Mando Marie, EASSSSSSSYY, 2025, acrylic and aerosol on canvas

Mando Marie: EASSSSSSSYY
a solo exhibition
June 5 – June 28, 2026

OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, June 5 • 6PM - 8PM
RSVP here*
*appreciated but not required

Paradigm Gallery + Studio is pleased to present EASSSSSSSYY, a solo exhibition of new works on canvas and paper by Mando Marie. Marking her first solo exhibition with the gallery, the presentation builds on her distinct and instantly recognizable visual language, using familiar forms and gestures to evoke a sense of nostalgia while allowing for more complex and layered readings.

Mando’s visual language combines hand-drawn and hand-cut stencil techniques with a uniquely painterly sensibility. Her compositions often incorporate vintage sewing patterns, graphic forms, and recurring motifs such as twinned figures, creating images that feel both familiar and unsettled. Repetition, layering, and sharply defined forms establish a visual rhythm that carries across her work in both public and studio contexts.

Mando shares, “I usually start with a nostalgic feeling, images or phrases that make you think, ‘I know that from somewhere.’ That’s just the first move to bring someone into the painting, including me. Beneath that, or alongside it, I’m drawn, and I don’t really know why, to moments of duality, where something straightforward opens into tensions between tenderness and unease, innocence and overt, comforting and spooky. It’s in those spaces that my work feels most alive.

The title of the show, a stretched version of the word ‘Easy,’ plays with that same idea. Sometimes ‘easy’ means simple or effortless; other times it’s something you’re told…to take it easy, to pull back. I’m interested in that slippage, where one thing holds two meanings at once.”

Operating between studio and street, Mando maintains an active presence in both contexts. Her work moves fluidly between mural-scale interventions and more intimate works on paper and canvas, carrying a consistent visual language across formats. The imagery exists in a space between the nostalgic and the contemporary, where clarity gives way to ambiguity and simple gestures open into more layered emotional readings.

The works presented include pieces developed during Mando’s residency at Bed-Stuy Art Residency in Brooklyn, New York, a program that supports experimentation and exchange. The exhibition takes place in tandem with a mural project in Philadelphia, a project supported by Dutch Culture USA, a program of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the United States, and Paradigm Gallery + Studio, reflecting on shared cultural connections between the United States and the Netherlands.

Mando Marie: EASSSSSSSYY will be on view at Paradigm Gallery + Studio from June 5 through June 28, 2026, with a public opening reception on Friday, June 5 during Old City’s First Fridays.

Please email info@paradigm-gallery.com if you wish to be added to Mando Marie's digital collector preview list for her upcoming exhibition. You may also submit your request HERE.

About Mando Marie
Mando Marie is an American painter and stencil artist living and working between Amsterdam and Portugal. She studied at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design and has exhibited widely throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Her practice moves between studio work and public space, producing works on paper and canvas alongside large-scale commissioned murals and clandestine urban interventions. Using a combination of hand-drawn and hand-cut stencils, painting, and print-based processes, Mando builds layered compositions that balance graphic clarity with a uniquely painterly depth.

Recurring elements in her work include twinned figures and the use of vintage sewing patterns, which function as both material and compositional structure. Her imagery often sits between familiarity and unease, where seemingly simple forms carry more complex emotional undercurrents.

Working across multiple techniques within a single piece, screen printing, wheat pasting, stencil work, and aerosol alongside traditional brush work, Mando creates work that is both precise and layered. This approach allows for a visual language that resonates across contexts, bridging street-based practices and gallery presentation without losing the integrity of either.

About Paradigm Gallery + Studio
Paradigm Gallery + Studio® was established in 2010 by co-founders and curators Jason Chen and Sara McCorriston. The gallery exhibits meaningful, process-intensive contemporary artwork by emerging and mid-career artists from around the world, with a focus on Philadelphia. In 2023, Paradigm moved locations and opened its new 5-story, 7,000 sq. ft. home, The Paradigm Arts Building, in Old City, Philadelphia. Open to the public, the building boasts multiple floors of exhibition space, integrated in-house design and printmaking, a dedicated events floor, and art advisory offices. With this, Chen and McCorriston expanded their vision for the greater Philadelphia arts community. The gallery is at the heart of this vision, anchoring Paradigm’s overall mission of increasing access to the commercial art world, supporting artists and advancing their careers, and collaborating with like-minded partners to build a more equitable, sustainable arts economy for all.

EXHIBITION HOURS
Thursdays • 10 AM – 6 PM
Fridays • 10 AM – 6 PM
Saturdays • 11 AM – 6 PM
Sundays • 11 AM – 5 PM
Mon-Wed by appointment.

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LOCATION
12 N. 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

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Please email info@paradigm-gallery.com if you wish to be added to Mando Marie's digital collector preview list for her upcoming exhibition. You may also submit your request HERE.