Dan Mandelbaum
Dan Mandelbaum, a New Jersey native currently residing in Mallorca, Spain, is a tried and true champion of the analog. Hand-made and hand-carved, these labor intensive works manifest his hand-drawn aesthetic in polished, non-precious stone and root his practice in the millennia long human desire to create life out of stone
ZieherSmith presentations: Untitled Miami Beach (2024); ZieherSmith & Friends (Nashville, 2020)
Dan Mandelbaum
Cosmic Dog, 2023
Stone
14 x 20 x 7 in (35.6 x 50.8 x 17.8 cm)
IN9350
Dan Mandelbaum
Dimoni, 2024
Stone, epoxy, iron
20.25 x 18.5 x 5 in (51.4 x 47 x 12.7 cm)
IN9354
Dan Mandelbaum
Untitled, 2024
Carved stone
9.75 x 17.5 x 3.25 in (24.8 x 44.5 x 8.3 cm)
Dan Mandelbaum
Mr. Bean, 2024
Stone
7.5 x 11.5 x 8 in (19.1 x 29.2 x 20.3 cm)
IN9351
Dan Mandelbaum
Duck Head, 2024
Stone, epoxy, iron
9.5 x 9 x 9 in (24.1 x 22.9 x 22.9 cm)
IN9352
Dan Mandelbaum has long worked in various sculptural media, creating an abundant, fertile universe of happy, anthropomorphic creatures, fresh from the primordial ectoplasm of his peculiar imagination. Prior to his exile in Europe, while studying at Pratt (BA, 2014, MFA 2016) and residing in Ridgewood, Queens, Mandelbaum worked in wood, concrete, ceramic, drawing and fabric, with ceramics as a material of choice. With his shift to labor-intensive stonework from Mallorcan geological specimens, his oeuvre becomes entrenched within most ancient art traditions. His impulsive, exuberant touch is now elevated by the sheen of earthy color and texture.
EDUCATION
2012 - 2014 Pratt Munson Williams Proctor Utica, NY
2014 - 2016 Pratt Institute BFA Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 "Celestial Songs,” Group show, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
2023 "A Picnic State of Mind," Gallery Tutu, Brooklyn, NY
2023 "En Migma." Natali Bento Art Contemporani, Alaro, Spain
2022 “Meandros”, Solo Show, Europa Gallery, New York, NY
2021 “Might be the last show”, Solo show, Marvin Gardens, Queens, NY
2021 “Friends of Marvin Gardens”, group show, Stanley’s gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 ZieherSmith & Friends, Virgin Hotel, Nashville, TN
2020 “Dan’s Show” solo show, Best Western, Queens,NY
2020 That time Anthony Drove all the way up to Montreal with a trunk full of sculptures just to show them to one person on the side of the road in a snowstorm, Montreal, QC
2019 “A Snake Without A Head Is Just A Rope’, group show, Sim Smith Gallery, London, England
2019, “The Birds”, Chart Art Fair, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 ‘Jibber Jabber’ group show, Current Space, Baltimore, MD
2018 ‘MINE II’ group show, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 ‘Operating Thetans’ group show, Antenna, New Orleans, LA
2018 ‘FPOAFM Brixtape’ group show, Calico Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2018 'Open/Ended' group show, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Art Herning, V1 Gallery, Herning, Denmark
2018 'Breaking Sculptures' Solo Show, Marvin Gardens, Queens, NY
2017 Chart Art Fair, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 'Small Enough To Keep Me Happy, Big Enough To Keep Me Occupied' Group Show, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 'Free Honey' Solo Show, Marvin Gardens, Queens, NY