Jonathan Mandell

Jonathan Mandell has been creating fine art mosaics for the last

fifteen years. After receiving an MFA from the Graduate School of FIne Arts

at the University of Pennsylvania, he opened his business, Jonathan Mandell

Designs Inc. Initially the focus was on Judaic themed work. From this

Jonathan expanded his focus to sports themes, portraits, landscapes and a

range of other fine art images. Jonathan has been pursuing mosaic from a

range of approaches, creating sculptural work as well as bas relief glass

mosaics.

Jonathan’s mosaics can be seen throughout the country. In his home

town of Philadelphia, his mosaics are on permanent display at the Citizens

Bank Park, The University of Pennsylvania at Steinhardt Hall, The Liberty

Museum, Delaware Valley College, The Perelman Jewish Day School, Temple

Beth Hillel, Temple Adath Israel, the Jewish Federation Building, the United

Way building, The National Museum of American Jewish History, Gratz

College, Overbrook High School, the Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for

Jewish Living, among other sites.

Jonathan’s work has been exhibited at Yeshiva University Museum

and is on permanent display in New York at the McGraw Hill Company. Mosaic

installations are in public sites throughout the country, including New York,

Minneapolis, Boston, and Las Vegas. Jonathan has been featured in the

Bel Aire Hotel Magazine, Glass Art Magazine, The Penn Gazette, and

Billiard Digest, among other publications.

Mandell’s talent lies in his translation of fine art concerns such as

perspective and color composition into the craft of mosaic. His use of

materials (glass, ceramic tile, semiprecious stones, minerals, mirror,

marbles, petrified wood), color, composition and the language of the surface

topography all add to the richness of the mosaic.

RESUME

Museum Exhibition:

Creighton University Art Gallery, Omaha, NE

Akeda fall 1997- fall 1999 traveling exhibit

B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington D.C.

Realm between Realms August 1997 to December 1997

B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington D.C.

Lion invitational 1997

Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY

Sacred Realm -The Emergence of the Synagogue in the Ancient World 1996

Public Commissions:

The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, lobby mosaic 48”x36” The

Jewish Exponent, 2004

The Philadelphia Phillies, Citizens’ Ball Park, two mosaics, a 96”x72” Ballpark

scene and a 72”x48” portrait of Jim Thome at Bat, 2004

Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, PA, Lifetime Achievement Award

created for author Chiam Potok, 2003 (18”x18”)

Hillel of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Timeline of the

History of the Jewish People, 2003 (120”x 72”)

Temple Beth Hillel/Beth El, Wynnewood, PA, 2002 (60”x60”) Sacred Realm

Bet Shalom Synagogue, Minneapolis, MN, 2002 (92”x109”)

Overbrook High School, Philadelphia, PA, Wilt Chamberlain as a Young Man,

2001 (8’x3’)

Abramson Center for Jewish Life, Horsham, PA Western Wall, 2001 (8’x3’)

Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia-Tzedakah Box, 2000

(38”x16”x16”)

Temple Beth Sholom, Las Vegas, NV-The Jewish Path , 2000 (7’D)-floor

National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA-Tolerence Proclamation, 1999

(60”x24”)

United Way of Southeastern PA and Jewish Federation of Greater

Philadelphia-50 Years of Community, Philadelphia, PA, 1999 (24”x36”)

National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA

Time Capsule, 1999 (24”x24”x24”)

Perelman/Schechter Day School, Wynnewood, PA Perelman Schechter Day

School , 1998 (60”x60”)

Temple Israel, Swampscott, MA Temple Israel 50th , 1998 (48”x36”)

Temple Adath Israel, Merion, PA Temple Adath Israel 50th, 1997 (56”x38”)

Public Commissions:

The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York, NY Burning Bush

1997 (60”x60”)

Delaware Valley College, Doylestown, PA Delaware Valley College ,1997

(60”x60”)

American Friends of Hebrew University, New York, NY Hebrew University of

Jerusalem , 1997 (24”x24”)

Adas Israel Synagogue, Washington, D.C. Olive Tree , 1994 (108”x128”)

Gratz College, Melrose Park, PA Torah Ark , 1990 (96”x65”)

Galleries:

Houshang's Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2006
The Art Gallery of Lakeland, Lakeland, FL 2006

Rice-Polak Gallery, Boston, MA, Fall, 2005

The Habatat Gallery, Great Barrington, MA -May, 2005

George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA -April 2005

The Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA -May 2005

OK Harris Gallery, New York (March 2004)

Blatt Billiards, New York, NY

Camino Real Gallery, Boca Raton, FL

Paul Fisher Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL

Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR

Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA

Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL

E.R. Tipper Gallery, Witicha, KS

Gracie Lawrence Gallery, Delray Beach, FL

Corporate Collections:

WP Realty, Haverford, PA 2006

McGraw-Hill Co., New York, NY- in permanent art collection, 1999

Recognition:

Honored by the Philadelphia Jewish Archive Center, Philadelphia, PA

May 2005

Featured on the cover of Main Line Ticket, August 5, 2004

Western Wall mosaic was used by Hallmark Inc. for card production July 2004

Artwork featured in Billiard Digest, April 2004 issue.

Mosaic image used by St. Paul University, Living with Christ publication,

March 2004

Bar Scene mosaic included in Artists for a Cool Planet project, Danby Art

Cooler

Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, PA, Lifetime Achievement Award

created for author Chiam Potok to be used as cover art for their annual

catalog.

Inaugural artist at Steinhardt Hall, University of Pennsylvania Sept. 2003

Featured in the Sept./Oct. of The Penn Gazette, 2003

Featured in the Winter issue of Aging with Style magazine, 2003

Featured in Sept./Oct. issue of Glass Art Magazine, 2002

Featured in the Seattle Post Intellgencer March 4, 2002

Mosaic dog highest selling at auction for Dogs Unleashed competition, 2002

Mosaics featured in Bel-Aire Hotel Magazine, vol.9, no.2, 2001

Yom Kippur mosaic used by Women of Reform Judaism, publication 2001

Sacred Realm mosaic-cover art for Moment Magazine media kit, 1999

Cover story, Jewish Exponent January 21, 1999

Mosaic images featured as cover art for shell cards for State of Israel

Bonds-North American Women’s Division, New York, NY 1999

Sacred Realm, Lions of Judah, and Garden of Eden mosaics selected by the

Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia a cover art for their donor

recognition cards, 1998

Burning Bush mosaic featured as cover art for JTS Magazine, winter 1998

Hebrew University of Jerusalem mosaic used for shell card by the American

Friends of Hebrew University, 1998

Sacred Realm mosaic selected as cover art for The Jewish Reporter,

November 1997

Sacred Realm mosaic selected by the United Jewish Appeal as cover art for

their shell cards to be distributed to Federation offices nationally, 1997

Olive Tree selected for inclusion in the internationally distributed, United

Synagogue of America calendar, 1996

Teaching:

The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA - A painterly

approach to mosaics, 2006

Education:

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Master of Fine Arts degree,

1990

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Bachelor of Arts degree, 1984