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Lower Merion Mosaic This 10 ft. x 6ft mosaic was commissioned by the Lower Merion School District for the main entranceway of the newly constructed Lower Merion High School. The design features a rendering of the previous school building (1963-2010) centered in the composition. It is surrounded by images that illustrate the various facets of Lower Merion High School and its rich history. The panels are made using ceramic tile. Some feature the use of additional materials including metals, semi-precious stones, minerals and glass (curved glass shards, glass gems and marbles) in their composition. The precise shaping, placement and spacing of the pieces of color creates the grout lines. The grout lines are designed to act as drawing lines, creating the illusion of depth perspective and the volume of form. Starting in the upper left corner there is a depiction of the girls’ swim team. This panel features metal tile and copper. The window view in the background was made using blue quartz and amazonite (teal, also a quartz variety). Moving clockwise, the next panel features the art department. The printing papers were rendered using a brown and black dendritic jasper, red brecciated jasper as well as orange feldspar. Continuing to the right, the next panel features the theater club, the Lower Merion Players. The red shawl on the woman towards the right side of the group was made using curved glass shards. The next panel to the right is the 1996 AAAA state championship boys’ basketball team with captain, number 33, Kobe Bryant. Next, in the upper right hand corner is a depiction of the vocal arts program. This panel was made using glass shards, brass, orange scheelite, and red friedelite with a zinc ore matrix. The next row down, on the left depicts a slice-of-life scene of kids hanging out. Continuing with the vein of slice-of-life imagery, the next panel is of a boy at a water fountain. This panel features metal tile and granite. Next is a vintage Lower Merion pennant. This borders on the central image, which is a rendering of the previous high school building (1963-2010). It features metal tile and actual brick removed from the school building itself. Moving to the right, the next is the Lower Merion High School crest. Continuing to the right is a recreation of a 1950’s era Lower Merion Enchiridion senior yearbook photograph strip recreated in sepia tones. Next is a rendering of a vintage Lower Merion Aces button with the bulldog mascot. To the right of this is the girls’ crew team. This panel features glass shards. The next row down, starting from the left, is an image of the instrumental music program. Continuing to the right there is an image featuring a couple of Lower Merion cheerleaders with the bulldog mascot. The next panel is a recreation of the Lower Merion newspaper masthead, The Merionite. To the right of the central high school image, there is a robotics club scene. This panel features aluminum, copper, marbles, and red birds-eye rhyolite. Continuing to the right is a rendering of the long time Lower Merion slogan, “Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve”. This quotation, carved in limestone, was reclaimed from the Ardmore Junior High School building (1924-1978 - demolished 1992). On the bottom row, starting from the left is a portrait of John “Fritz” Brennan (1913-1988), the long time football coach, athletic director and vice-principal of Lower Merion High School. The next panel to the right depicts the celebration of the victory in the Lower Merion versus Radnor High School football trophy (circa 1980). Metal tile was used to recreate the trophy. The next panel to the right is another slice-of-life scene depicting the school cafeteria. This panel features the use of pink dumortierite and Morgan Hill (Poppy) jasper. The scene to the right of this is a recreation of a 1920’s era school buses in front of the main entrance of the high school (1910-1963) that preceded the one depicted in the center of this mosaic. This scene was made using Lower Merion brick (1963-2010), citrine, aluminum, brass and glass gems. The last panel in the lower right depicts teaching. This image was made using granite, Lower Merion brick (1963-2010), glass shards, brass and zebra marble. -Jonathan Mandell, c 2010
Lower Merion High School - Commissioned work 		National Constitution Center “We the People” Mosaic The imagery of this 10 ft x 6 ft mosaic features the Preamble to the Constitution at the bottom. Above this are the 3 branches of government set behind mirror so people see themselves reflected in the government. The White House has white quartz as the windows. The flag flying is made using sodalite and a glass shard. The landscaping is amazonite. The fountain is blue lace agate. Above this is the NCC logo with its utilization of the US flag. The montage on top features images highlighting the rites of democracy -- voting, jury service, military service, serving in political office, as well as individuals who forwarded the constitutional rights process. The first scene features Immigrants looking at the statue of liberty from Ellis Island. The statue of liberty is made using iridescent glass. Next is the Seneca leader Osceola. Below this a scene of people engaging in protest. Their signs are made using yellow opalite, zebra marble, agate, and leopardskin jasper. The woman in the foreground has a dress made from rose quartz. Above this scene is a jury panel. The two people in the front row to the right have sweaters made from turetella agate (fossilized sea shell) and lavender pinite. The neckties are made from glass shards. Below this Clarence Gideon, who secured legal representation to those who could not afford it otherwise by personally petitioning the supreme court. Next is Dr. King. His eye is made from stromatalite (fossilized algae). Below this a Japanese-American soldier circa W.W.II. His buttons are made with brass. Next is a swearing in ceremony. The blue of the flag is made with blue quartz. Under this scene is an image of Brown vs. Board of Education. The newspaper is made using zebra marble. The sky is blue sodalite. The next image is a soldier. His glasses are made with glass gems. Below him is a first responder. The crest on his helmet is agate. The gauges on the fire truck are glass gems. Above is a woman voting. The voting booth is made using snowflake obsidian, leopardskin jasper and aluminum. The remainder of the mosaic is ceramic tile. -Jonathan Mandell c. 2007
"We the People" mosaic-Now at the National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA -commission 		This 30
Vote It's in our Hands- Commissioned Work 		Delaware Valley College This mosaic was commissioned by Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. It features an aerial view of the heart of the campus with the College seal in the lower right-hand corner. The majority of the mosaic is created from ceramic tile. The gate at the top center of the mosaic is made of pyrite. In the College seal, the plow and the microscope feature mirror embellishments; the torch is made from tigereye and abalone. The cornucopia features amethyst for grapes, parrotwing stone for a pear, yellow dolomite and a red petrified wood for apples. The mosaic is 60” x 60” and was created in 1997. Jonathan I. Mandell, MFA
Delaware Valley College, Doylestown, PA -commission 		National Liberty Museum Mosaic This mosaic was create for the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia, PA. It is 48
National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA -commission
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"G" Mosaic commissioned work 		This 24
Fred Blume 		Margolis Realty This 2 ft x 3 ft mosaic was made as an embellishment of the client’s business card. It was created using glass shards, ceramic tile, citrine, white quartz, brass and aluminum. It features buildings from the Philadelphia skyline above the client’s name. -Jonathan Mandell c. 2006
Margolis Realty -commission 		This 36
Lost Highway -Commissioned Work 		Bar Scene The majority of this mosaic (48” x 28”) is created using ceramic tile. Various semiprecious stones and minerals were also used to embellish the imagery. Cosmopolitans are made using a combination of rose quartz and white quartz. Draft beers are pictured using either orange calcite or blue tigereye. The clothing of the patrons feature: turquoise, sodalite, chevron amethyst, unakite, turitella agate, bluelace agate, chrysocolla, orange gneiss. The liquor bottles are made with Australian tigereye, leopard skin jasper, yellow jasper, red agate, pietersite, mookite jasper, ruby in zoisite, and picture jasper. The bar is made with a nickel tile and the serving trays and beer taps are made with a brass tile. The perspective used in the figures contrasts the flat lack of perspective in the floor. This flatness and the use of color allows the floor set a pulsating “bar scene” tone to the piece. Jonathan Mandell, © 2002
Bar Scene -sold
Bar/ Restaruant This mosaic depicts a bar restaurant scene. It is made using brass, aluminum, white quartz, rose quartz, glass, turitella agate, ryolite, abalone, tigereye, bluelace agate, carnelian, amethyst, amazonite, turquoise, unakite, yellow dentritic opal, sodalite, howlite, mariposite and leopardskin jasper. It is (30
Bar/ Restarant Scene -commission 		Bar Scene #2 This 36”x36” mosaic image is based on a compositional design created by Al Hirschfeld in his drawing of the Monkey Bar at the Hotel Elyse in New York City. I admired how he brought the ceiling down into the composition. This mosaic was created using over fifty different materials including semiprecious stones, minerals, glass, shells and metals. The ceiling is made out of nickel. The bar top, table tops and server trays are copper. The cash register is brass. The bar glasses are glass gems. The liquor bottles are all different stones; leopard skin jasper, turquoise (reconstituted), turquoise (natural), wonderstone (swirling white, red, yellow), aventurine (green), turritella agate (fossilized sea shells), sandstone (red), orange gneiss, red and yellow jasper, howlite (white), crazy lace agate (blue& white), mariposite (green & white), serpentine (lime green), sodalite (blue), picture jasper, green agate, rhodonite (pink), rainbow fluorite (purple), rainbow calcite silica, hickoryite (red & yellow swirls), and red jasper. The sculpture at the top of the shelving is made from an ametrine sphere (purple), hematite (metallic) and two varieties of shells. The recessed light above this is made from citrine as is the wall sconce on the right side of the composition. The counter top is granite. The column is made from three varieties of marble. The painting at the rear right is made with citrine and peridot. and abalone. The painting on the right side wall is made using sodalite (blue), stromatolite (fossilized algae), dendrite yellow jasper, serpentine and red jasper. All the paintings are framed with golden tiger-eye. The woman singing is wearing a dress made from rainbow calcite. Her necklace is peridot and her bracelet is galena. Her microphone is nickel. The woman at the near bar is wearing a dress made from thulite (pink). The woman at the end is wearing a dress made from chevron amethyst. The cosmopolitan cocktails are made from rose quartz and white quartz. The remaining cocktail glasses are made from quartz. The woman at the bottom of the composition on the right side is wearing a dress made from snow flake obsidian. Her necklace is pyrite as is the wall hanging above the bar. The plant is made from jade, aventurine (green) and two varieties of shells. The table posts are also made from shell. The men’s neckties are made from blue lace agate, orange carnelian, and unakite (pink and green). The woman on the right side of the composition who is cut partially cut off is wearing a dress made from red brachiated jasper. -Jonathan Mandell, c. 2004
Bar Scene #2 -commission 		Restaurant Interior This mosaic captures the movement of a restaurant. The majority of the surface is ceramic tile. The framing around the landscape images is golden tigereye. The patron along the rear wall, nearest to the kitchen, is wearing a shirt made of crazylace agate. The next table over, the woman is wearing a maraposite dress and her companion a leopard skin jasper shirt. Next to them the waiter has a knife made from abalone. The waiter in the lower left is serving from a tray made from abalone as well, as is the gentleman’s spoon in the central table. In the foreground, the woman waiving is wearing a necklace of marbles. Her companion is drinking a beer from a glass made of white quartz. The water boy next to him is carrying a water pitcher made of chrysocolla. This mosaic is 24” x 24”. Jonathan I. Mandell, MFA © 2000
Restaurant Interior -Sold 		Night Club Scene This mosaic 36” x 36” creates the feel of live music at a night club. The upper left left corner is mirror. Behind the bartender are liquor bottles made of orange gneiss, turquoise, and rhodchrosite. The bar rail is brass and the legs of the chairs are aluminum. The drum skins are white quartz and the symbols are brass. The bass drum skin is rhodonite (pink and white). The lead singer is wearing a dress made of mookite jasper. Her microphone is made of aluminum. The foliage on the tree in the upper right is made using aventurine and jade. The trunk of the plant is a shell. The artwork on the wall is framed in golden tiger-eye. The landscape is created using rhodonite (pink), red jasper, and a stone which features a three way mixture of quartz, malachite and chrysocolla (turquoise color). The gentleman at the left of the composition has a leopardskin jasper tie. The woman next to him has a dress made of the same material. Next to her is a woman wearing a snowflake obsidian dress. Her bracelet and earring is pyrite. The man she is dancing with has an amazonite tie. The man in the lower left has a tie made from chrysocolla and bromyrite. Next to him the woman to his right has a dress made of rose quartz. Above her and to the right the woman is wearing an amethyst dress. The man to the right and below her is wearing a tie made of rainbow calcite silica. -Jonathan Mandell c. 2004
Night Club Scene -available for sale contact the artist 		Trumpet Player This 24”x24” mosaic was made using ceramic tile, brass, aluminum, glass shards, tigereye, white quartz, pyrite and leopardskin jasper -Jonathan Mandell c.2006
Trumpet Player- available for sale contact the artist

Piano Music available for sale, contact the artist 		A Toast to our Blessings This 42”x 48” mosaic is a family portrait. It is an experiment in shifting perspective. The perspective is aerolized from the bottom right. As the viewer moves from right to left the perspective shifts lower until it reaches its lowest vantage out by the decking. The majority of this mosaic is ceramic tile. The floor is granite. The wine glasses are made with chevron amethyst and white quartz. The silverware is made with nickel covered tile as are the salt and pepper shakers. The female figure at the center bottom of the composition is wearing a skirt made of fancy jasper. The male figure with the brown hair (next to female figure in black shirt) has a shirt made of leopard skin jasper. The bread on the table, next to the turkey, is made from yellow dendritic jasper. The greens in the salad are made from green jade. The bowl containing the green beans is made from rhodonite. The side dish next to this (in the yellow bowl) is depicted with turritella agate (fossilized seashells). The modernist painting on the rear wall is created using mookite jasper. -Jonathan Mandell c. 2003
A Toast to our Blessings -commission 		Art Museum Gallery This mosaic captures an interior scene of people interacting in an art museum gallery. The painting in the upper left has a sodalite sky, and an Australian tigereye and parrotwing stone (malachite, chrysocolla, hematite) landscape. The interrupted painting to the right of this is made from fancy jasper. The sculpture to the right of the rear museum guard is a seashell with a pyrite base. The guards wristwatch is also pyrite. The painting to the left of this has a golden tigereye frame surrounding an image made from mookite jasper. The mobile is made from turquoise, fossilized coral (red), yellow fluorite, an ametrine sphere (purple), abalone, marbles, and steel wire. Below the mobile, the text on the wall is made from white quartz. The painting below the mobile is made with a yellow dendrite, banded onyx (red/orange), a chrysocolla, malachite and white quartz conglomerate, and an agate (brown). The cut-off painting in the bottom right of the image also has a golden tigereye from with rhodonite (pink) as the image. The sculpture in the lower left is made of pink granite, an orange calcite sphere, and an ametrine sphere. The flooring in the gallery is white marble. The remainder of the surface is ceramic tile. This mosaic is 36î x 36î. Jonathan I. Mandell, MFA © 2001
Art Museum Gallery - sold 		Art Museum Gallery II This 36” x 36” mosaic is made using ceramic tile embellished with various semiprecious stones and minerals. The “Painting” to the left is made using turquoise, crazy lace agate, rhodonite, and tiger-eye for framing. The hand sculpture is made using gray marble with granite for a base. The painting above this is made with tiger-eye as the frame as well with sodalite, jade, stromatolite (brown), yellow dendritic jasper, and rhrodochrosite. This text by the painting is howlite (white). The painting next over is made with red tiger-eye, green chrysoprase, blue sodalite and golden tiger-eye for framing. The mobile is made using aluminum, abalone, a pietersite sphere, a unakite sphere, a glass marble, a Plexiglas sphere and a dalmatian jasper sphere. The painting on the right side of the composition is made with a tiger-eye frame and Indian paint stone. The text by it is howlite as well. The gentlemen in the green jacket has an amethyst tie. The gentleman with the purple jacket has a yelllow marble tie and aluminum for glasses. The little girl in the middle of the composition has a shirt made from orange gneiss. -Jonathan Mandell c. 2004
Art Museum Gallery II- available for sale contact the artist 		As I Dream of Venus This mosaic represents a dreamscape with a portrait of the artist’s head from the back, viewing the scene of Venus by the water’s edge. The nocturnal sky is made using snowflake obsidian. The spheres are green aventurine, rose quartz, and dalmatian jasper. The figure is made using two varieties of marble, with the eyes being blue bahi granite. The water is blue bahi granite as well. The artist’s head is made from two varieties of marble as well. -Jonathan Mandell c. 2004
As I Dream of Venus-available for sale contact the artist
Musical Theater This 36” x 24” mosaic is made using ceramic tile, marramamba tigereye, white marble and gray granite. It is intended to give the feel of a musical production with the characters in the composition singing. -Jonathan Mandell c. 2005
Musical Theater - sold 		Curtain Call This 48” x 24” mosaic depicts a curtain call as seen from behind the loge box. It features the players on the stage as well as the orchestra and the audience as seen from above and below. The spot lights are made using citrine and rose quartz. The canisters for the rose quartz lights are made using aluminum. The brass instruments such horns and cymbals are made with brass. The rest of the surface is made using ceramic tile. -Jonathan Mandell c. 2005
Curtain Call- available for sale contact the artist 		Studio Interior This mosaic is titled “Studio Interior.” It is created from a variety of materials. The rug in the foreground is made from blue lace agate. The seat cushion of the chair in the lower right corner is rhodonite. The window view is made with parrotwing stone (malachite, chrysocolla, and hematite) as the ground, and sodalite as sky. The picture frame on the wall is abalone. The remainder of the surface is ceramic tile. The mosaic is 20” x 20”. Jonathan I. Mandell © 1997
Studio Interior / Ode to Matisse -sold 		Pleasant Thoughts This 24” x 24” mosaic is made using ceramic tile, glass shards and lapidary. The paintings on the walls are made using a variety of stones and minerals. The painting on the left side of the mosaic is made using rhodonite (pink), sodalite (blue), yellow dendritic jasper, agate and thulite (magenta). The painting to the right is made using. green dendritic jasper, mookite jasper (red, yellow, orange, white), blue lace agate, and a conglomerate of white quartz, malachite and chrysocolla. The framing for both paintings is made using golden tiger-eye and australian “marramamba” tiger-eye. The vase is made using abalone and glass. The woman is made using ceramic tile, glass and pyrite. The sconce on the back wall is made using citrine. -Jonathan Mandell c. 2005
Pleasant Thoughts- available for sale contact the artist 		A Room With a View This mosaic is 36” x 36” x 2.5”. The frame is created with glossy and iridescent glass gems. The corners are decorated with amethyst crystals that raise off of the surface about an inch. The beaded treatment carries around to the side edge. The rug at the bottom of the image is made of crazy lace agate. The vase is abalone. The stems and leaves of the flowers are jade and aventurine. The purple flower at the bottom left is chevron amethyst, with a citrine crystal center. The pink flower to the right of this has rose quartz petals with fossilized coral as its center. The flower to the right and below has petals made from leopard skin jasper and a clear fluorite octahedron center. Above this, the yellow flower has yellow dendrite jasper petals and citrine crystal center. The flower to the left has banded jasper petals and a golden tigereye center. Next, to the left, this flower has rose quartz petals and a shell center. Above this, the top flower has onyx petals and a yellow fluorite crystal center. The painting on the wall, behind the bouquet, has a sky made from a blending of chrysocolla (aqua), malachite (green), and quartz (white). The woman has a dress made from snowflake obsidian and a necklace made of pyrite. Her eyes are chrysocolla as well. In the woman’s hand is a flower made from an amethyst stalagtite cross section.
A Room with a View -sold
Odalisque This mosaic is designed in the tradition of a classic odalisque. It features the often seen picture within a picture. The woman is eating grapes made of amethyst with aventurine leaves and a leopardskin jasper stem. The purple grapes in the foreground are made this way as well. The green grapes are made of glass gems. The center of the screen behind the chaise lounge is snowflake obsidian. The throw the woman is laying on is hickoryite. The floor is a verde marble. The rug is picture jasper. The cat is territella agate (fossilized seashells). The mountain range in the landscape is fossilized algae. The frame is made from iridescent glass gems with amethyst crystals decorating the corners. Jonathan I. Mandell, MFA © 2000
Odalisque -sold 		Citrus Orchards, Circa 1900 The mosaic is framed glass gems and fluorite. The image is made from ceramic tile with the sky being created from sodalite and rhodonite. The image calls back to a previous era when produce was brought to market by animal-drawn carts, and fruit was picked by hand. This mosaic is 48” x 24”. It is part of the permanent art collection of the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company in New York. Jonathan I. Mandell, MFA © 1999
Citrus Orchards, Circa 1900, -permanant art collection, McGraw-Hill Publishing, NY 		Schmittlein House Mosaic This 2 ft x 3 ft mosaic was commissioned by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania for an outgoing dean. It was created from photography. It features the clients house with children and dog in the foreground. The folliage is made using glass shards. The windows are glass gems and quartz. The remainder of the mosaic is made using ceramic tile. -Jonathan Mandell, MFA c. 2007
Schmittlein House, Kids and Dog -commission 		This commissioned mosaic is 36.5
AJ and the Boys -commission 		Living Room Conversation The frame is made from ceramic tile glass gems and amethyst. It wraps around the side edge. The sky in the open window is made from sodalite. The ground is parrotwing stone (malachite, chrysocolla and jasper.) The mountain in the painting on the wall to the right of the window features a moutainscape made from stromatalite (fossilized algae). The vase on the table is made of abalone. The flowers are chevron amethyst, carnelian, rose quartz, yellow jasper, white quartz, zebra marble, and tiger-eye. The woman’s dress is snowflake obsidian. Her eye is blue lace agate, her bracelet is abalone. The cat next to her is turritella agate (fossilized seashell) with tiger eye eyes and a glass nose. The rug is rose quartz. The wine glasses are tiger eye. The coasters are brass. The hors d’oeuvres are on a tray made from iridescent glass. The wine bottle is pietersite, with a leopardskin jasper label. -Jonathan Mandell, c. 2003
Living Room Conversation -commission
Poker Game This mosaic is 24”x24”. The night time sky in the window view is made using snowflake obsidian. The shirt of the man at the top left is made with leopard skin jasper. The beer being consumed by the man in the lower right is made with an agate. The objects on the bar top in the rear of the composition are made using black glass, brass, tiger eye, red jasper, hematite (silver), blue lace agate, white quartz, and zebra marble. -Jonathan Mandell c. 2003
Poker Game-available at Blatt Billiards, NY 1(800)252-8855 		Floral Study This mosaic is 30” by 30”. It features a ceramic frame with amethyst fleurets in the corner decorated with alternating green glass gems. The vase is made with abalone. The flowers are amethyst, rose quartz, carnelian, yellow quartz, howlite, rhodonite, rhodochrosite, red jasper, yellow jasper, tiger-eye, zebra marble and turitella agate (fossilized sea shells). The leaves are jade and aventurine. -Jonathan Mandell c. 2003
Floral Study -sold 		Floral Study II This mosaic is 24” x 24”. It’s frame is made from ceramic tile, glass gems and amethyst crystals. The flowers are made using: chevron amethyst, howlite, yellow quartz, zebra marble, tiger-eye, yellow jasper, carnelian, rose quartz, rhodonite, rhodochrosite, turritella agate, leopard skin jasper, citrine, blue lace agate, unakite, jade and aventurine. -Jonathan Mandell, MFA C. 2003
Floral Study II - available for sale contact the artist 		This30
Floral Study III -commission 		This 30
Floral Study IV -commission
Farmers This mosaic is made using ceramic tile. The frame is iridescent glass gems decorated with amethyst points in the four corners. The scene depicts farmers reaping the harvest from the fields. It is intended to reference impressionist imagery, both with ist subject and its framing. -Jonathan Mandell c.2000
Farmers -commission 		Beach View This mosaic is designed to offer a view of the beach as seen from a balcony. The balcony, decorated with flower boxes, interrupts the ocean view. The scene is at sunset, as the majority of the sunbathers have left for the day. If you look closely, you will see a few stragglers. This mosaic is made entirely of ceramic tile, except for the lower left corner; the balcony carpet is made from maraposite. Jonathan I. Mandell, MFA © 2000
Beach View -sold 		Bethany Beach, DE This mosaic is a 7ft x 2ft horizontal composition. It is a vista scene depicting Bethany Beach, DE. The umbrellas are made using glass shards. They have a raised quality, creating a bas relief effect across the mosaic surface. The detail of the dog in the lower right is made using textured glass with the underside painted. The bathing suits of the twin girls above the dog are made using glass tile. The books being read by the couple in the lounge chairs are made using tigereye/hematite and rhyolite. The man’s bathing suit is made using oolite (fossilized egg). The flag pole is brass. The flag is made from a glass shard and sodalite (blue). The remainer of the mosaic is ceramic tile. -Jonathan Mandell, c. 2008
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Stone Harbor Life Boat- available at William Ris Gallery Stone Harbor, NJ 		This 2ft x 3ft mosaic was made ceramic tile. The grout joints act as drawing lines bringing the imagery to life. This mosaic was created for sale at the William Ris Gallery in Stone Harbor, NJ
Stone Harbor Beach Scene- available at William Ris Gallery Stone Harbor, NJ
Maritime Scene This 8 ft x 5 ft mosaic was made using tile, white quartz, fluorite, rhodochrosite, sodalite, jade, aventurine, turitella agate, mirror, and aluminum. The white quartz and fluorite make the clouds, the rhodochrosite (red & white) and sodalite (blue). The jade and aventurine along with the turitella agate make up the palm trees. The boat pilot has mirror for sunglasses. The bridge is aluminum. -Jonathan Mandell c. 2005
Maritime Scene -commission 		Florida Golf Landscape This mosaic 3 ft x 5 ft mosaic was designed to be site specific for a residence. It features a panoramic golf scape scene. The flowers in the lower left are made using a variety of pink stones. The flower at the top left is made using rose quartz (with hematoid inclusion), below and to the right, the next flower is rhodonite. The flower below this to the right is more of the above described rose quartz. Continuing down and to the left this flower is another variety of rhodonite with a black webbing matrix. Below this flower to the left the next is made using thulite. To the right the next flower is made using a purer variety of rose quartz. Continuing down is another thulite flower and then to the left, is one made from perthite. Lastly, below this is more rhodonite. Each flower has a center made of tumbled citrine with one being a citrine crystal raising from the mosaic surface. The green leaves around these flowers are made using amazonite and buddstone. Above middle in the composition, the spill off from the sand trap is made from turritella agate (fossilized sea shells). The palm tree bark is made using leopard skin jasper and the palm leaves are made using a combination of tumbled, fancy jasper, jade, and aventurine. The bushes by the houses are made using tumbled amazonite. The sky is made using ceramic tile and blue lace agate. The clouds are white quartz. The alligator in the lower right is made using a ceramic tile which is slightly thicker, giving the gator a raised effect. The gator’s eye is made using zebra marble. The remainder of the mosaic is ceramic tile. -Jonathan Mandell c. 2006
Florida Golf Landscape -commission 		Boardwalk Scene This 24”x24” mosaic features a boardwalk scene. The rails are made with aluminum. The dog at the bottom of the composition is made from turretilla agate (fossilized sea shells) and glass. The dog above this is tiger-eye and glass. The railing is aluminum. The man on the bicycle is wearing a shirt made using fancy jasper. The headlight of his bicycle is citrine. The man on the park bench is reading a newspaper made with granite. The woman next to his has a bikini top of amethyst. The man with the red hair in the center of the composition has mirror for glasses. -Jonathan Mandell, c. 2004
Boardwalk Scene -sold 		Beach Scene This mosaic captures summer on the beach. The upper left corner has an aluminum cold chest. The boy flying the kite is wearing swim trunks made using glass. The woman walking along the shore has a bathing suit made of leopardskin jasper. The man she is with has a bathing suit made of golden tigereye. Behind them is a piece of abalone. In front of them a couple of shells.The man on the pink lounge chair has an orange carnelian bathing suit. His sunglasses are aluminum. The man on the blue towel has mirrored eyes. The woman on the yellow towel has iridescent glass for sun glasses and a shirt made using green chrysoprase. Her shorts are made using amethyst. The remainder of the mosaic is ceramic tile. This mosaic is 24” x24” -Jonathan Mandell c, 2004
Beach Scene - sold 		5000 Boardwalk Pool Scene This 24” x 24” mosaic is based on the scene at the pool deck at the 5000 Boardwalk in Ventnor, NJ. It is made using ceramic tile, glass shards, chrysocolla (teal), wonderstone (red and yellow), granite (gray and white), aluminum, snowflake obsidian(black and gray), moss agate (green and white), amethyst, rhyolite (white and red) and mirror. -Jonathan Mandell c. 2005
5000 Boardwalk Pool Scene -commission
Self-Portrait in Spring This mosaic is titled “Self-Portrait in Spring.” It is created from a variety of materials. The shirt of the central figure is lepidolite. The figure’s eyes are mirror. The piece of paper he is holding is crazylace agate, as are the eyes of the woman on the blanket. The dog in the upper right corner is made of territella agate (fossilized seashells). The dog’s collar is pyrite. The tree trunk he is standing next to is petrified wood. The dog in the upper left corner is made of larvikite. The remainder of the surface is ceramic tile. The mosaic is 20” x 20”. Jonathan I. Mandell © 1997
Self Portrait in Spring -sold 		Dogs in the Park This 24” x 24” mosaic was created using glass shards, ceramic tile and glass gems. The glass shards create a topography across the mosaic surface. This can be seen in the tree line and the man’s shirt. The man’s newspaper is made using zebra marble. The glass gems are used for the dog’s eyes and nose. They create the wet quality that a dog’s nose would have. . The mosaic frame was created to work with the colors in the pictoral part of the image. -Jonathan Mandell c. 2007
Dogs in the Park- Sold 		Jewish Publication Society Lifetime Achievement Award This 18”x 18” mosaic was created for the Jewish Publication Society for use as an annual award. This first one is to be given posthumously to the family of author, Chaim Potok. The mosaic features a tree, as does the JPS logo. The tree bark is made from bronzite. The foliage of tree is zoisite. This stone features small patches of granulated ruby mixed into the green zoisite and black matrix. At the base of the tree is a rising sun made from carnelian and citrine. Below the tree is an image of an open book in perspective. The sky is made with glass gems. The frame is ceramic tile with glass gems and citrine crystals creating fleurets in the corners. -Jonathan Mandell, c. 2003
Jewish Publication Society Lifetime Achievement Award -commission
 
 
 
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