Mirabel Wigon
Offshore, 2022
oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
C-lective Curator’s Cut:
Mirabel Wigon’s Offshore presents a layered coastal scene, a quiet nod to the San Francisco Bay, that balances between the familiar and the abstract. Her use of deep blues and rich purples goes beyond mood; these colors shape how the work is experienced. They draw us into a state of immersive reflection. Fragmented industrial forms emerge within the composition, prompting a meditation on how human development intersects with and alters the natural world. In this way, Offshore echoes Wigon’s broader practice: reimagining our relationship to place, time, and environmental complexity.
Mirabel Wigon, MFA
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Her works have been featured in numerous group exhibitions both regionally and nationally. Her recent work has been exhibited in Arcadia at Visalia Art Center in Visalia, CA; Into the Thicket at Strata Gallery in Santa Fe, NM; Hollow Veil at Axis Gallery in Sacramento, CA; New Voices at the Jacki Headley University Art Gallery in Chico, California; Made in California at Brea Gallery in Brea, CA; and Painted 2021: 5th Biennial Survey at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. She recently attended an artist residency at Vermont Studio Center.
She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Traditional Art from California State University, East Bay and her Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting from California State University, Long Beach. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art at California State University, Stanislaus where she teaches drawing and painting.
My artistic practice at its heart critiques the flawed modernist project through the exemplification of environmental signifiers that are emblematic of Anthropocene.
My work offers a visual experience which invites the viewer to contemplate the role of land(scape) in shaping the cultural imaginary.
The paintings' surface complexity is a product of the continual accumulation of visual imagery and materials. The scenes depicted in my paintings are contradictions, where form and gesture take on multiple aspects
“My oeuvre addresses notions of progress, instability, and system collapse as it relates to the built and natural environment.”
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