Art Show at Pug Mahone's
June 2, 2013 (Tallahassee, FL)

Pug Mahone's Irish Pub and Grill / Group Show
Details about this event are still TBA, but MANDEM will be attending the art event at Pug Mahone's on Sunday, June 2. Visit the venue's website at pugmahones.com and watch for announcements with more information soon.

Show Title TBA: First Friday Art Show
June 7, 2013 (Tallahassee, FL)

Working Method Contemporary / Two-Person Show
MANDEM will be teaming up with artist Victoria He, with whom we shared exhibit space at the Fountain Art Fair in Miami, for this First Friday show. Details are still TBA, but you can expect this show to debut some of MANDEM's sculpture, installation, and film work. Visit the Working Method Contemporary gallery website here, or learn more about the Railroad Square Art Park: http://railroadsquare.com.

Show Title TBA: First Friday Art Show
July 5, 2013 (Tallahassee, FL)

Right On! Gallery / Solo Show
While most of the details are still TBA, you can expect this exhibit to debut a number of photographic works by MANDEM. Railroad Square Art Park hosts one of the best free art events in Florida: the First Fridays Gallery Hop. Part art reception and part carnivale, visitors to the First Fridays event enjoy numerous art galleries, a vintage flea market, live music and dancing, food, and even circus acts. Learn more about the Railroad Square Art Park: http://railroadsquare.com.

Dragon*Con Art Show 2013
August 30 - September 2, 2013 (Atlanta, GA)

Grand Hall West of the Hyatt Regency / Juried Group Show
Dragon*Con is the largest science fiction, fantasy, and pop-culture convention of its type in the world, with an attendance of over 52,000 people. Competition to get into the art show is intense, and we are honored to be in attendance Labor Day Weekend, 2013. The Art Show is open Friday-Monday during the convention. To learn more about Dragon*Con, visit their website.

Show Title TBA: baade/mandem/mazza
September 17 - November 5, 2013, 2013 (Tallahassee, FL)

City Hall Art Gallery / Three-Person Show
The works of artists Carrie Ann Baade, Jim Mazza, and MANDEM will be on display for this show, which is being organized by the Council on Culture and Arts. Stay tuned for more details about this exciting event. If you'll be in the area, don't miss this.

(Learn about past shows here.)

MANDEM is a symbiotic pair of transdigital -punk artists, Maize Arendsee and Moco Steinman, working in both digital art and traditional art mediums such as oil painting, mische technique, mixed media, and acrylics. Our themes include: mythpunk and mythology; steampunk and alternative history; cyberpunk and human-animal-machine hybrids; gothic, horror, and dark fantasy; monsters and chimeras; and queer feminist art. Important visual influences include German Expressionism; influential sci-fi fantasy artists such as Brom and Giger, and traditional painters such as Maxfield Parrish, John Atkins Grimshaw, and the surrealist and visionary movements. Other influences include James Barrie (Peter Pan), Lewis Carroll, Lovecraft and other Gothic Victorian writers; Bertolt Brecht and epic theater (also theater of cruelty and theater of the absurd); Robert Graves, Mircea Eliade, and the great mythographers of the Gilded Age; Jungian philosophy; the ancient Greek and Roman poets â€” especially Euripides and Ovid; and epic modern myth-makers such as Tolkein, Clive Barker, Guillermo del Toro, George Romero, and Neil Gaiman. Our work has appeared in gallery shows and we have designed album or book art for the Cruxshadows ("Dreamcypher" and "Ethernaut"), Michael Schulman ("Home"), Abney Park ("Airship Pirates" RPG), and we designed the promotional art for the Dragon*Con 2012 Horror/Dark Fantasy Track.