Michael Mangino

Michael Angelo Mangino is a painter living in Pittstown NJ. He attends Delaware Valley Regional High School’s continuation program, FIERCE, and paints from Studio Route 29 in Frenchtown NJ. His work has been shown at Beauty Gallery NJ, ArtYard NJ, Center for Creative Works PA, and Open Invitational FL.

About Michael Angelo Mangino's work:

Michael Angelo Mangino’s manner of mark making often proceeds first with long lines, which are then filled in carefully and exploratively with shorter marks bringing into the paintings a sense of the slow movement of moss or a vine. Or, they are built as roof thatch; they are the ocean from above, wave going ahead of wave, they are patient, balanced stone walls. They call to mind topography, maybe because they are painted flat and turned as they are worked with shapes fitting carefully into others as meadows to mountains, or buildings to avenues. New to his work are connecting marks - fitted to adjoin color fields to one another or to separate them. Like little fissures or sparks, they open or charge the larger surfaces nearby.

In his text work Mangino deftly forms short poetic sequences atop his familiar abstract painted structures, myriad narratives and scenes brought to life from succinct means.