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SEASON 15
EXHIBITS IN THE GALLERY
September 2018 - August 2019
| July 12 - August 9 | Preview Reception: Thursday, July 11, 7-9pm |
main gallery + drawing room
13th Annual
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 13th competition for the project 83 artists representing 61 different academic graduate programs in 24 states, Washington D.C., and Canada submitted 228 works for consideration by Manifest's rigorous jury process. Eighteen works by the following 12 artists from 6 states and Canada representing 10 different academic programs were selected for presentation in the gallery and MEA publication for season 15.
Featuring works by: Adrienne Dagg Christine Di Staola Isadora Frost Sam Horowitz Joann Quinones Joseph Santarpia Leah Schretenthaler Bill Sieber Tracy Smoll Morgan Stephenson Thomas Ward Denise Wellbrock
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Joann Quinones
Joseph Santarpia
Adrienne Dagg
Morgan Stephenson
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parallel space
KINDRED For mostly obvious reasons a lot of attention is paid today to the differences between people. Is it possible, however, that this comes at great cost to the corresponding realization that we, people around the world, are far more alike than we are different? After all, everything that has ever transpired across the vast timeline of the Universe has led to us being here, together, now, at this leading edge of time where past meets future. We're all in this together. Perhaps the conversation would be enhanced by this acknowledgment, a recognition and celebration of our common ground. With this in mind, we invited visual artists and others to submit works that in some way represent, either through subject, form, or content, the concept or representation of Our Common Ground. All types of visual art in the broadest sense were welcome, including traditional and non-traditional approaches in any media, and any subject, realistic, non-objective, abstract, conceptual, etc. For this deliberately intimate exhibit 39 artists submitted 91 works from 18 states and Canada. Eleven works by the following 8 artists from 7 states and Canada were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and inclusion in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Gabriel Geng Lindsy Halleckson Stuart Holland Kate Houlne Marian Howard Amanda Jones Eileen MacArthur Alix Anne Shaw
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Amanda Jones
Alix Anne Shaw
Stuart Holland
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central gallery + north gallery
VOID Uncertainty is inevitable. It is the dark matter making up the large portion of our perception and experience of being. Yet, perhaps in order to simply maintain daily function, people often neglect to acknowledge that they don't know that they don't know, leaving uncertainty to metastasize. However, the unknown remains as much the realm of learners as it is of the uneducated—it defines both, and us all, in ways we may often find uncomfortable, or revealing of a depth of humanity, (or humility)—our least common denominator—often left dormant in living a modern life. With this in mind, we invited visual artists and designers to submit works that in some way represent, either through subject, form, or content, the concept, image, or feeling of the Unknown, Uncertainty, or 'Void'. For this exhibit 118 artists submitted 352 works from 38 states, Washington D.C., and Canada, England, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands, South Korea, and Taiwan.. Twenty-five works by the following 16 artists from 13 states and South Korea were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and inclusion in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.
Presenting works by: Dohgyoung Ahn Jason Biehner Per Bjesse Blake Brasher Lauren Cardenas Jeffery Carl Megan Dammann Avram Golden Jess Holz Seth Marosok Kenneth Nicholson Minna Philips Kyla Rafert A.E. Richardson Marco Sbrocca Kathleen Taylor
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Dohgyoung Ahn
Kathleen Taylor
Kyla Rafert
Avram Golden
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| August 16 - September 13 (SEASON 15 FINALÉ) | Preview Reception: Thursday, August 15, 7-9pm |
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PREVIOUS SEASON 15 EXHIBITS:
| September 28 - October 26, 2018 (SEASON 15 LAUNCH) | Preview Reception: Thursday, September 27, 7-9pm Public Opening: Friday, September 28, 6-9pm |
main gallery
ARCHIVE [photo] A FotoFocus Biennial 2018 Participating Venue Exhibition
Manifest is proud to launch its 15th season with this FotoFocus sponsored exhibition marking the gallery's fourth Biennial participation. Commonly defined as an accumulation of records or the place they are located archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of a particular span of time, and are kept (or presented) to show the function or history of a particular person, idea, or phenomena. This competitive exhibit called for photo and lens-based works which addressed this theme in some way based on this definition. Manifest’s own mission as a nonprofit entity is to function as an organizational archive of the artwork and artists’ histories it presents, publishes, and interacts with. This is one aspect of our 'Creative Research'. This exhibition brings together works of photographic and lens-based visual art which in one way or another, literally, formally, or figuratively, represents the concept of archive. It provides, through its concurrent presentation with four other exhibitions, a comparison between photo and non-photo approaches, and inspires consideration of the role of visual art in the process of housing, presenting, and preserving primary source information, and of the artist’s part in the process of interpreting or feeding into the archive. This exhibition, along with its companion exhibits, serves as the grand opening of Manifest's 15th season. For this exhibit 47 artists from 19 states and 3 countries submitted 160 works for consideration. Sixteen works by the following 11 artists from 7 states, and Canada were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Mike Callaghan Alyse Delaney Karen Hillier Jieun Beth Kim David Knox Kent Krugh Isabella La Rocca William Nourse Vesna Pavlovic Crystal Tursich Jenny Zeller
** BONUS! Learn more about this event including the list of participating artists, and RSVP for the opening and benefit auction here.
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Isabella La Rocca
Vesna Pavlovic
Karen Hillier
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drawing room
CHRONICLE
Of his work the artist states: "In Chronicle I combine 1/2 and 1 square pieces that I have cut from found photographs to examine the fragmentation of memories. When recalling our childhood, we may remember the shoes our father always wore or the way our mother held her hands: a part represents the whole. Photographs function in a similar manner. They do not show a whole person or an entire life, but instead capture a single moment. These keepsakes help determine some of the pieces of memory that stick with us. This series started as an exploration of the overwhelming scope of humanity and human history versus the insignificance of the individual. I wanted to find a visual representation of the 6,393 deaths that occur every hour in the world. I made the piece Chronicle: Passing (6,393 Per Hour) to try to comprehend this staggering figure. I moved on to other subjects that became more about the nature of memory. The themes of death and loss are still present throughout the series—most blatantly in the images of funerary flowers and disembodied shadows—as the source photos I use often have a built-in sense of history and sadness.” This exhibition is one of 7 selected from among 145 solo proposals submitted for consideration for Manifest’s 15th season. |
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parallel space
Stories We Tell Ourselves Dominic Lippillo's work questions the role of photography by making digitally constructed images that address notions of space versus place, memory, and experience. His work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Photographic Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; and the University of North Dakota. Publications where his work is featured include Don't Take Pictures, Mono Chroma, Exposure, Daily Serving, and The Eye of Photography. He is a recipient of a South Arts Fellowship (2018), a Mississippi Arts Commission Visual Artist Fellowship (2016), and the Mississippi State University Faculty Research Award for the College of Architecture, Art and Design (2013). He earned his MFA in Photography from Ohio University (2009) and a BFA in Photography from Youngstown State University (2005). Lippillo is an Associate Professor of Photography at Mississippi State University. Of his work the artist states: "Throughout the series, Stories We Tell Ourselves, memory, landscape, vernacular images, and narrative coalesce in a series of constructed photographs. Drawing influence from my experiences, American Scene painting, and the settings found in Raymond Carvers short stories where melancholy is balanced by curiosity, I seek out non-specific American landscapes to photograph and embellish by adding atmospheric conditions and appropriated figures that are alien to the landscapes. I begin the process for this series by photographing unoccupied suburban and rural areas to serve as backdrops of the everyday. I then search through my collection of anonymous vernacular images—photographs with unknown internal and external contexts—that have been purchased in secondhand shops to find figures to inhabit the minimalistic scenes. In doing so, a pensive human presence appears as an rückenfigur contemplating the landscape for the viewer to identify with, or as a visual device to direct the viewers gaze in or out of the frame. I approach finding the locations to photograph, and choose the figures to appropriate, with an eye for ambiguity and an irrational attraction and fascination to unassuming details, thus allowing my mind to wander outside of the confines of my eyes visual field. In these re-contextualized photographic realities the landscapes and figures share a symbiotic relationship, which allows them to transcend time, space, and experience due to their juxtaposition. By creating composite photographs I am inviting the viewer to impose new meanings and create their own re-tellings of the stories intertwining the anonymous figures and unspecified locations.” Listen in on a podcast interview with Dominic:
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central gallery
WHITEWASHED
Of his work the artist states: "The Whitewashed Series explores ways in which the absence of color can erase assumptions of a space and let your mind transform its past and present into something fresh and desirable. I was first drawn to these buildings while driving through a busy area full of color one overcast day. Right in the middle of all this was an abandoned whitewashed building trying its best to conceal itself. To me however it stood out like a blinding light. The atmosphere around these buildings plays a vital part in the series. Finding that magic moment of overcast adds a very personal connection as if the building is pulling me into its void.” This exhibition is one of 7 selected from among 145 solo proposals submitted for consideration for Manifest’s 15th season.
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north gallery
ARCHIVES
ARCHIVES invited artists to consider the meaning of the concepts 'primary source, preservation, collective data, accumulation, time, history, reflection, etc.' as they considered the potential for works fitting into or addressing the over arching theme of this show. We were eager to see just how artists make work in any non-photo-based media or genre (painting, drawing, collage, printmaking, sculpture, mixed media, and non-traditional art, etc.) which in some way addresses the theme of ARCHIVES. As Manifest has done before, this exhibit sets out to provide a counterpoint to the FotoFocus Biennial themed photo-specific exhibition in our Main Gallery, thereby providing the viewer a valuable opportunity to compare and contrast the role of media and creative processes in the resulting work which is, nevertheless, united by theme. For this exhibit 37 artists from 14 states, Washington D.C., and 3 countries submitted 79 works for consideration. Nine works by the following 5 artists from 4 states, and Ireland were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Amy Dean Ashly Griffith Curt Lund Seamus O’Rourke Jonathan Ware
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Amy Dean
Curt Lund
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| November 9 - December 7 | Preview Reception: Thursday, November 8, 7-9pm |
main gallery + drawing room
ANIMALIS
Images of animals in art have existed parallel to those of humans for as long as images (and objects) have been made by people. Our social, creative, and psychological evolution is inextricably tied to our relationships with animals. Whether it be the taming of the wolf, resulting in 'man's best friend', the tethering of the horse which magnified the power and geographic reach of humans, or the domestication of herd animals which contributed to the establishment of cities and large concentrations of people (and the growth of culture), they are all part of the trajectory of humanity to this point in time. All have been documented, explored, and deified throughout the long process by images and objects featuring animals. But this isn't just history (and pre-history). The animal remains a powerful subject in current art. So Manifest has chosen once again* to coordinate an exhibit that reveals the state of the animal in art. For this purpose we called for artists working in any media to submit works that in some way feature or address animals, real or imagined. For the resulting exhibit 144 artists from 31 states and 9 countries submitted 434 works for consideration. Thirty works by the following 24 artists from 16 states, and England were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and inclusion in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Brandin Baron Cara DeAngelis Virmarie DePoyster Mitch Eckert Felicia Forte Sarah Fox Jenny Freestone Mark Hosford Brian Kreydatus Kristen Leonard Beauvais Lyons Laura Mathews Leighton McWilliams Ally Morgan Daniella Napolitano Rhea O’Neill Jessica Orfe Nathan Perry Bill Price Masako Roberts Matthew Schenk Nikki Vahle-Schneider Paula Willmot Kraus Gretchen Woodman
*previously Manifest produced KINGDOM (2014) and BESTIARY (2010), two exhibits exploring the same theme. |
Mitch Eckert
Sarah Fox
Laura Mathews
Gretchen Woodman
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parallel space
SOIL & DIRT
For this exhibit 51 artists from 24 states and 2 countries submitted 153 works for consideration. Nine works by the following 8 artists from 7 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and inclusion in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Megan Curran Tracy Danet Jeanne Dodd Ed Erdmann Sarah Jantzi Judith Kruger Kaitlyn Jo Smith Kathleen Taylor
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Kaitlyn Jo Smith
Kathleen Taylor
Judith Kruger
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central Gallery + north Gallery
PLEIN AIR The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place. — Rachel Carson
The collection of work that resulted from our query includes a dominant proportion of the former—exceptional examples that echo the traditional. These are accented neatly by a handful of works that defy ordinary expectations for such a theme. We believe the dialogue between the two makes the whole all the more interesting in the gallery. For this exhibit 57 artists from 23 states and 3 countries submitted 185 works for consideration. Twenty-seven works by the following 15 artists from 12 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and inclusion in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: David Andree Martin Geiger Brittany Gilbert John Lasater Clayton Lewis Michael McCaffrey Oliver Meinerding Joe Morzuch Claudia O'Steen (with Aly Ogasian) Nathan Perry Scott Ramming Christopher Ryan Mimi Sheiner Abigail Smithson Jesse Thomas
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David Andree
Scott Ramming
Nathan Perry
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| December 14, 2018 - January 11, 2019 | Preview Reception: Thursday, December 13, 7-9pm |
main gallery
9th 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 92 artists from 27 states and Canada submitted 256 works for consideration. Fourteen works by the following 14 artists from 9 states (California, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Texas) 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, printmaking, drawings, sculptures, and 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. It is worth noting also that a number of the artists in the 'former student' category are now themselves working as professors.
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NEW ENGLAND In our first fourteen seasons Manifest's projects included works by artists in 50 states and 40 countries. Starting with our 10th season Manifest launched a new ongoing series of exhibits focusing on works by artists living in our own three-state region. Four years ago we added projects that also focused on other definable regions outside our own. These Regional Showcases were offered to complement the ordinarily very wide geographical makeup of most of our 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. For our sixth year of exhibits showcasing works from other regions we decided to feature regions which, like with state-based comparisons we've done before, represent distinctly different geographical areas of our country. NEW ENGLAND and the GULF SOUTH 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. Representing six and five states respectively, these two regions are home to major international art centers and educational institutions which are involved in the global art scene. (Previously Illinois and Pennsylvania, 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 248 works by 77 artists in New England and the Gulf South (Maine,
Vermont,
New Hampshire,
Massachusetts,
Rhode Island,
Connecticut, and Texas,
Louisiana,
Mississippi,
Alabama,
Florida) for this two-exhibit parallel regional survey. Nine works by the following 5 artists from New England 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: Beverly Barber Donald Beal Alayna Coverly Laura Sanda Patricia Schappler
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Alayna Coverly
Donald Beal
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parallel space
GULF SOUTH In our first fourteen seasons Manifest's projects included works by artists in 50 states and 40 countries. Starting with our 10th season Manifest launched a new ongoing series of exhibits focusing on works by artists living in our own three-state region. Four years ago we added projects that also focused on other definable regions outside our own. These Regional Showcases were offered to complement the ordinarily very wide geographical makeup of most of our 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. For our sixth year of exhibits showcasing works from other regions we decided to feature regions which, like with state-based comparisons we've done before, represent distinctly different geographical areas of our country. NEW ENGLAND and the GULF SOUTH 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. Representing six and five states respectively, these two regions are home to major international art centers and educational institutions which are involved in the global art scene. (Previously Illinois and Pennsylvania, 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 248 works by 77 artists in New England and the Gulf South (Maine,
Vermont,
New Hampshire,
Massachusetts,
Rhode Island,
Connecticut, and Texas,
Louisiana,
Mississippi,
Alabama,
Florida) for this two-exhibit parallel regional survey. Eight works by the following 7 artists from Gulf South 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: Lyle Colombo Christine Di Staola Kurt Dyrhaug Joseph Holsapple Ming Hong David Knox Benjamin Shamback
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Kurt Dyrhaug
Joseph Holsapple
Ming Hong
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central gallery
ONE 9
Overview About the work the artist states: My research in the astronomical led to a phenomenon called the Overview Effect, which is a term used to describe the profound awe and deep cognitive shift experienced by astronauts viewing Earth from space. The phenomenon has been described by astronauts as a profound sense of bliss and timelessness, a difference-dissolving unity, and an interconnected euphoria. Further research revealed that the Overview Effect is said to be a state similar to that achieved by meditating Buddhist monks. Not only is it the goal of my work to create such an experience, but I myself have had similar epiphanies during yoga and meditation. Many of these profound experiences have driven my artistic practice over the years. Wishing to create even a glimpse of the Overview Effect for my audience, I drew the Earth and Moon for us to view as though from space. These drawings also became a part of my immersive drawing installation, Omniscient Body. Marina Fridman is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist. Engrossed in traditional drawing and painting in the early years of her education, Fridman now works in a wide range of materials and techniques. Through immersive drawing installations, sculptural works, photography and video, she highlights our overlooked relationships with the astronomical and the microscopic, causing the viewer to reconsider their own scale, and their place in time and space. Fridman holds a BFA Degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Sculpture from Alfred University in New York. She is a three-time recipient of the prestigious Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, and in 2018 received an Honorable Mention in the International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. Marina has been awarded Residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the League Residency at Vyt, the I-Park Foundation, and the Creative Practices Institute. She was one of two one-year Artists in Residence at Manifest in 2015/2016. This December she is attending the invitational Art BnB Jerusalem residency at Hamiffal Cultural Center in Jerusalem, Israel. Marina’s work has been published by Hi-Fructose Magazine (online), Booooooom, Art in America, ACS Magazine, the Manifest International Drawing Annual, Foundations of Drawing (Random House), North Light Books' Art Journey, and Strokes of Genius, to name a few. Her works have been exhibited and collected in the US and Canada. Aside from her creative practice, Marina is an educator of visual arts at Grande Prairie Regional College in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada. In 2013 she founded and continues to run The Drawing Source, a website providing free, quality online education in representational drawing. 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 eight 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 9th Annual Manifest Prize included multiple levels of jury review of 927 works by 296 artists from 40 states, Washington D.C., and 14 countries including Brazil, Canada, China, England, India, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Slovenia, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States. The jury consisted of a total of 18 different volunteer jurors from across the U.S. Each level of the process 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 winner and 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 Manifest's Central Gallery from December 13, 2018 through January 11, 2019. It will be accompanied by excerpts from juror statements and the artist's statement. The Runners-up: Ten finalist works (runners up to the winner) will also be featured in the season-documenting Manifest Exhibition Annual publication (MEAs15). These are works by Kim Anderson (Bradenton Florida), Lisa Bryson (Jamul, California), Christopher Burk (Columbus, Ohio), Scott Hazard (Raleigh, North Carolina), Aneka Ingold (Tampa Florida), Yongjae Kim (Brooklyn, New York), Damon Mohl (Crawfordsville, Indiana), Dora Natella (Granger, Indiana), Greg Sand (Clarksville, Tennessee), and Jaye Schlesinger (Ann Arbor, Michigan).
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north gallery
GEOMETRIFICATION Geometry in art is older than recorded history. One might suppose that pre-historic humanity derived a sense for the importance of considering shape, size, relative position of figures, and the properties of space by observing the stars, planning and arranging shelters, decorating their own skin, creating vessels to carry food and water, and infusing their magical understanding of the order of the Universe into talismans that could carry it from person to person, and preserve it forward in time. So it is that our civilization has been shaped by these primal relationships to formal order. Geometry in art is just one tip of a multifaceted iceberg. Whether it be the underlying compositional plan (or subliminal psychological program, if you will) of a narrative religious painting, an architectural motif of some vast Middle Eastern mosque, a scientist-artist's analysis of human proportions, or some optically tantalizing modern painting's pattern, geometry wends its way through our visual culture. Manifest set out to produce this exhibit to discover how geometry shows up in the art of today. So we offered an invitation to artists from around the world to submit for jury consideration work which is heavily influenced by, or is in some way about, geometry. For this exhibit 107 artists submitted 331 works from 25 states, Washington D.C., and 7 countries including Canada, England, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, Scotland, and the United States. Eleven works by the following 11 artists from 8 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and inclusion in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Helmut Amann Margery Amdur Adrienne Dixon Corey Drieth Janet Gorzegno Jessica Hancock Jenniffer Omaitz Gibbs Rounsavall Leah Smith Gabriel Strader-Brown Werner Sun
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Jenniffer Omaitz
Leah Smith
Adrienne Dixon
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| January 25 - February 22 | Preview Reception: Thursday, January 24, 7-9pm |
main gallery + drawing room
SIMILITUDE
As we stated four years ago when we last approached the theme of portraiture, technology exacerbates people’s retreat into the upper limb of their body, encouraging portraiture on a mass scale in the form of social networks such as Facebook and Instagram with their flood of 'selfies'. Facial recognition tools which help sort photos of friends and family based on images of their face, and 'facetime' calling also put the focus on the front of the human head, and puts a premium on visual identity. The center of our humanity has coalesced into the mind, behind the face. When we think of each other, we (usually) start with the face. Recognition matters. Throughout art history the ability of the artist to not only capture a likeness but also the character and spirit, if you will, of the subject has defined whole careers. With this in mind we offered this call to artists for works that address the portrait. All manner of interpretations, explorations, and machinations involving the portrait were welcome, incluing traditional and non-traditional approaches in any media. For this exhibit 209 artists submitted 609 works from 37 states and 7 countries including Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Israel, Japan, and the United States. Twenty-nine works by the following 24 artists from 10 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and inclusion in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.
Presenting works by: Rob Anderson Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura Alberto Carol Roger Derrick Matthew Durante Todd Fife Shannon Fody Tina Gutierrez Soyoung Jung Travis Little Paul Loehle Steven Mastroianni Michael McCaffrey Jordan Morgan Jamie Mulac Dora Natella Bruno Perillo Carlton Pickett Eva Redamonti Julio Suarez Tana Tapson Nina Ulett Derek Wilkinson Katelyn Wolary
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Derek Wilkinson
Paul Loehle
Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura
Dora Natella
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parallel space
UTILITY Plying the gray areas between Art, Design and Craft, functional art can often appear to be more one, or the other. For this exhibit we are eager to share how artists have incorporated utility into their work, and how designers or craftspeople elevate the products of their labor with skill, sophisticated content, or a high degree of formal or creative refinement. Our goal was that this exhibit would result in a wide range of types of work, all aligning to the criteria that every piece must, in some way (including the ironic) be functional. For this highly focused exhibit 24 artists submitted 58 works from 13 states and 3 countries, including Canada, France, and the United States. Eight works by the following 8 artists from 6 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and inclusion in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.
Presenting works by: Nadia Belalia Laura Earle Blake Kennedy Robert Levy Gabriel Mo Dave Ryan & Josh Gumiela Ahree Song Kathleen Studebaker
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Blake Kennedy
Dave Ryan & Josh Gumiela
Ahree Song
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central gallery + north gallery
SINKS AND CHAIRS Sinks and chairs are subjects artists often turn to throughout their careers. As everyday objects they are both plentiful, varying in shape and size, and challenging in different ways. As banal objects they nevertheless carry the residue of human life within their forms, and so artists have used them as subjects to convey rich human-centered content as well as compelling media and compositional mastery. The use of sinks and chairs as primary subjects has become a thread winding its way throughout centuries of artwork. In honor of their lineage in art we set out to create an exhibition of works featuring these humble subjects. For this exhibit 95 artists submitted 240 works from 27 states and 3 countries, including Canada, England, and the United States. Eighteen works by the following 15 artists from 10 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and inclusion in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.
Presenting works by: Lisa Bryson Cole Carothers Christine Di Staola James Grubola Samantha Haring Jennifer Hecker Sean Hurley Ron Isaacs Judith Jia William Kitchens Alex T. Klein Dean Kube Cory Peeke Nathan Stromberg KCJ Szwedzinski
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Lisa Bryson
Sean Hurley
Cory Peeke
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| March 8 - April 5 | Preview Reception: Thursday, March 7, 7-9pm |
main gallery + drawing room
OHIO, KENTUCKY, INDIANA In 15 seasons Manifest's projects have included works by artists in 50 states and 43 countries. Beginning in its tenth season, we launched an ongoing series of exhibits focusing on works by artists in our three-state region. Four years ago we added projects that also focused on other definable regions outside our own. These Regional Showcases were offered to complement the very wide geographical makeup of most Manifest exhibits with a closer look at art being made 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 421 works by 132 artists from Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. Sixteen works by the following 13 artists from our three-state region (4 from Indiana, 6 from Ohio, and 3 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: Edward Bernstein Charles Boggs Kristine Donnelly Meg Lagodzki Sam Lowe Gary Mesa-Gaido Melanie Pennington William Potter Ethan Price Katy Richards Elizabeth Runyon Kitty Schroeder Jack St. John
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Sam Lowe
Ethan Price
Meg Lagodzki
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parallel space
FRAGMENTS Mihee Nahm creates oil and acrylic paintings that reflect the constant desire to retain, alter, or forget the past. Born and raised in South Korea until she was sixteen, Nahms sense of being a foreigner in the US for over a decade has led her to explore themes of memory, sense of place, and longing. Nahm holds a BFA degree from The Art Academy of Cincinnati, and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. She has exhibited work nationally and has been awarded an Artist Residency at the Vermont Studio Center, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. She currently lives and works in Grapevine, Texas. Of her work the artist states: "I create paintings and drawings addressing broad themes such as memory and time. The ideas I am interested in the most are the fragility of human memory and our constant desire to retain, alter, or forget the past. With these ideas in mind, I attempt to capture fleeting glimpses in my daily life that may or may not hold deeper meaning, like an unreturned key, or leaves found on my late grandmothers grave.” This exhibition is one of 7 selected from among 145 solo proposals submitted for consideration for Manifest’s 15th season.
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central gallery
OTHER SELVES Artist's Talk: Saturday, March 16 at 6pm (free) Ron Isaacs was born in Cincinnati in 1941. His parents moved back to their home county in rural Eastern Kentucky when he was twelve; he graduated from Berea College with a major in art and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, and from Indiana University with an MFA in painting. After teaching drawing and painting at the college level for thirty-six years he is currently Professor Emeritus, Eastern Kentucky University, and lives in Lexington, Kentucky with his wife Judy in a townhouse with his studio and workshop upstairs. He has exhibited nationally for a half-century, with a lengthy show record and has works included in a number of museum, institutional, corporate, and private collections. At seventy-seven, having never heard of a retired artist, he can hardly wait to see what he makes next. Of his work the artist states: "I combine imagery, often using paradoxical interruptions and metamorphoses to explore visual ideas and to suggest metaphors for the relationships of human life and nature, for memory, and the passage of time. I intend the content of the work to be as open-ended and evocative as possible, without being pretentious. My works stand exactly halfway between painting and sculpture. They take the form of elaborate relief constructions of Finnish birch plywood painted in acrylics in a trompe l’oeil (‘fool the eye’) manner. Trompe l’oeil devices provide the authority of direct observation, and I enjoy the fusion and confusion of real and illusory form.” This exhibition is one of 7 selected from among 145 solo proposals submitted for consideration for Manifest’s 15th season.
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north gallery
ONE SHOT Whether it be an 'alla prima' approach to painting, a spontaneous drawing, an inspired collage, or some other form of artwork, one can only marvel at such works done with grace, precision, aggressive passion, and finality—ultimately all in one sitting. Regardless of whether it was the result of a brief moment, or a long day of labor, a work of art made in one sitting tells a truth often hidden by other more refined works. With this in mind, we were eager to see what this truth looks like, and how it may vary from artist to artist, work to work. For this competitive call to artists all types of work were welcome, including traditional and non-traditional approaches in any media, and any subject, non-objective, abstract, conceptual, etc. The only requirement for eligibility was that the works be made in just one sitting. For this exhibit 115 artists submitted 351 works from 31 states, Washington D.C. and 8 countries including Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and the United States. Seventeen works by the following 13 artists from 11 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and inclusion in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Martin Beck Pirjo Berg Clayton Cusak John DenHouter Samantha Haring Rob Kolomyski Kevin Maginnis Perin Mahler Marcus Michels Keith Haley Robitaille Mimi Sheiner Kim Thorpe Jeff Wigman
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Rob Kolomyski
Keith Haley Robitaille
Perin Mahler
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| April 19 - May 17 | Preview Reception: Thursday, April 18, 7-9pm |
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. Five 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 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 177 artists from 41 states, Washington D.C., and 10 countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Taiwan, Uruguay, and the United States submitted 542 works for consideration. Forty-three works by the following 33 artists from 22 states and the countries of Canada and Norway were selected by a panel of volunteer jurors for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: John Adelman Cody Anderson Geoffrey Beadle Maria DiMauro Fred Draper Haley Farthing Susan Fraser-Hughes Victoria Goro-Rapoport Hiroshi Hayakawa Joon Hee Lee William Kitchens Trevor Knapp Anastasia Komarova Angela Livezey Robert Long Liz Meyer Joe Morzuch Bob Mosier Sarah Newton Anthony Pessler Caroline Peters Adam Rake Evie Richner Sarah Roberts Vanessa Rosalia Larsen Lauren Scavo-Fulk Patricia Schappler John Sproul Tanzanight Kathleen Thum Sherrie Tiderington Derek Wilkinson Simeon Youngmann
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John Adelman
Fred Draper
Evie Richner
Liz Meyer
Sarah Roberts
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central gallery + north gallery
PACKAGED The stuff is all around us, to the point of becoming a global bio-crisis. Yet it seems at once also invisible, like cruft between the highpoints of each new gadget, food staple, art supply, household product... you name it. Cardboard, Styrofoam, bubble wrap, foamcore, tissue paper, plastic wrap, paper bags, plastic bags, paperboard, aluminum cans, glass containers, plastic bottles, plywood, and on and on, are all just easy examples of the myriad of materials used in packaging other things, and which are usually tossed into landfills, to the roadside, or, perchance recycled, but are also no longer seen as 'useful' in their original form. Yet at Manifest we have seen sublime and compelling works of art give new life and meaning to such materials from time to time. Whether through pure recycling of pre-used materials into new forms, by employing them 'virgin' to create art, or by making more traditional work about them, for this competitive exhibition we invited artists to share works of art focused on, created from, or made about packaging materials of any and all types. For this exhibit 88 artists submitted 227 works from 25 states and 8 countries, including Canada, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uruguay, and the United States. Twenty-one works by the following 17 artists from 11 states and Germany were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and inclusion in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Jozef Bajus Craig Davidson Mitch Eckert Daniel Fiorda Isabel Gouveia Natasha Holmes Alex Lockwood Melanie Miller Emily Newman Joshua Newth Eva Wilcke Zelda Zinn
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Daniel Fiorda
Eva Wilcke
Joshua Newth
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| May 31 - June 28 | Preview Reception: Thursday, May 30, 7-9pm |
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 fifteenth 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 2018, 2019, or 2020 (undergraduate juniors, seniors, and those who graduated last year). For this exhibit 75 artists representing 59 academic institutions in 29 states across the U.S. and China submitted 204 works for consideration. Fifteen works by the following 13 artists representing 12 different academic institutions in 9 states are featured in the 15th 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 May 31st opening reception. Why is this important? The nine previous exhibit catalogs for Rites, and now the Manifest Exhibition Annuals, 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: Rachel DiCioccio Michael Fortenberry* Jon Hem Devon Henlser Ileana Hernandez Anlan Huang Ashley Julian Anya Kinsley Amanda Morgado Jason Rafferty Kristan Schwartztrauber Nathan Taylor Shara Vilagi
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Michael Fortenbery *
Anlan Huang
Devon Hensler
Anya Kinsley
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drawing room + parallel space
MAGNITUDE SEVEN An exhibit of works from across the U.S. and Canada, 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 in Cincinnati 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 fifteenth annual exhibit of works no larger than seven inches in any dimension. For this year's project 130 artists from 30 states and 9 countries submitted 412 works for consideration by Manifest's intensely competitive jury process. Thirty-three works by the following 23 artists from 15 states and Canada were selected for presentation in the gallery and the season-documenting Manifest Exhibition Annual. Presenting works by: Dylan Bannister Matthew Brennan Susan Bryant Katherine Colborn Frederick Fochtman Veronique Gambier-Davis Janet Gorzegno Mary Clara Hutchison Carole Kunstadt Anne Manley Lara Mann Atanas Mihaltchev Josh Spector Lawrence Tarpey Josh Winegar
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Dylan Bannister
Janet Gorzegno
Katlyn Brumfield
Brandice Guerra
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central gallery + north gallery
MAR 2018/19 Residency Conclusion Talk by the Artists: May 30, 6-7pm 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, the compelling creative culture that permeates all Manifest programs, and routine engagement with the visiting public during each of our nine exhibit periods each season. To cement their year of development each artist receives another benefit of the program–a MAR Showcase solo exhibition. These two solo exhibits feature works made by our two 2018/19 Artists in Residence, Armin Mersmann and Katelyn Wolary. This marks the culmination of their residency at Manifest which concludes in June, and serves as a celebration of their achievements, learning, and adoption into the broad Manifest 'family'.
IMPERMANENCE "My interests have become exceedingly experimental with more attention placed on the surfaces of the work itself. Discovering and rediscovering my chosen medium is the everlasting stimulus that keeps me interested and excited. Accidental process and meticulous planning co-mingle in all my work."
Armin Mersmann was born in Remscheid, Germany, in 1955. He immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1962. He grew up in an artistic environment and was greatly influenced and tutored by his father, Fritz, a successful oil painter. After six years of college, Mersmann began a successful stint as a portrait artist in Chicago. Although commission work was financially rewarding, he stopped doing it and soon found more interest in the fine art that at times is controversial but more satisfying conceptually. Mersmann has taught drawing, the Creative Process, iPhoneography, and Advanced Critique at the American Academy of Art, Chicago, Illinois; the Colorado Academy of Art, Boulder Colorado; Northwood University, Midland, Michigan; the Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, Michigan; and many workshops within the United States.
MOMENTS "This ongoing body of work is an expression of the love and beauty I discover through the daily-ness of paying a particular kind of attention. These paintings and drawings from life are uninhibited by fear, hesitation, or doubt. Rather, they are a record of my place in time, a celebration of being physically and spiritually present, and a ritualistic opportunity to pause and translate the moment in a series of actions and reactions to value, color and shape. In many ways, these works are an intentional rebellion to the expectations I have developed over time about art-making in the studio. Within the limited parameters of time and perception, the process of working quickly with my immediately available materials opens the door to freshness, play, and exploration. These efforts are vulnerable, honest and unedited. I feel limitless in making them, where each moment is an inexhaustible chance to create something new."
Katelyn Wolary (b. 1995) is a figurative representational artist from Wilmington, Ohio. She earned her BFA in Illustration from the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 2017, with a minor in Creative Writing. Coinciding with her undergraduate studies, she studied classical painting and drawing methods with local atelier-trained artist Richard Luschek from 2013-2015. In the summer of 2016, Katelyn attended the Illustration Academy workshop in Kansas City, Missouri, which emphasized the power of drawing above all else. Her work has been featured in the December 2018 issue of the Artists Magazine, and will be included in the upcoming Manifest INPA 9. She has exhibited works locally and was included twice in the Student Scholarship Exhibit at the Society of Illustrators in New York City. Katelyn currently lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she attends weekly open figure drawing at Manifest Drawing Center, enjoys employment as a sculptor and finishing artist for a fabrication shop, and continues to paint and travel (simultaneously) whenever the opportunity arises.
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Armin Mersmann
Armin Mersmann
Katelyn Wolary
Katelyn Wolary
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Manifest's 15th season is funded in
part by a grant from the Robert H. Reakirt Foundation, PNC Bank, Trustee. This season's programming is also supported by an impact grant
from ArtsWave, by a sustainability grant from
the Ohio Arts Council, and through the generous contributions of individual supporters who care deeply about the visual arts.
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