Conceptual and pre-literate, Mandad's work explores profundity, authenticity, banality and humor, bringing these abstract notions into tense harmony. Mandad is a quintessential mixed-media artist working with many materials and techniques. As one art critic put it: "It's impossible to describe the eclecticism, irony, ritual and humor that permeate Mandad's work, but it's fun to try." Since the 1980's when Keith Haring, David Hockney and Pee Wee Herman, among many others, acquired his work, one of Mandad's early and continuing projects has been "The Animism Series." Commenting on and informed by the commonality of all things and mass production, it was prescient of the art/toy movement that came primarily from Japan and Hong Kong in the 1990's. Comprised of one-of-a-kind, hand-made (no molds) polyurethane and silicone works of cartoon-like characters, the most prolific of the series is "Cat." The work is produced as large and small sculpture, chromogenic and digital prints and t-shirts. The series includes animals and inanimate objects, such as TV, Toaster, Phone, Tree and Bear. For 25 years Mandad has exhibited in museums and galleries and is in private collections from Taipei to New York to Palm Springs. He was Artist- In-Residence at Science World in Vancouver, curator of the "Altered Mona Show" in Brno, Moravia, Czech Republic and participated in the first post- revolution retrospective of the legendary Czech dissident group "Crusader School of Pure Humor Without a Joke,” held at the Central Gallery of Bohemia in Prague. In 1997 he founded "The Creative Workshop" for developmentally disabled adults in Sechelt, British Columbia, which continues to this day. A native of Birkenhead, England, Mandad currently works in the high desert near Joshua Tree, California and Brooklyn, New York.