Stacey Mandell

Art Brokerage: Stacey Mandell American Artist: Stacey Mandell is a fast learner. In 2017, the 54-year-old Boca Raton resident picked up a paintbrush for the first time in her life. Art is a visual language and Stacey Mandell's art is language made visible, art that speaks to you. Most of them are examples of word art, but not in the literal tradition. Mandell's paintings "speak" primarily in Gregg Shorthand, an elegant form of abbreviated writing that has lost its utility with the development of the Dictaphone, the word processor, the audio recorder, the smartphone. Stacey Mandell's art lives in the pantheon of great word artists, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Edward Ruscha, Tracey Emin, and like some of those, her ideas and aesthetic flows across several media from paintings to installations. This is work that is deep and multi-layered. But if you never get past the surface, you'll have a very pleasurable visual experience. The pictures are wonderfully composed, balanced in color and form, clear and bold. You can tell there is more going on, that each detail is highly considered and composed. There is most definitely an order and logic to this. As you explore deeper, you discover that there is a narrative and now you get to re-discover the work all over again. Listings wanted.