Mirabel Wigon

Undulating Topography, 2022

oil on canvas

48 x 60 inches

$ 10,000

C-lective Curator’s Cut:

Undulating Typography glows with a warm, radiant palette where waves of blue and green drift across shifting fields of color. The painting feels elemental, like standing at the edge where desert heat meets cool ocean air, where currents of warmth flicker and dissolve into softer breezes. Structured grid lines underpin the painting, introducing a technological framework that both organizes and interrupts the organic flow. Light moves across layered planes that seem to intersect and overlap, reinforcing the push and pull between natural forces and constructed, man-made systems. True to its title, the work reads almost like a visual language in motion, where form, rhythm, and structure rise and fall in dynamic conversation.

Mirabel Wigon

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.

“My oeuvre addresses notions of progress, instability, and system collapse as it relates to the built and natural environment.”

  • 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

  • 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

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.

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