Mandy Lyn Ford

Mandy Lyn Ford is a Los Angeles artist, a New Jersey native, and a New Mexico transplant. Her work draws aesthetic influence from all three. She moved to New Mexico as a teenager to later attend New Mexico State University and the University of New Mexico, and in Los Angeles she studies at UCLA. Her studio is currently in the heart of LA in MidCity. Mandy’s work deals with binaries and is often reminiscent of electronics, punk and ska posters, stain glass windows, and church architecture. These visual influences are evidence of her childhood: growing up in a home that was heavily immersed in computers and gadgets, and in a congregation that met in the architecture of a historic landmark church. Her work is a constant evolution of itself; each painting includes themes and techniques from the previous while adding new bits to the conversation. Mandy’s work, on hand built wood panels, piled with canvas and paint, straddles the line between painting and sculpting. Each work informs the next as well as stands in conversation to such contemporaries as Bret Slater, Caroline Larsen, Peter Halley, Jonathan Lasker, Bram Bogart, Kari Cholnoky. In this way the works take on the historic dialogue of painting while developing their own vocabulary. With inspiration coming from sumptuous layer cakes, techy computer screen, vintage graphics, punk rock, and lush stained-glass window they each strike a balance between rough and dirty, and sexy and clean. Ford lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

EXHIBITION:
The Garden of Earthly Delights