Mac Mansfield’s practice within painting is primarily focused on the use of gesture, colour and form to build pictorial space. There is a particular interest in the way this can navigate paths through two dimensional space or create resting places for the eye like a kind of visual furniture. Mac has an affinity for the line ‘and various ways to tie rope’ that Lou Reed eventually removed from the song Wild Child, feeling that if recontextualised it could express the poetics of this process.
Working at a reduced scale than what would be typical for this ward of non-objective painting, an attempt to avoid the ostentatiousness of abstraction is made. Parallel forms and inquiries into certain colour palettes become visible when multiple smaller paintings are combined in the process of installation.
Mac Mansfield
Consolation Prize 2024
oil and acrylic on board
41 × 51 cm
Mac Mansfield
As the river runs late 2024
oil and acrylic on board
41 × 51 cm
Mac Mansfield
Unorganised Dreams 2024
acrylic on board
41 × 53 cm
Mac Mansfield
Send in the clouds 2024
oil and acrylic on board
50 × 40 cm
Mac Mansfield
Buy low, sell high 2024
oil and acrylic on board
40 × 58 cm
Mac Mansfield
A thousand lights look back at you 2024
oil and acrylic on board
35 × 45 cm
Mac Mansfield
Nail Polish 2024
oil and acrylic on board
30 × 37 cm
Mac Mansfield
Eyes Falling Stars 2024
oil on board
40 × 60 cm
Mac Mansfield
White trash riverboat Tom Sawyer 2024
oil on board
36 × 39 cm
Mac Mansfield
The American Guest 1 2024
acrylic on board
37 × 47 cm
Mac Mansfield
The American Guest 2 2024
oil and acrylic on board
42 × 37 cm
Mac Mansfield
Secret Fires 2024
oil and acrylic on board
60 × 70 cm
Mac Mansfield
Boat with no ocean 2024
acrylic on board
54 × 62 cm
Mac Mansfield
Priority Magic 2024
oil and acrylic on board
150 × 121 cm
Mac Mansfield
An objects capacity to emit 2024
oil and gesso on board
52 × 70 cm
Mac Mansfield
Sodium Fox 2024
oil and acrylic on board
37 × 44 cm
Mac Mansfield
The Exact Dimensions of the Situation 2024
oil and gesso on board
66 × 91 cm
Mac Mansfield
With Love From Crystal City 2024
oil and gesso on board
66 × 91 cm
Mac Mansfield
Restatement of the problem 2024
oil on board
36 × 49 cm
Mac Mansfield
think of me as a place 2024
oil and acrylic on board
27 × 32 cm
Mac Mansfield
Perchance Eternity 2024
oil and gesso on board
46 × 61 cm
Mac Mansfield
Starlight River 2024
oil and gesso on board
74 × 100 cm
Mac Mansfield
A Month of Sundays 2024
acrylic on board
42 × 40 cm
