Marvin Perry Mann
The Dance In You
oil, cold wax, mixed media on cradled wood panel
36 x 48 inches
$ 8,000.00
C-lective Curator’s Cut:
The Dance In You is a quiet yet expansive celebration of vitality and movement, unfolding across three panels as a continuous rhythm. Warm, earthy tones drift and gather, creating moments that feel like gentle bursts of energy. In person, the palette is far softer than photographs suggest, with sun-washed yellows, muted greens, and glowing oranges balanced by cooler passages of blue that allow the work to breathe. These warm moments recall the organic beauty of sunflowers, echoing cycles of growth, light, and renewal. The triptych format reinforces the idea that this celebration of life cannot be contained within a single frame, as energy flows freely from panel to panel, inviting extended looking and quiet reflection.
Marvin Perry Mann
We Love Marvin. He is a Richmond-based artist who is challenging what we know of as the American landscape painting. He creates immersive abstract experiences, tracing a poetic evolution from realism through impressionism, tonalism, and ultimately into abstraction. He’s doing things in his own, innovative way while giving a nod to classical techniques.
Marvin’s abstract landscapes draw us in through rich layers of color and texture, revealing subtle terrain and shifting emotional moods. As a self-described colorist, his use of light, shadow, and tone replaces recognizable landmarks with a sense of atmosphere and feeling. His work strikes a balance between detail and openness, creating calm, meditative spaces that invite personal reflection and discovery. These landscapes aren’t depictions of real places, but rather imagined environments formed on canvas or board while Marvin reminisces on his favorite moments in nature. They encourage us to pause and reflect on our own connections to the natural world.
“My hope is that the audience will get lost in my paintings and, on reflection, discover something they hadn’t before.”
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Solo Exhibition at Colloquia Gallery, November 21 - December 20. (2026)
Solo Exhibition at Gallery at Dougherty Station Community Arts Center, September 1 - September 31. (2026)
2025 Sheridan Prize for Art. Honorable mention in the category of Drawing and Painting. (2025)
Honorable Mention at the Northern California Arts, Inc. Members Show, Sacramento Fine Arts Center (2025)
Solo show at ar·ti·fact gallery, Point Richmond, CA titled Sketches of Nod: Imagined Landscapes (2024)
Numerous features in publications for his work in comic illustration prior to exploring painting.
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