Season 22 Launch
Celebrating Manifest's 529th Exhibition!
September 26 - October 27, 2025

main gallery + central gallery + north gallery

PAINTED 2025
Manifest Gallery's 7th Biennial Survey of Contemporary Painting

At some point many generations ago society reached a level where ordinary people could spend a lifetime perfecting their ability to mix and apply paint in extraordinary ways. Manifest established this exhibit as a permanent biennial project in 2013 to inaugurate our expanded gallery. PAINTED 2025 is the seventh biennial presentation of this survey of contemporary painting.

PAINTED joins Drawn as a recurring gallery exhibition designed to complement our recurring 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 156 artists submitted 545 works from 33 states, Puerto Rico, Washington D.C., and 4 countries, including Germany, India, Italy, and the United States. Thirty works by the following 22 artists from 20 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.

We are pleased to present works by:

Caitlin Berndt
Brooklyn, New York

Lisa Bryson
Jamul, California

Brooks Cashbaugh
Iowa City, Iowa

Katelyn Chapman
Hanahan, South Carolina

Lawrence Cromwell
Baltimore, Maryland

Grace Flott
Seattle, Washington

Adrian Hatfield
Ferndale, Michigan

Susan Hoffer
Lake Placid, New York

Rob Kolomyski
Woodbury, Minnesota

David Linneweh
West Chicago, Illinois

Perin Mahler
Rolling Hills, California

Andrew Martin
Lubbock, Texas

Marcus Michels
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Natalija Mijatovic
Newark, Delaware

Sara Pedigo
Saint Augustine, Florida

Marc Ross
Columbus, Ohio

Joshua Schaefer
Voorhees, New Jersey

Shelby Shadwell
Laramie, Wyoming

Benjamin Shamback
Mobile, Alabama

Carlton Scott Sturgill
New Orleans, Louisiana

Nathan Sullivan
Swanzey, New Hampshire

Dganit Zauberman
Guilford, Connecticut

Adrian Hatfield

Shelby Shadwell

Grace Flott

Joshua Schaefer

drawing room + parallel space

AQUACHROME
Biennial Exhibit of Contemporary Watercolor*

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.

*Along with watercolor, works in gouache, ink wash, and other similar media were accepted for consideration as a subset of the broader Manifest painting biennial.

For this exhibit 48 artists submitted 164 works from 20 states, Puerto Rico, and 3 countries, including Canada, Cyprus, and the United States. Nineteen works by the following 13 artists from 12 states and Canada were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.

Presenting works by:

Elisa Albrecht
Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Milena Guberinic
Ridgeway, Canada

Mikey Hernandez
Irving, Texas

Kristen Letts Kovak
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Maria Laureno
Chicago, Illinois

Tom Leytham
Montpelier, Vermont

Ambrin Ling
Fayetteville, Arkansas

Scott McDonald
Lincoln, Nebraska

Matthew McHugh
Greeley, Colorado

Irene Pantelis
Bethesda, Maryland

Adrian Rhodes
Hartsville, South Carolina

Katherine Sullivan
Holland, Michigan

Emily Wingate
Indianapolis, Indiana

Mikey Hernandez

Ambrin Ling

Kristen Letts Kovak

Ticketed Preview - Annual Fund Benefit:
Thursday, Jan. 22, 7-9pm
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Public Opening: Friday, Jan. 23, 6-9pm

TICKETED PREVIEW - Annual Fund Benefit:
Thursday, July 9, 7-9pm
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PUBLIC OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, July 10, 6-9pm

Manifest is supported by sustainability funding from the Ohio Arts Council, and through the generous direct contributions of hundreds of individual supporters and private foundations who care deeply about Manifest's mission for the visual arts.

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cincinnati, ohio 45206

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3464 Central Parkway
cincinnati, ohio 45223