We Love Mirabel. She is a Sacramento-based artist whose layered landscape paintings explore the natural and social forces shaping our world. She uses themes of human triumph and failure to imagine speculative futures grounded in co-dependency and resilience, revealing hidden worlds that help us navigate life's complexities.
Mirabel Wigon
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Bachelor of Fine Arts in Traditional Art from California State University, East Bay
Masters of Fine Art in Drawing & Painting from California State University, Long Beach
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Current Assistant Professor of Art (Drawing & Painting) at California State University, Stanislaus
Vermont Studio Center Resident (2024) and “The Place on the PCH” Resident (2023)
Recipient of multiple institutional grants at CSUS, including Teaching Initiative, Travel Fund, Instructional Activities Awards, and a $10K Research/Creative Activities Grant
Linda A. Day Endowed Student Award (2019)
Werby Marilyn Award
CSULB Provost Purchase Award
“My oeuvre addresses notions of progress, instability, and system collapse as it relates to the built and natural environment.”
Mirabel’s art explores the impact of our changing environment, using symbols that reflect the challenges of our current era. Her paintings invite viewers to think about how the land and landscape shape the stories and ideas we share as a culture. She builds up layers of images and materials on the surface of her work, creating scenes that are full of contradictions where shapes and gestures can mean different things at once.
Select Works by Mirabel
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Lattice, 2024
oil on canvas
36 x 48 inches
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Apparitions, 2022
oil on canvas
48 x 60 inches
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Offshore, 2022
oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
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Susceptible Failure, 2024
oil on canvas
48 x 48 inches
