Past Resident
2023: Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Mandy Espezel
Mandy Espezel is an interdisciplinary artist working with paintings and site-specific installations. Espezel’s works engage in an intersectional feminist-phenomenological discourse and investigate visceral representations of anxiety, desire, humour, and failure. She explores how intuitive processes manifest bodily knowledge, while questioning the division of the material and the conceptual and addressing the authority of a hierarchical-binary-system.
Mandy Espezel has exhibited work at Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Canada; Trükimuuseum Gallery, Estonia; and Space Gachang Gallery, South Korea, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2023 Spring Open Studios
April 21–April 22, 2023
Mandy Espezel, Body Longing, 2021, oil on canvas, craft paper, works on paper, and wall painting, dimensions variable. Courtesy of Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Mandy Espezel, Submerged, 2021, oil on canvas, 88 × 681/2 in. (223.52 × 173.99 cm). Courtesy of Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Mandy Espezel, installation view of "Drip and Tickle: nothing ever is not true, nothing ever is always real," 2019, mixed media, dimensions variable. Courtesy of Space Gachang Gallery.
Mandy Espezel, slipping into & against, 2018, mixed media, dimensions variable. Courtesy of Studio PRÁM.
Mandy Espezel, Paper Fort, 2017, mixed media. Courtesy of Harcourt House Gallery.
