Artist Mandy Espezel
Title Orange Sash
Media oil on canvas
Dated
2012
Size 23.75 x 16 x 1 in. / 60.3 x 40.6 x 2.5 cm.
Sold $1,000
Estimate $325 - $650
Notes
signed and titled verso; unframed
Reference
Mandy Espezel exhibited at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in 2021 in their solo exhibition Body Longing
Provenance
donated by the artist; proceeds from this work go to the Southern Alberta Art Gallery [SAAG], Lethbridge - for more information on the gallery, visit saag.ca
Biographical Information
Mandy Espezel ~ [21st century] Canadian
see artist's website at mandyespezel.com;
Mandy Espezel is an interdisciplinary artist working within the expanded field of painting. Engaged in an intersectional-feminist phenomenological discourse, their work explores manifestations of anxiety, desire, humour, and failure through material-intuitive processes. Espezel received a BFA from the University of Alberta (2007), and an MFA from the University of Lethbridge (2012), where they teach in the Art Department as an Instructor. Their work has been supported by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Canada Council for the Arts. Espezel has participated in numerous exhibitions and residencies, within Canada and abroad. Their solo exhibition Body Longing was installed in the upstairs gallery at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in November of 2021. Espezel is based in Treaty 7, Sikoohkotoki/Lethbridge, in the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy. Currently, they are Artist in Residence at ISCP, the International Studio and Curatorial Program, in Brooklyn, New York. Recent exhibition at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery titled Body Longing was held in 2021