compositions that explore color, surface, opacity, and transparency....
Wenyi Zhu
Figurative oil painter
Chinese
Wenyi Zhu (b. 1981, Suzhou, China) is a figurative painter based in College Station, Texas, whose work explores the human figure as both a physical and psychological presence. Trained in traditional Renaissance and French academic techniques, she builds her luminous oil paintings through layered grisaille and transparent glazes.....
Rinat Goren
Encaustic Artist
Israeli-American
Born and raised in Israel and now based in Silicon Valley, California, Rinat Goren creates abstract and figurative paintings that reflect her deep admiration for individuals who think critically and act with intention. Her work is inspired by the uniquely human...
Mandie Colangelo
Mixed Media Abstract
American
Mandie Colangelo is an abstract painter based in Monterey, California, whose work builds surfaces from acrylic, resin, street inks, pigment powders, fabric and, most distinctively, plastic. Working in the abstract expressionist tradition....
Meifen Zhong
Figurative Painter
Chinese
Meifen Zhong (b. 1986, China) is a Shanghai-based painter whose refined portraits, rendered with luminous, porcelain-like surfaces and meticulous brushwork, explore quiet introspection and emotional depth...
Michael Gustavson
Ceramic Sculptor
American
Michael Gustavson is a California-based ceramic artist who reimagines traditional raku through a highly personal firing process, creating large-scale, painterly sculptures distinguished by luminous color, expressive surfaces, and a synthesis of abstract painting and sculptural form...
Miriam Sweeney
Abstract Landscape Painter
American
Miriam Sweeney is a San Francisco–based artist who transforms aerial city maps into textured, layered abstractions that capture the rhythm, density, and evolving structure of urban life...
Marc Zimmerman
Sculptor & Painter
American
Marc Zimmerman is an American painter and ceramic sculptor based in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, recognized for exuberant, color-driven works that fuse tropical imagery, figurative elements, and stylized botanical forms. Across both canvas and clay...
Rebecca Koury
Mixed Media Abstract
American
Rebecca Koury is a contemporary painter and collage artist whose layered, meditative abstractions explore nature, movement, and transformation through luminous, textured surfaces informed by both painting and sculptural sensibility...
Flavia Cuddemi
Figurative, Landscape Watercolorist
Italian
Flavia Cuddemi is a Sicilian-born, Rome-based painter and illustrator whose delicate watercolor works explore intimacy, solitude, and belonging through tender human gestures and expansive, atmospheric landscapes....
Terese Garcia
Mixed Media Artist
American
Terese Garcia is a Monterey, CA–based, non-representational artist whose experimental, process-driven practice is shaped by nature, meditation, and lived experience, alongside her work as a published poet and active contributor to the California arts community...
Rochi Lana
Contemporary Figurative
Argentinean
Rochi Lana is an Argentine illustrator and visual artist born in 1990 and based in Buenos Aires. In 2019 she began working under the artistic identity Banana Split, developing a practice that sits between the narrative and the symbolic, combining figurative elements....
Meet Our Artist
VIEW ALL
Rita Matos
Abstract Painter
Portuguese
Rita Matos (b. 1988) is a Portuguese-born, London-based mixed media artist whose intuitive, layered abstractions explore memory, presence, and transformation through expressive mark-making and evolving surface compositions....
Javiera da Fonseca Ilić
Landscape, Abstract, Figurative
Chilean
Javiera da Fonseca Ilić (b. 1982, Santiago de Chile) is a Chilean-born, Mexico-based abstract artist whose work explores the interplay of memory, dreams, and energy through material experimentation and investigations of the connection between inner and natural worlds...
Kate Vorona
Abstract Figurative Painter
Moldovan
Kate Vorona (Moldovan, b. 1993) is a contemporary abstract-figurative painter whose expressive, color-driven works explore the emotional inner worlds of her figures through movement, atmosphere, and dynamic spatial tension....
Cedric Vu
Textile Artist
French-Vietnamese
Cedric Vu (b. 1996) is a French-Vietnamese contemporary visual artist born and raised in San Jose, California. From 2014 to 2023, he lived in Los Angeles, where he studied filmmaking, worked as a dancer, and held a range of production roles in film and...
Christiane Corcelle
Mixed Media Artist
French-American
Christiane Corcelle is a French-American mixed media artist based in Massachusetts. Her intuitive, layered practice spans painting, printmaking, collage, and de-collage, building richly textured surfaces that invite close exploration. Guided by curiosity and...
Beth Shields
Abstract Expressionist
American
Beth Shields is a CA-based abstract artist whose dynamic, expressive work explores the complexities of human experience through bold experimentation and a lifelong commitment to creative discovery. Her work has been widely exhibited and collected by major corporations, luxury hotels, and private collectors worldwide, including IBM, Visa, Hilton, Marriott, and Hyatt....
Lesley Anne Spowart
Abstract Expressionist
American
Lesley Anne Spowart is an abstract multimedia artist based on the Monterey, CA whose richly textured work combines beeswax, tar, photographic transfers, acrylics, and mixed media to create intuitive, uplifting compositions that explore color, surface, opacity, and transparency....
Wenyi Zhu
Figurative oil painter
Chinese
Wenyi Zhu (b. 1981, Suzhou, China) is a figurative painter based in College Station, Texas, whose work explores the human figure as both a physical and psychological presence. Trained in traditional Renaissance and French academic techniques, she builds her luminous oil paintings through layered grisaille and transparent glazes.....
Rinat Goren
Encaustic Artist
Israeli-American
Born and raised in Israel and now based in Silicon Valley, California, Rinat Goren creates abstract and figurative paintings that reflect her deep admiration for individuals who think critically and act with intention. Her work is inspired by the uniquely human...
Mandie Colangelo
Mixed Media Abstract
American
Mandie Colangelo is an abstract painter based in Monterey, California, whose work builds surfaces from acrylic, resin, street inks, pigment powders, fabric and, most distinctively, plastic. Working in the abstract expressionist tradition....
Meifen Zhong
Figurative Painter
Chinese
Meifen Zhong (b. 1986, China) is a Shanghai-based painter whose refined portraits, rendered with luminous, porcelain-like surfaces and meticulous brushwork, explore quiet introspection and emotional depth...
Michael Gustavson
Ceramic Sculptor
American
Michael Gustavson is a California-based ceramic artist who reimagines traditional raku through a highly personal firing process, creating large-scale, painterly sculptures distinguished by luminous color, expressive surfaces, and a synthesis of abstract painting and sculptural form...
Miriam Sweeney
Abstract Landscape Painter
American
Miriam Sweeney is a San Francisco–based artist who transforms aerial city maps into textured, layered abstractions that capture the rhythm, density, and evolving structure of urban life...
Marc Zimmerman
Sculptor & Painter
American
Marc Zimmerman is an American painter and ceramic sculptor based in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, recognized for exuberant, color-driven works that fuse tropical imagery, figurative elements, and stylized botanical forms. Across both canvas and clay...
Rebecca Koury
Mixed Media Abstract
American
Rebecca Koury is a contemporary painter and collage artist whose layered, meditative abstractions explore nature, movement, and transformation through luminous, textured surfaces informed by both painting and sculptural sensibility...
Flavia Cuddemi
Figurative, Landscape Watercolorist
Italian
Flavia Cuddemi is a Sicilian-born, Rome-based painter and illustrator whose delicate watercolor works explore intimacy, solitude, and belonging through tender human gestures and expansive, atmospheric landscapes....
Terese Garcia
Mixed Media Artist
American
Terese Garcia is a Monterey, CA–based, non-representational artist whose experimental, process-driven practice is shaped by nature, meditation, and lived experience, alongside her work as a published poet and active contributor to the California arts community...
Rochi Lana
Contemporary Figurative
Argentinean
Rochi Lana is an Argentine illustrator and visual artist born in 1990 and based in Buenos Aires. In 2019 she began working under the artistic identity Banana Split, developing a practice that sits between the narrative and the symbolic, combining figurative elements....
















































