EVA MANTELL
bio
Eva Mantell makes sculpture, paintings, drawings, video and installation. Her work has been exhibited at the Monmouth Museum, the Hunterdon Museum, the Bernstein Gallery at Princeton University, the Abington Art Center, the Jersey City Museum, PS1 and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Eva has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She curates, teaches and speaks about art including the recent Art as Activism, at the exhibit Fight or Flight at The Painting Center, NYC, in conversation with Father Michael Perry. She has a special interest in arts engagement and community outreach, and her teaching has been included in Designing and Delivering Arts Programs for Older Adult Learners, published by the National Center for Creative Aging in Washington, DC. She lives in Princeton, NJ with her son and daughter.
statement
“Only connect. I make art from materials like magazines, coffee cups, straws and electric and computer wires. I try to be straightforward about it: as an animal would make a nest or a swing or a trap out of what is at hand, I try to work in the same way. There is a necessity to the building that takes place in nature, connecting threads to branches, weaving fibers and straw together, connecting young to old, etc. To connect with the activity and ingenuity and the sensations as well as the loss of the natural world is a necessity for my art. As is to connect to memory, to time and to emotion.” — Eva Mantell
work
Naturally, 2017, plastic straws and wire, size variable.
The Reveal, 2017, acrylic and magazine pages on wooden panel, 16 x 16 inches.
Nerves (Chasing Coral), 2017, wires, words, antique plant stand, 14 x 14 x 41 inches.
Nerves (Let Go), 2017, extension cords, 30 x 20 x 20 inches.
Scholar’s Rock, 2016, acrylic and magazine pages, mixed media on canvas, 40 x 30 inches.
Eolica, 2015, acrylic and magazine pages on canvas, 40 x 60 inches.