SEASON 14
EXHIBITS IN THE GALLERY
September 2017 - August 2018
| September 29 - October 27, 2017 (SEASON 14 LAUNCH) | Preview Reception: Thursday, September 28, 6-9pm Public Opening: Friday, September 29, 6-9pm |
main gallery
VISITATION
Manifest is proud to launch its 14th season with five galleries of paintings, with these works by Dustin London serving as the entryway in our Main Gallery. London's seven large paintings invite visitors into an energetic conversation across the gallery and through the gallery windows out onto the street and Woodburn Avenue. The dialog buzzes with the allure of the images' electronic origins, visually expressing a life that is not quite living, but vibrant and appealing nonetheless. Of his work the artist states: "I think of pictorial space as something malleable, something that is shifting and subversive. In my paintings I am looking for a finely calibrated balance of idiosyncratic elements that creates a new, oftentimes paradoxical, spatial proposition. Space is not the stage for an event; it is the event itself. Dustin London's work has been exhibited at venues including NURTUREart in Brooklyn, Heskin Contemporary in New York City, Emily Davis Gallery at the University of Akron, the Untitled Art Fair in Miami Beach, and TSA Gallery in Brooklyn. He has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, Millay Colony, Willapa Bay AiR, Jentel, Vermont Studio Center, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. London is a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and his work has been featured in New American Paintings, Fresh Paint Magazine, Paint Pulse Magazine, and The New York Times. He received a BFA from Michigan State University and a MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently lives and works in Ann Arbor, MI and is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.
This exhibition is one of 8 selected from among 139 solo proposals submitted for consideration for Manifest’s 14th season.
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AQUACHROME
Quite possibly the oldest form of painting, watercolor persists today, defying narrow categorization and broad stereotype. Practiced for centuries in concept development preliminary to 'finished' paintings made in oil or other scale-worthy durable media, watercolor also found favor with botanists, illustrators, and portraitists, and was applied to varied and countless surfaces. The nature of the media itself represents a delicate and dictatorial transparency, fluidity, and a potential for expressive spontaneity. This not only makes it an ideal vehicle for contemporary art, but also one of training, intensity, philosophy, and play for any who practice it. Where an artist can easily dominate other painting media, forcing a will through viscous layers into a work of art like taming a wild horse, with watercolor there is dialog, compromise, and undeniable forthrightness. In this way the artist practicing watercolor works with a tiger in the room. For this exhibit 44 artists from 24 states, Australia, and Canada submitted 142 works for consideration. Thirteen works by the following 9 artists from 5 states, and Canada were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Nat Borges Corey Drieth Pauline Goldsmith Soyoung Jung Emily Kaelin J. Li Harriet Livathinos Yeachin Tsai Scott Waters
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Nat Borges
Corey Drieth
Emily Kaelin
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parallel space + central gallery
FRESH PAINT 2017
FRESH PAINT joins Drawn as a recurring gallery exhibition designed to complement our annual INDA and INPA (drawing and painting) publications. Every two years it launches our exhibition season by presenting a competitive group exhibition focused exclusively on painting. For this exhibit 116 artists from 22 states, Canada, China, England, France, Indonesia, and Ireland submitted 362 works. Eighteen works by the following 17 artists from 15 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Beverly Barber Pirjo Berg Evan Boggess Patti Brady Gerry Chapleski Craig Cully Margaret Davis Mike Demi Peter Green Joseph Holsapple Marcus Michels Jenniffer Omaitz Edmond Praybe Adam Reed Benjamin Shamback Sheldon Tapley Xi Zhang
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Xi Zhang
Jennifer Omaitz
Edmond Praybe
Pirjo Berg
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north gallery
BLIND SPOT
Benjamin Lowery's seven paintings conclude a five-gallery suite of exhibits focusing on painting. Counterbalancing the concurrent exhibit in our other street-facing gallery, that of works by Dustin London, Lowery's paintings are also quite large, colorful, and engaging across a wide radius. Fittingly, the energy of this show matches that of its counterpart, but with a more direct and light-hearted narrative, softening expectations, and inviting consideration on what is perhaps an unfamiliar level. Of his work the artist states: "A swimmer is momentarily blinded while drying his face and unwittingly stumbles over sunbathers. A man with an inner tube tries to insert himself into a crowded group of strangers in a swimming pool. These humorous subjects are a foil for the formal explorations of the work. As each piece develops, they become pictorial inventions that resist, complicate or disrupt the narratives. In particular, I am looking for a formal poise careening toward imminent disaster. This is amplified by various motifs in the paintings that play graphic clarity against spatial ambiguity, formal precision against awkward form. A recurring theme is the tension between the seen and the unseen, both from the point of view of the viewer and the subject. All of these devices are employed to activate the paintings in a surprising way that is interdependent with their original narrative impetus.” Born in Waukesha, WI, Benjamin Lowery received an MFA from Indiana University and a BA from the University of Dallas. He has also studied at the Mount Gretna School of Art and the Jerusalem Studio School. His work has been exhibited nationally in New York City, Pennsylvania, Indianapolis and Dallas. Lowery lives and works in Richmond, Indiana and is a visiting professor at Earlham College.
This exhibition is one of 8 selected from among 139 solo proposals submitted for consideration for Manifest’s 14th season.
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| November 10 - December 8 | Preview Reception: Thursday, November 9, 6-9pm |
main gallery
ART FROM ART
Like any other form of culture including language, art evolves organically. This means artists are reacting to their context—socially, historically, creatively. Often artists learn by copying existing works, usually 'master works' from history, in museums or from photos. Sometimes these are even copies of copies—for example, a drawn copy of a drawing Rubens made of the Belevedere Torso in 1601. (The Belvedere Torso itself was once believed to be a 1st-century BC original, but is now believed to be a copy from the 1st century BC or AD of an older statue, which probably dated to the early 2nd century BC). This example alone reveals the depth of historical influence—the purposeful right alongside the unconscious. However, beyond the practice of imitating to learn, there is the overt borrowing of forms, techniques, styles, or subjects—even whole representations of an existing work—in order to recontextualize it and therefore give it an entirely new meaning while retaining a connection to the original source's context and meaning. Duchamp's "L.H.O.O.Q." serves as a prime example. ART FROM ART sets out to showcase works that reference, borrow, recontextualize or otherwise utilize existing artworks, whether old or new, in an obvious way. The ways in which this may be realized are incredibly numerous, and we were eager, in calling for submissions, to see the various approaches artists feel fit this theme. For this exhibit 150 artists from 37 states and the countries of Canada, England, Iran, Slovakia, and Ukraine submitted 425 works for consideration. Fourteen works by the following 11 artists from 11 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Dennis Angel Kenneth Batista Michael Bergt Tyler Bohm Bruce Garrity Edward Kelley Larry Madrigal Nancy McCarthy Isaac McCaslin Scott Ramming Paul Sattler
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Tyler Bohm
Nancy McCarthy
Edward Kelley
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drawing room
H2O
For this exhibit 162 artists submitted 507 works from 37 states and Canada, England, France, Ireland, London, Oman, Switzerland, and Taiwan for consideration. Twelve works by the following 11 artists from 8 states, and New Zealand were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Lynn Benson Cathy Carter Katherine Cox Jennifer Cronin Phil Hastings Ricki Klages Joseph Miller Lynda Nugent Robert Perez Alice Stern Margaret Whiting
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Jennifer Cronin
Margaret Whiting
Cathy Carter
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parallel space + central gallery
ARBOREAL
How do artists interpret the role or form of the tree? What meaning is derived from a creative response to this force of nature? How are the fates of trees, forests, and mankind intertwined, and how is this expressed through art? How do tree-based materials, and therefore trees themselves, influence the artwork that they are used to make? Manifest invited artists working in any media to share works that either directly or indirectly address the topic of trees or related aspects. The theme was open to wide interpretation, and works were expected to explore various avenues of thought around the tree, its dependents, or its wood. For this exhibit 238 artists from 44 states, Canada, the Czech Republic, Israel, Lebanon, and The Netherlands submitted 754 works. Eighteen works by the following 16 artists from 9 states and England were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Steven L. Anderson Sue Bryan Paul Baron Tim Freeman Pauline Goldsmith Ryan Horvath Ricki Klages Cindy Kopenhafer Marlene Lipinski Gregory Martin Paul Ridyard Meagan Shein John Shelton Greg Thatcher Vesselina Traptcheva Margaret Whiting
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Ryan Horvath
Meagan Shein
Paul Ridyard
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north gallery
ABSTRACT NATURE
Blake Conroy's six large laser-cut paper works offer both an abstracted view of natural forms, and an intense experience of an increasingly seen art-making process enabled by technology. Conroy's stated concern about the natural environment is underscored by the seriousness of his commitment to the layered cut-paper forms—allowing, like abstract expressionism, the viewer to extract as much meaning as they wish from the inherent formal impact of the works. Of his work the artist states: "The core of my work is large pieces that address my concerns about the environment. I want to express this concern in an elegant way to reach as large an audience as possible. Blake Conroy is from Aberdeen, Maryland. He holds a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1981. Conroy is a recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award. Solo Shows include Hardesty Arts Center in Tulsa OK, Abstract Nature, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg PA, and Garden Abstractions, Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely, MD. Selected group shows include: Drawn, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati OH, Brand 45, Works on Paper, 45th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Brand Library and Arts Center, Glendale California, Seventh Annual Laumeister Fine Art Competition, The Bennington Center For the Arts, Bennington, VT, St. Tammany Art Association's 50th Juried Artists Exhibition, the Summer Show, Art House, Covington, LA, among others. Conroy is the Foundry Foreman for New Arts Foundry. He has worked on projects large and small from Texas to Boston including: the renovation of the Freedom Statue atop the US Capitol, Orangutans for the National Zoo in Washington, D. C., the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington DC, and the statue of Tamanend, a Native American in Philadelphia.
This exhibition is one of 8 selected from among 139 solo proposals submitted for consideration for Manifest’s 14th season.
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| December 15, 2017 - January 12, 2018 | Preview Reception: Thursday, December 14, 6-9pm |
main gallery + north gallery
8th Annual TAPPED
The relationship between art students and their professors can be a powerful one. Even when this bond is left unstated, we carry our professors' voices forward in time as we mature as artists and people. We eventually realize that the instruction given by our teachers during our relatively brief careers as students continues to expand within us. We realize that the learning they inspired is a chain-reaction process that develops across our lifetime. All of us who have been students carry forward our professors' legacy in one form or another. And those who are, or have been teachers, bear witness to the potency of studenthood. Out of respect for this student-teacher bond, and in honor of professors working hard to help their students tap into a higher mind relative to art and life, we offer TAPPED, an annual exhibit that presents paired works by artists and their current or former teachers. For this exhibit 62 artists from 20 states and 2 countries submitted 204 works for consideration. Twenty-six works by the following 26 artists from 14 states (Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin) were selected for presentation in the gallery and Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. The artists are listed in pairings to illustrate their teacher/student relationship. Works on view will include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and several photographs. The exhibition layout is planned so that each pair of artists' works will be shown side-by-side or in close proximity. Visitors will be able to enjoy the variety of types of works while also considering the nature of influence between professor and student.
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ILLINOIS
For our fifth year of exhibits showcasing works from other regions we have decided to feature states which are adjacent to our three-state 'home' region. Illinois and Pennsylvania each offer large populations and art-rich metropolitan cultures, as well as broad rural areas, which provides a starting point for conversation about the resulting simultaneous exhibitions. They are home to major international art centers and educational institutions which are involved in the global art scene. (Previously Texas and Minnesota, Michigan and Florida, and New York and California showcases provided strong and visible contrasts in our gallery.) Manifest's several-member blind jury process reviewed 160 works by 49 artists in Illinois and Pennsylvania for this two-exhibit parallel regional survey. Eight works by the following 4 artists from Illinois were selected for exhibition and will also be featured in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication (MEA) at the close of the season. Presenting works by: Barbara Kendrick Mason Pott Yvette Kaiser Smith Mary Wagner
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Yvette Kaiser Smith
Mason Pott
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parallel space
PENNSYLVANIA
For our fifth year of exhibits showcasing works from other regions we have decided to feature states which are adjacent to our three-state 'home' region. Illinois and Pennsylvania each offer large populations and art-rich metropolitan cultures, as well as broad rural areas, which provides a starting point for conversation about the resulting simultaneous exhibitions. They are home to major international art centers and educational institutions which are involved in the global art scene. (Previously Texas and Minnesota, Michigan and Florida, and New York and California showcases provided strong and visible contrasts in our gallery.) Manifest's several-member blind jury process reviewed 160 works by 49 artists in Illinois and Pennsylvania for this two-exhibit parallel regional survey. Eight works by the following 5 artists from Pennsylvania were selected for exhibition and will also be featured in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication (MEA) at the close of the season. Presenting works by: Jim Bright Maurice Butler Cheryl Hochberg Brooke Jana Mary Murphy
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Maurice Butler
Mary Murphy
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central gallery
ONE 8
La Guerre About the work the artist states: The work entitled La Guerre could most easily be summarized as a battle for knowledge about life and death between a young child and his mortal doppelganger. However, by employing misdirection and/or contradiction I have attempted to blur the contentious boundaries between the beautiful and the ugly, the innocent and the sinful, and the living and the dying. I have always enjoyed the complex range of emotions that result when one symbol seamlessly veils another and we find ourselves navigating multiple scripts simultaneously; in which beauty, love, pain, loss, life, and death seem entwined and inseparable. In the end, the struggle to navigate these various contradictions, and our ability to persevere in spite of them, is what interests me the most. Michael Reedy received his MFA in painting from Northern Illinois University in 2000 and his BA from North Central College in 1996. His work has been included in over 150 national and international exhibitions and can be viewed in numerous private and institutional collections including Clatsop Community College, Minot State University, Shippensburg University, and the Hoffman Trust National Collection in association with the San Diego Art Institute. Notable recent creative activities include a two-person exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco, and solo exhibitions at The International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago, the Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center in Cincinnati, Arch Enemy Arts in Philadelphia, and BeinArt Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. In addition, several of Michael’s works were included in the books Dark Inspirations II by Victionary Press and Anatomy Rocks by Cernunnos Press. ABOUT THE $5000 MANIFEST PRIZE We respect the creative principle of reduction (the blind jury process) as it is employed to achieve an essential conclusive statement for each exhibit we produce. This is what has led to the high caliber of each Manifest exhibit, and to the gallery's notable following. We believe competition does inspire excellence. Therefore we determined seven years ago to launch the Manifest Prize in order to push the process to the ultimate limit—from among many to select just ONE work. Manifest's jury process for the 8th Annual Manifest Prize included multiple levels of jury review of 1060 works by 335 artists from 44 states and 15 countries by a total of 18 different volunteer jurors from across the U.S. Each level resulted in fewer works passing on to the next, until a winner was reached. The size and physical nature of the works considered was not a factor in the jury scoring and selection. It should be noted that the finalist and semi-finalists, 11 works, represent the top scoring 1% of the jury pool. The winner represents the top one-tenth of 1% of the jury pool. The winning work will be presented in the Central Gallery from December 14 through January 12, 2018. It will be accompanied by several juror statements and the artist's statement. The Runners-up: Ten semi-finalist works (runners up to the winner) will also be featured in the season-documenting Manifest Exhibition Annual publication (MEAs14). These are works by Gordon Belray (Toronto, Canada), Lisa Bryson (Jamul, California), Kelly Cave (Maryville, Missouri), Jason Ferguson (Grass Lake, Michigan), John Nicholas Hutchings (Frederick, Maryland), Robert McCann (East Lansing, Michigan), Clarissa Pezone (Edinboro, Pennsylvania), Michael Reedy (Ann Arbor, Michigan), and Dustin Steuck (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
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"La Guerre"
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| January 26 - February 23 | Preview Reception: Thursday, January 25, 6-9pm |
main gallery + drawing room + parallel space
IMPRINT
Like photography, printmaking is a genre of art making that is underscored by its processes. Some artists are steadfast traditionalists, anchoring themselves in age-old technical methods. Others push the boundaries of the discipline, exploring just what constitutes ‘printmaking’. For this exhibit Manifest takes a fresh look at the media last featured in season 10. IMPRINT called to artists around the world to submit works of printmaking, and shares a range of methods and results currently being achieved within the bounds of the discipline. Manifest's blind jury process reviewed 436 works by 144 artists in 35 states and 14 countries. Fifty-four works by the following 38 artists from 18 states and 5 countries, including Australia, England, Finland, Italy, and the United States, were selected for exhibition and will also be featured in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication (MEA) at the close of the season. Presenting works by: Andrew Au Kenneth Batista Cahaba River Watershed Project* Jacob Crook Christine Di Staola Doug Eberhardt Rick Finn Craig Fisher Arron Foster Carl Gombert Beth Grabowski Bea Haines Marco Hernandez Nicholas Hill Yuji Hiratsuka Sarah Hulsey Brian Johnson William Kitchens Elizabeth Klimek Janne Laine Andrew Laverty Beauvais Lyons Maria Mangano Kathy McGhee Landon Perkins Miriana Pino Jenn Rodriguez Ramiro Rodriguez Blake Sanders Rachel Singel Mark Sisson Vanessa Sorensen Nathan Weiss Ian Welch Art Werger Michael Whitehead Cleo Wilkinson Ken Wood
* a collaboration between Scott Stephens, Elisabeth Pellathy
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Arron Foster
Nathan Weiss
Jenn Rodriguez
Ken Wood
Doug Eberhardt
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central gallery
CHARACTERIZED
Manifest's blind jury process reviewed 310 works by 105 artists in 33 states and 3 countries. Thirteen works by the following 9 artists from 7 states and Australia were selected for exhibition and will also be featured in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication (MEA) at the close of the season.
Jaime Aelavanthara David Michael Beck Erik Durant David Hannon David Hicks Dominic Lippillo William Platz Steven Subotnick Nathan Vieland
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Erik Durant
William Platz
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north gallery
IMAGINARIUM
Presenting works by: TyRuben Ellingson William Haney Stuart Holland Katie Hudnall Julia Romano Robert Sholties Katie Stacy
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Stuart Holland
Katie Hudnall
TyRuben Ellingson
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| March 9 - April 6 | Preview Reception: Thursday, March 8, 6-9pm |
main gallery + drawing room
OHIO, KENTUCKY, INDIANA
In 14 seasons Manifest's projects have included works by artists in 50 states and 40 countries. Beginning in its tenth season, Manifest launched an ongoing series of exhibits focusing on works by artists in our own three-state region. These Regional Showcases were offered to complement the ordinarily very wide geographical makeup of most Manifest exhibits with a closer look at what's being done here in our own backyard, as well as provide a platform from which we can examine the trends, qualities, and idiosyncrasies of contemporary art within specific geographical areas and compare them to our own. This exhibit had no specific requirement for type, media, or style of work to be submitted. This was an open call. Submissions ranged widely from traditional to very conceptual, abstract, and experimental work. Jury selections were made based on the overall quality of the works submitted. Manifest's blind jury process reviewed 463 works by 136 artists from Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. Twenty-six works by the following 17 artists from our three-state region (6 from Indiana, 7 from Ohio, and 4 from Kentucky) were selected for exhibition and will also be featured in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication (MEA) at the close of the season. Presenting works by: Chad Balster Brandon Briggs Preston Buchtel Frederick Fochtman Ron Isaacs Todd Kunkler Aaron Lubrick Eric Lubrick Patrizio M. Martinelli Catherine Mulligan Dora Natella Steve Nyktas Sara Pearce Robert Pulley Jack St. John Susan Tennant Hayward Wilkirson
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Hayward Wilkirson
Jack St. John
Ron Isaacs
Sara Pearce
Aaron Lubrick
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parallel space
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Of his work the artist states: "The many nuances associated with the dollar bill serve as an unrelenting source of inspiration for me as I fold the monetary engravings obsessively to reveal messages. These manipulated promissory notes take on new meanings as the messages are realized in the ready-made light of the U.S. currency. At the very core of this fiscal narrative is the tug-of-war between politics and the pursuit of happiness. This photo series offers a moment of reflection to further consider the good, bad, and the ugly potential of a monetary centric world." Dan Tague has an MFA in Studio Arts from The University of New Orleans, and is a multi-media artist whose work is exhibited both nationally and internationally. His work is in prominent collections including the New Orleans Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Ogden Museum of Art, Speed Art Museum, J House, Frederick Weisman Collection, and Photo House Brussels. Tague is well known for his photographic series of political commentary as told through folded paper currency. He addresses the issues of our day by rendering visual equivalents in this most influential medium. Installations, photography and artistic activism are his means of confronting and responding to the concerns of today's world. Dan Tague lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana.
This exhibition is one of 8 selected from among 139 solo proposals submitted for consideration for Manifest’s 14th season.
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central gallery
NECESSARY NOTES
Of her work the artist states: "These photos are of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico in the context of science, religion and history, that deliver limited facts and uncertain truths, at the nexus of a conversation about the transience of knowledge and constancy of change. The photographs are made partially underwater, at the crux of two worlds. They are made with the camera suspended at the border between the air and water, peering into the dark water beneath at the same time as the sky and land above. The water is mostly impenetrable, a language I do not speak. They are two different environments, one in which air is inhaled and one in which water is the medium. In these images, I am more interested in what escapes us, what is obscured—the gaps and blank parts of our understanding. The border between the land and the water is tenuous but definite, and its surface reflects us as in the myth of Narcissus but reveals little below. I am seeking the stories in the water, unknowable stories of life and struggle, stories that are inextricably intertwined with ours and laden with implications for our future.” Robin Germany (BA, Tulane, Philosophy. MFA, University of North Texas) was born in Houston, Texas and grew up further south in the small town of Friendswood, Texas. She is a professor of photography in the School of Art at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Through the lens of philosophy, Germany makes photographs that inquire into the nature of being human and the humanness of nature. Her most recent artworks are an exploration of the waters in Texas as a border between the human and natural worlds. Germany's work has been exhibited in the Fort Wayne Art Museum; the Center for Photography at Woodstock, at the New York Hall of Science; in Arezzo Italy at the Fotografia Festival; the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christie, Texas, and in solo and group exhibitions around the country. She has received a regional NEA grant, two Polaroid artist's awards, numerous Texas Tech University awards. Her photographs are included in the collections of the Center for Photography Woodstock, Texas Tech Museum of Art, The Boise Art Museum, and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona. This exhibition is one of 8 selected from among 139 solo proposals submitted for consideration for Manifest’s 14th season.
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north gallery
ASPIRE
as·pi·ra·tion For this exhibit Manifest asked artists to submit works of visual art which represent or suggest the notion of hopes, ambitions, goals, or dreams. Abstract, poetic expressions of the theme were welcome alongside those of technical or literal representations. Presenting works by: Adrian Hatfield John Nicholas Hutchings Ron Monsma Rahshia Sawyer Sayaka Suzuki Jared Weiss
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Ron Monsma
John Nicholas Hutchings
Rahshia Sawyer
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| April 20 - May 18 | Preview Reception: Thursday, April 19, 6-9pm |
main gallery + drawing room + parallel space
DRAWN
Manifest was founded in-part to stand for the importance of drawing as a process, skill, and discipline, and as a continuing viable product of the creative fine art and design fields. Since its inception our nonprofit organization has continued to incorporate drawing-based programming, including education (Drawing Center), publications (INDA), and gallery exhibits into the broader spectrum of its projects. The artists who formed Manifest in 2004 knew that despite their diverging career paths (architecture, art history, painting, industrial design, photography) they were brought together by their connection to drawing and their mutually intense but multi-faceted pursuit of this fundamental discipline. Four years ago, in honor of the original spirit of the founding ideals of Manifest, the gallery launched DRAWN as a new annual exhibition. DRAWN seeks to survey and present the broad scope of drawing being made today. This gallery exhibit is completely separate from but nevertheless complements, and sometimes shares work in common with, the annual INDA publication project. DRAWN called for artists to submit works of drawing in any media relevant to the practice (including non-traditional approaches), any style, and any genre (fine art, illustration, design, conceptual, realism, etc.). For this exhibit 217 artists from 38 states, the District of Columbia, and 12 countries submitted 632 works for consideration. Forty-four works by the following 33 artists from 18 states and the countries of Australia, Canada, England, and France were selected by a panel of volunteer jurors for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.
Presenting works by: Kim Anderson Joseph Bennett Katlyn Brumfield Deborah Bryan Sue Bryan Larine Chung Michael DeLuca Roger Derrick Olivier Devignaud Michael Diaz Jillian Dickson Maria DiMauro Abel Dolby Matthew Durante Marie Frances Kevin Gardner Andrea Garland Mark Hanavan and Paul Loehle Hiroshi Hayakawa Damien James Ron Janowich Sarah Jantzi Joe Morzuch Sasha Opeiko Paul Ridyard Francis Sills John Swihart and Denny Doran Alice Valenti Duat Vu Derek Wilkinson Chelsea Younkman
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Olivier Devignaud
Jillian Dickson
Damien James
Katlyn Brumfield
Sasha Opeiko
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central gallery + north gallery
MACROCOSM ARTIST'S TALK: Friday, May 18, 6pm
Of her work the artist states: "My practice is centered around the creation of joy; spreading light and empowerment by demonstrating acts of beauty and love. Installations are physical manifestations of my energy, a culmination of hours spent to create a new environment. Works are a playground for exploration, asking viewers to engage through imagination and touch. Using playful color, the works give space for viewers to be pushed back into their own childlike sensibilities. At the beginning of each work I develop a process or action that is placed onto a material that manipulates it into something new. This new invented technique is implemented and repeated to create a massive pattern. By masking medium through process, in conjunction with size, color and light, each piece is filled with endless references; allowing the work to remain approachable and relatable regardless of the viewer/participant's age and background. Works consist of multiple and individual figures, bodies and pieces that come together to create a massive work, highlighting the importance of individuality and freedom, and the power of community.” Harper holds an undergraduate degree in Art & Technology from The Ohio State University (2009). She was the recipient of The Bunton Waller Fellowship from Penn State University, where she received her MFA in 2013. She was the recipient of an ArtPrize Artist Seed Grant and The ArtFile Emerging Artist Grant, Ringholz Foundation Award, as well as an Ohio Arts Council Professional Award. She has presented solo exhibitions at Otterbein University, University of Kentucky, Front/Space Gallery & Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, and ROY G BIV in Columbus, Ohio. Harper has been an Artist in Residence at Kutztown University, Teton Art Lab, Bunker Projects, Second Sight Studio, and ARC Artist Residency Chattanooga. She was awarded a scholarship through The National Endowment of the Arts to attend Womens Studio Workshop in 2016. Most recently, she was a resident at Sculpture Space in Utica, New York and will hold another residency in July 2018 at ArtSpace in Raleigh, North Carolina. This exhibition is one of 8 selected from among 139 solo proposals submitted for consideration for Manifest’s 14th season. Learn more about Dana Lynn Harper's works at www.danalynnharper.com
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| June 1 - June 29 | Preview Reception: Thursday, May 31, 6-9pm |
main gallery
RITES OF PASSAGE
Initiated in 2005, The Rites of Passage exhibits were developed to support student excellence by offering a public venue for the display of advanced creative research; to promote young artists as they transition into their professional careers; and to bring the positive creative energies national institutions together in one place. With this fourteenth annual installment of the Rites series, Manifest offers a $500 best of show prize to reward excellence at this early career level. The Rites call for submissions was open to students graduating or expecting to graduate in 2017, 2018, or 2019 (undergraduate juniors, seniors, and those who graduated last year). For this exhibit 79 artists representing 55 academic institutions in 29 states across the U.S. submitted 229 works for consideration. Thirteen works by the following 10 artists representing 9 different academic institutions in 9 states are featured in the 14th annual Rites of Passage exhibit. Artists are listed with their academic status as of the dates of their entry into this competition. The best of show award recipient will be designated during the June 1st opening reception. Why is this important? The exhibit catalogs for Rites, and now the Manifest Exhibition Annual, have over time become a compelling document framing a view into the state of art in academia, and quite possibly the launching place for future notable artists of the world. Featuring works by: Maggie Flanagan Sean Fox Lorena Ganser Yurie Hayashi Amelia McCann Kristina McComb Carly Melton Bradley Milligan Sapun Ngoensritong Lindsey Orrin
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Sapun Ngoensritong
Yurie Hayashi
Sean Fox
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drawing room + parallel space
MAGNITUDE SEVEN An exhibit of works from around the world, each no larger than about 7" in size. Back in 2005 we launched the Magnitude Seven project with the idea that small works would be easier and more practical for artists to send to Manifest from anywhere in the world. This proved true, and right off it was this exhibit that lead to Manifest earning the tag line 'the neighborhood gallery for the world.' Inevitably MAG 7 is a wild and varied mix of works, including an extreme range of media, styles, and artist intents. The exhibit always gains unity from the common scale, so even disparate works seem to engage in playful and tolerant conversation across the gallery or side by side. We have found that having a couple galleries full of hand-sized works is a joyful experience of small things well made, a menagerie of creativity, and a poignant reminder that bigger is not always better. We are happy to offer this fourteenth annual exhibit of works no larger than seven inches in any dimension. For this year's project 188 artists from 40 states and 14 countries submitted 586 works for consideration by Manifest's intensely competitive jury process. Thirty-nine works by the following 23 artists from 15 states and the countries of Australia and Canada were selected for presentation in the gallery and the season-documenting Manifest Exhibition Annual.
Featuring works by: Art Ballelli Stephen Barnwell Douglas Barrett Pirjo Berg Nat Borges Susan Bryant Lisa Bryson Lyle Colombo Peter Davidson Roger Derrick Michel Gautier Brandice Guerra Perry Johnson Caitlin Margaret Kelly Leonardo Cuervo Michael McCaffrey Steve Paddack Victoria Ridgway Nicholas Sheldon Julio Suarez Judy Takács Elijah Van Benschoten Cleo Wilkinson
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Victoria Ridgway
Perry Johnson
Nat Borges
Peter Davidson
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central gallery + north gallery
Charlie Goering: Recent Works
The year-long Manifest Artist Residency was launched in 2012 with the goal to provide artists with a combination of free studio space, supportive resources such as teaching opportunities and free access to life drawing and other programs at the Manifest Drawing Center, access to the powerful creative culture that permeates all Manifest programs, and routine engagement with the visiting public during each of our nine exhibit receptions and nine preview events each season. To cement their year of development each artist receives another benefit of the program—a MAR Showcase solo exhibition. This two-room solo exhibit features works made by our 2017/18 Artist in Residence, Charlie Goering. This marks the culmination of Charlie's residency at Manifest which concludes in June, and serves as a celebration of his achievements, learning, and adoption into the broad Manifest 'family'. "This past year of work is a result of much rumination. Each large work serves as a singular thought, concept or idea. Facilitated by titles, each piece is a catalyst for conversation, touching the uncomfortable parts of us is where the works sit. The works on paper give the viewer a look into the many facets of my process, enriching the larger. A common connection can be seen between the quiet statements in communion with the bold." Charlie Goering was born in 1993 in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, and lives and works in Cincinnati. He received his Bachelors of Fine Art degree from the Laguna College of Art and Design. Collections include the Art Academy of Cincinnati; the city of Colton, California; and The Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna Beach, California. He would like to thank the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation for its financial support.
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| July 13 - August 10 | Preview Reception: Thursday, July 12, 7-9pm |
main gallery + drawing room
HACKED
What hackers and painters have in common is that they're both makers. Along with composers, architects, and writers, what hackers and painters are trying to do is make good things. — Paul Graham
While today hacking is often associated with new technology, it is important not to assume a purely technological basis for the theme. Works of all kinds, from painting and drawing, to photography, collage, printmaking, sculpture, various combinations of media and processes, as well as more straight forward work that nevertheless deals with the theme as a matter of subject or content were all completely valid possibilities, and our resulting exhibition reveals this in the breadth of work presented. For this exhibit 65 artists from 26 states, Canada, Denmark, England, and Taiwan submitted 175 works for consideration. Twenty-three works by the following 16 artists from 10 states, Canada and Denmark were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Featuring works by: Dylan Bannister Stephen Barnwell Mike Callaghan Marilyn Carren Rose DeSloover Austin Eddy Sebastian Gatz Aaron Higgins Craig Hill Ry McCullough Sandra McHenry Ken Nurenberg Jennifer Purdum Emil Robinson Hayward Wilkirson Roscoe Wilson
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Stephen Barnwell
Craig Hill
Roscoe Wilson
Dylan Bannister
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parallel space + central gallery + north gallery
12th Annual Building
upon the philosophy of the Rites
of Passage exhibits for undergrads, each year Manifest
offers a similar opportunity to current and recent graduate students
for exhibiting at Manifest. As do our annual Rites of Passage and TAPPED exhibits, Master Pieces reflects our organization's commitment to surveying, documenting, and presenting the state of arts in academia on an ongoing basis. We believe this is important to artists, the public, students, and teachers. For this 12th competition for the project 76 artists representing 56 different academic graduate programs in 33 states, Washington D.C., Canada, and Ireland submitted 198 works for consideration by Manifest's rigorous jury process. Twenty-four works by the following 18 artists from 13 states representing 15 different academic programs were selected for presentation in the gallery and MEA publication for season 14.
Featuring works by: Matthew Durante Sherry Erskine Gail Freed Andrea Garland Katharine Glasheen Tyler Griese Jess Holz ILun Huang Sarah Kinard Ayako Kurimoto Ambrin Ling David Marchese Michael Oliver Molly Phalan Cassaundra Sanderson Amelia Vercauteren Jesse Warne Erin Wheary
* Artists' graduate status listed as of date of submission
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Jess Holz
Amelia Vercauteren
Jesse Warne
Molly Phalan
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| August 17 - September 14 (SEASON 14 FINALÉ) | Preview Reception: Thursday, August 16, 7-9pm |
main gallery
TEXTUALITY
Not long after humanity began drawing, drawings evolved into writing. Pictures became symbols, abstraction blossomed, and language became visual. Two branches, sharing one root, carried forward people's ideas, feelings, and plans. The visual and the verbal arts shared the role of encapsulating civilization's data. And they continue to do so today, in so many wondrous and varied ways. TEXTUALITY is an exhibit that inquires into the overlap of these two branches, sharing examples of where the verbal is made visual, where language returns into image. For this exhibit 193 artists from 37 states and 9 countries including Austria, Canada, China, England, Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, and Turkey, submitted 587 works for consideration. Fifteen works by the following 11 artists from 6 states, Canada, and China were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura Craig Briar Ian Cross Christian Faur Damien James Megan Mattax Armin Mühsam Tongji Qian Billy Renkl Cheryl Wassenaar Zac Weinberg
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Zac Weinberg
Cheryl Wassenaar
Craig Briar
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drawing room + parallel space
10th Annual NUDE
NUDE is one such project. The human body is a popular subject for many reasons, the most obvious being that it is us. Throughout history the representation of the human form has been charged with tremendous energy, both positive and negative. Whether it be a religious edict that one should not depict the human form—a taboo—or the glorious opposite, a revelation of mastery over form in the crafting of sensuous and life-like physical human beauty, the art of the body has nevertheless moved us through time. Through all the permutations art has experienced across history, work of the body persists. We use the human nude to master skill, understand ourselves, and push social and psychological buttons for the sake of expression (sensual, delicate, shocking, etc.). We intend for Manifest's ongoing annual NUDE project to explore how our collective body is used today in art to achieve these goals and more. This year we were happy to renew our invitation to artists to submit works in any media, of any style or genre (abstract, conceptual, realistic, etc.), and of any size and media, for consideration in Manifest's tenth annual NUDE, an international competitive exhibit exploring the uncovered human form in current art.
Presenting works by: Gordon Belray Jim Cantrell Donovan Entrekin McGarren Flack Ghislaine Fremaux Jim Gabbard Rheana Gardner Susanna Gaunt Tina Gutierrez Anton Hoeger Catherine Lucas Louis Marinaro Michael Meehan Mark Miltz Nadine Robbins Joon Song
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Gordon Belray
Louis Marinaro
Tina Gutierrez
Nadine Robbins
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central gallery
PEMBROKE Manifest is proud to close out its 14th season of solo exhibitions with a show of paintings by David Linneweh serving as one part of a two-part visual dessert. David's small paintings actively populate our Central Gallery with the vibrancy of a happy sunlit suburban neighborhood. Tiptoeing between formal meditation on subject and media, and a silent reverie about the shape of life in the burbs, the paintings offer the viewer various options for engagement. The viewer, it seems, is their populace. Of his work the artist states: "When walking through my neighborhood my mind is flooded with observations of light as it falls over homes and manicured lawns. Facades glisten with an intensity and variety of color that illicit a dreamlike state that feels nostalgic and prophetic in the same time. These suburban streets transport me in time; I close my eyes and memories of backyard barbeques, bike rides, and birthday parties in the garage fill my head. As the setting sun bathes rooftops in a warm glow I reflect on the idea of the American Dream and wonder if its tenets are based in illusion or reality." David Linneweh lives in the greater Chicago Metropolitan area where he works and is the creator of the popular artist-focused Studio Break Podcast. He received his MFA in painting from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in (2007;) and his BFA from Illinois State University in (2002). Solo exhibitions include: The Burnell R. Roberts Triangle Gallery, Sinclair College, Dayton, OH; The Perkinson Art Gallery, Decatur, IL; Blanden Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA; Jan Brandt Gallery, Bloomington, IL; The Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL; and Centraltrak Artist Residency, Dallas, TX. Group Exhibitions: DeCaprio Art Gallery, Palos Hills, IL; St Peter Art Center, St Peter, MN; Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery, Davie, FL; What it is Gallery, Oak Park, IL; McNamee Gallery, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO; The Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL; Brooklyn Artists Gym, Brooklyn, NY; and Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH. He has held residencies at Art342, Centraltrak, Osage Arts Community, The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center (Full Fellowship), and Jentel. His work has been published in New American Paintings four times in (2011, 2007, 2005, and 2003) and his work has been collected by Richard Holland, Tom Burtonwood, Brian Redban and Steven T. Zevitas.
This exhibition is one of 8 selected from among 139 solo proposals submitted for consideration for Manifest’s 14th season.
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north gallery
NEW NATURALISMS
Jennifer Meanley's exhibition of primarily large collages and paintings officially concludes Manifest's 14th exhibition season solo show lineup. Jennifer is one of only a handful of artists who have presented multiple solo exhibits at Manifest over the past 14 years. We last featured a full gallery of her work in 2009. Jennifer's paintings and collages evoke the sense of kinship with early 20th century Modern masters' works while bringing the sensibilities of a 21st century woman to bear on the undertones of meaning they carry forward. While complementing the paintings of David Linneweh in the Central Gallery, they boldly expand their formal and narrative qualities with a cacophony of fragmentation, as if the people missing from the former exhibit's neighborhood are all here, and we are now inside the house with them. Of her work the artist states: "My paintings are personal instances of built, privileged-context, which also operate unconditionally to invite anyone, at any moment, to step into their centers. Sometimes I feel a sense of loss when my paintings enter into the world. I can only describe this guttural reaction as one close to Susan Sontag’s stance in her essay ‘Against Interpretation’. I feel interpretation is traumatic as much as it may be helplessly a part of genuine human interaction. The net result of all that I do is fueled by the need to prompt intimacy despite the threat of trauma or scrutiny. This is represented clearly in the relationships I depict. Intimacy, like context, is inclusive as it is harrowing. Its overall dimension may be obtuse, or even one of distance: of wrestling with another in the dark. But likewise, its attitude is always that of ruthless closeness. ” Jennifer Helen Meanley was born in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire in 1978. She attended Mount Holyoke College, graduating in 2001 with a degree in English Literature. She returned to the University of New Hampshire in 2002, where she completed her studio work in painting. She attended Indiana University, graduating with her Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting in 2006. In 2008, she accepted an Assistant Professorship in Drawing and Painting at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where she has since become an Associate Professor, teaching all levels of undergraduate and graduate studio work in painting and drawing.
This exhibition is one of 8 selected from among 139 solo proposals submitted for consideration for Manifest’s 14th season.
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