2023-B
Medium: Acrylic sculpture
Year: 2023
Size: 32” x 32” x 2.75”
Kal Mansur’s wall works are dimensional objects made of plexiglass. The sculpture has embedded fluorescent pigments that project color through the edges. The surrounding areas are painted, and the work is encased within a translucent panel. The artwork magnifies light, allowing the viewer to visually travel through the composition. According to Mansur, “The ability to conduct how light interacts with surfaces is my ongoing attempt to create a visual braille – a language by which color, light, and composition can be felt and not merely observed.” Click here to view Kal’s process.
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Acquired by TD Bank for their corporate art collection
Medium: Acrylic on panel, white acrylic frame
Year: 2023
Size: 48" x 48" x 2"
In Kal Mansur's new series of gold paintings he continues his exploration of changing perspectives.
His idea that most of our “differences” would be viewed as similarities with a simple change of viewing angle has been reduced to the minimum number of elements. One colour, one brush.
The angled brush strokes in the paintings create a well defined “border” or line between each section or region. These borders are only viewable because the strokes, made with a wide house painting brush, end where strokes of a different angle begin.
Painted on baltic birch panels and framed in white acrylic, these paintings hold our attention by shimmering as the light of each day and viewing angles change.
“If you just change the way you view something you might completely alter your perception of it,” says Mansur.
Medium: Acrylic on panel, white aluminum frame
Size: 30 x 30 x 1 in
Year: 2021
This painting, executed in gold acrylic, shifts with one's viewing angle. Directional brush strokes are used to create a sense of constant movement. Through this series Mansur mines the possibilities within abstraction, making a case for its plural nature by creating potent modes of interference in painting.
Medium: Acrylic sculpture
Size: 27” diameter, 2.5” depth
63.5 cm diameter, 6.35 cm depth
Year: 2022
This is a wall work made of plexiglass. Like a prism, embedded fluorescent pigments project colour through the edges. The artwork absorbs and reflects light, allowing the viewer to visually travel through the composition.
Medium: Solid acrylic slab, incised drawing, pigmented epoxy
Dimensions: 22” x 26” x 3”
Year: 2019
Deceptively simple, the NSO series was created through a combination of gestural drawing and multiple machining processes. Shadows of invisible lines are cast on the wall, as the artwork's incline creates optical effects. The series explores the ways in which transparency carries unexpected consequences.
Medium: Solid acrylic slab, incised drawing, pigmented epoxy
Year: 2020
Deceptively simple, the NSO series was created through a combination of gestural drawing and multiple machining processes. Shadows of invisible lines are cast on the wall, as the artwork's incline creates optical effects. The series explores the ways in which transparency carries unexpected consequences.
Medium: Acrylic on panel, white acrylic frame
Year: 2023
Size: 48" x 48" x 2"
In Kal Mansur's new series of paintings he continues his exploration of changing perspectives. His idea that most of our “differences” would be viewed as similarities with a simple change of viewing angle has been reduced to the minimum number of elements. The angled brush strokes in the paintings create a well defined “border” or line between each section or region. These borders are only viewable because the strokes — made with a wide house painting brush — end where strokes of a different angle begin. Painted on baltic birch panels and framed in white acrylic, these paintings hold our attention by shimmering as the light of each day and viewing angles change. “If you just change the way you view something you might completely alter your perception of it,” says Mansur.
This artwork ships worldwide. Please be aware that shipping fees are not included. The studio will contact you to confirm these costs.
Medium: Acrylic on panel, white acrylic frame
Year: 2023
Size: 48" x 48" x 2"
Kal Mansur distills the interplay of light and surface to a succinct, minimal expression. His new series of paintings are made with metallic gold paint and a house painting brush. On first impression, the surfaces appear to be divided into geometric fields of varying shades of gold, some more yellow; some more brown. But move around and you will see the lighter and darker areas swap places. The colours shift depending on your point of view and the angle of light. Move in close and you’ll notice that the sharply defined geometry is textured with prominent brush marks. You’ll also notice that the paintings are completely monochrome. The appearance of different shades is solely due to the textured surface. In this work, no single view is resolved. Whereas some elements suggest receding depth, other elements contradict this reading. We are left with a kind of fragmented space that folds back and forth and eventually leads back to the flat surface of the artwork. The work questions the solidity of borders and their role in mediating everyday life. “If you just change the way you view something you might completely alter your perception of it,” says Mansur.
—The series was reviewed by Mikael Sandblom for artoronto.ca
This artwork ships worldwide. Please be aware that shipping fees are not included. The studio will contact you to confirm these costs.
Medium: Acrylic sculpture
Year: 2023
Size: 32” x 32” x 2.75”
Kal Mansur’s wall works are dimensional objects made of plexiglass. The sculpture has embedded fluorescent pigments that project color through the edges. The surrounding areas are painted, and the work is encased within a translucent panel. The artwork magnifies light, allowing the viewer to visually travel through the composition. According to Mansur, “The ability to conduct how light interacts with surfaces is my ongoing attempt to create a visual braille – a language by which color, light, and composition can be felt and not merely observed.” Click here to view Kal’s process.