Queen # 14. Print

Drew Mandigo is an artist living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. After a more than thirty year career in Commercial Animation that took him around the world, working in cities such as Paris, London, Berlin, Shanghai, Seoul, Montreal, Toronto and Castelan, Spain, Drew ultimately settled back in his hometown of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He has always been involved in some way in the Arts, and joined the Board of Directors of The Council for the Arts In Ottawa in 2007, serving for a number of years, and finally served as Board President. He continually created art work, and gravitated to Digital Arts around 2012, and has been prolific in that meduim ever since. He continually creates new series of works of digital collages, utilizing snippets of images pulled from the internet, including images of 50's era fashion, film, burlesque and beyond. One of his more popular series, "The Auntie Mame Series" was based on the spirit of the 1958 film "Auntie Mame". He created these digital collages in 2015. Some of his work from this series were selected by The City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and Ottawa's Downtown Rideau BIA to wrap local traffic boxes showcasing the images of the digital collages. These boxes can be found on Ottawa's Rideau street scattered from Sussex Drive down to King Edward Street, which is a local Arts and Culture hub. He tends to gravitate towards a retro, colorful and witty, even cheeky edge in his work. He has exhibited his work around Ottawa at such venues as Patrick Gordon Framing, Tennessy Willems Restaurant, Mint studios, Beyond the Pale Brewery and Vimy Brewing Company, as well as the Ottawa Art Gallery's Galerie Annexe. His work has been featured in international Art Market Magazine, Issue # 62, August 2021..