SEASON 20
EXHIBITIONS
September 2023 - August 2024
This exhibition season is financially assisted by a grant from the Josephine S. Russell
Charitable Trust, PNC Bank Trustee, and many individual donations, large and small, from across 40 states and three countries.
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Season 20 Launch! September 29 - October 27, 2023 |
Ticketed Preview - Annual Fund Benefit (GET TICKETS HERE) |
main gallery + central gallery + north gallery
PAINTED 2023 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 ten years ago in 2013 to inaugurate our expanded gallery. PAINTED 2023 is the sixth 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, 174 artists submitted 702 works from 35 states and 9 countries, including Austria, Canada, China, England, Japan, Russia, Taiwan, Turkey, and the United States. Thirty works by the following 23 artists from 14 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: Edgar Cano-Lopez Yulia Gasio Glen Hansen David Heshmatpour Susan Hoffer Lynne Jones Rob Kolomyski Paul Loehle Perin Mahler Monika Malewska Andrew Martin Michael McCaffrey Justin McIntosh Marcus Michels Kenneth Millington RD Mitchell Joe Morzuch Mihee Nahm Lucy Kay Plowe Sandy Rice Marc Ross Benjamin Shamback Gabriel Zea
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Edgar Cano-Lopez
Lynne Jones
Rob Kolomyski
Lucy Kay Plowe
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drawing room + parallel space
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. *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 53 artists submitted 193 works from 22 states and 4 countries, Belgium, Canada, France, and the United States. Nineteen works by the following 13 artists from 12 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Gary Barton Shawn Edrington Ed Ferszt Antonio Gonzalez-Garcia Janet Gorzegno Melissa Gwyn Mikey Hernandez Olga Kosheleva Sophie McVicar Tanya Pirasteh Scott Teplin Ripley Whiteside Dalton Zheng
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Gary Barton
Tanya Pirasteh
Ed Ferszt
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