Mandy Main

Urban Canyon II, Oil Painting

2024

Artist Comments
A cityscape features a yellow sky slicing down like a bolt of lightning between rows of Manhattan skyscrapers. The tall, thin shape of the painting emphasizes the verticality of the subject. While buildings are depicted with limited detail, intriguing shapes emerge through interplay of light and shadow. Glints of light sparkle where intersections and windows are illuminated. The palette includes tones of black, white, gray, blues, and yellows. Textured gessoed tissue adds depth to the underlying canvas.

About the Artist
Mandy Main is an art historian and landscape painter based in the Southern California desert. She has long been passionate about 19th Century American landscape paintings, which has been influential in her artistic practice. Mandy works in series, generally three paintings at a time. Her process begins with a vision of a place she has been, but she takes creative liberties with the aesthetic details. The artist is captivated by light and shadow, and strives to instill her work with moody drama through the representation of these elements. Using layers of paint and glazes, Mandy achieves mesmerizing atmospheric depth, encouraging the viewer to gaze and be still.

Words that describe this painting: cityscape, city, buildings, skyscrapers, New York, Manhattan, urban, NYC, vertical, architecture, contemporary, oil painting, brown

Urban Canyon II
Mandy Main
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Finished black edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2024
36 in. h x 12 in. w x 1.5 in. d
2 lbs. 2 oz.