SEASON 17
EXHIBITS IN THE GALLERY
September 2020 - August 2021
This exhibition season was financially assisted by the Charles Moerlein Foundation, Fifth Third Bank, Trustee.
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PREVIOUS SEASON 17 EXHIBITS:
| September 25 - October 23, 2020 |
Limited Admission Opening Preview: Friday, Sept. 25, 6-9pm |
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main gallery
LET THERE BE. Supported by FotoFocus Photography and lens-based art is often, even unconsciously, taken for granted as being disembodied from physical reality. However, without catalytic objects such works would not be possible. For this exhibition Manifest sets out to remind artists and the public of this fact by showcasing works that reveal the ‘objectness’ of photography either through display of the works themselves, the mechanisms crafted to create lens-based experiences, dialogs between photographic works and their physical subjects, or narrative works explaining the complicated entanglement of light and form. By playing off the notion stated in FotoFocus’s originally planned Biennial theme that, “Light is a fundamental aspect of photography,” Manifest completes the statement by adding, “...and physical form gives photography its substance and relevance to the human experience." For this exhibit 58 artists from 21 states and the countries of Armenia, Australia, England, Germany, Italy, and New Zealand submitted 247 works. Seventeen works by the following 12 artists from 8 states, and the countries of Armenia, England, and Italy were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Francesco Amorosino Trey Broomfield Bridget Conn Nicki Crock Richard Dickson Claudia Hollister Prince Lang Lynette Miller Lake Newton Carolyn Norton Morgan Ford Willingham Yaroslav Zabavskiy
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Francesco Amorosino
Lynette Miller
Richard Dickson
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Professor Emerita from the Cleveland Institute of Art in Photography and Digital Imaging, Mary Jo Toles has contributed as an arts educator for three decades. Recognized for her development of experimental processes including high-voltage photographic imagery and eco-friendly green photographic processes, Toles is an inventive contributor to the academic and professional scope of this historical and contemporary field that crosses both arts and science. Toles has been published in the US, Japan and Germany. She is a recipient of Ohio, Florida, and Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships and National Endowment for the Humanities project grant. She represented the state of Ohio as an Artist in Residence at Cimelice, in the Czech Republic. Toles' work is represented in collections nationally, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago, M.I.T. List Foundation, and JPMorgan Chase Art Collection. Exhibitions include the Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C, Boston Photographic Resource Center, SPACES Gallery, MOCA-Cleveland, and the Kohler, Akron, Cleveland, Columbus, and Grand Rapids Art Museums.
Of her work the artist states: "This exhibit includes images from an ongoing series that has evolved over years of exploration working with high-voltage photography. The more recent work represents eco-friendly chemistry for black and white photography. These photographs are evidence of an interaction between gelatin silver paper processed with organic plant-based phenol developers. The Caffenol process uses everyday ingredients: coffee, Vitamin C and washing soda. The results are paper negative shadowgraphs rendered in subtle tonal ranges of the gelatin silver emulsion. Works on view are photographic prints created in the darkroom, where nuanced experimentation makes it impossible to fully predict outcomes yet summons the beauty and complexity of form produced in the residual images. Selected objects placed on the light-sensitive surface, are exposed to high-voltage discharge from a horizontal resonating Tesla coil with added ambient light. Images are often paired or arranged as elements in more complex non-hierarchical grid configurations.” This exhibition was selected from among 162 proposals submitted in consideration for Manifest’s 17th season.
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Multiple Images of a Complex Nature Chaddy Dean Smith is a fine art photographer best known for his ongoing photographic study of the American landscape. Based in the Dallas Fort Worth area, he is a professor of photography at Texas A&M University, Commerce. He served on the University of Oklahoma's School of Art faculty for thirteen years before coming to TAMUC and has more than thirty years of experience in both the applied and fine art fields of photography. Smith has conducted many workshops, including a pinhole workshop at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. He has presented his award-winning photographs nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Among venues that have featured his work are the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, OK; Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK; Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX; The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO; Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China; Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH; and Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA. The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, chose Smith’s triptychs for its Reverberations: Diptychs and Triptychs exhibition and for inclusion in its permanent collection. Smiths Multiple Images of a Complex Nature series was selected as a Jurors Pick of the 2019 LensCulture Black & White Photography Awards. Of his work the artist states: "There was a time when I was very frustrated with my approach to landscape photography. I thought that I had to present an idea within one frame, and that landscapes could only be viewed as a single fragment and seen from a single point. Italian Renaissance artists demonstrated that if you change your point of view, you would see the same scene differently. In painting, this led to the rise of one-point and then three-point perspective in the early 1400s, as artists sought to achieve the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface. Their goal was to seek a certain reality or a certain naturalistic truth in their work, to define a trompe l'oeil. Cubist artists such as Picasso carried this idea further in the early 1900s, which fragmented his painted images to include a constantly shifting point of view. I began to work with these concepts to reconstruct landscapes using fragments of different viewpoints in order to better show my personal, internal vision of the landscape. I put three photographs together, so that at first glance they look like a panorama but after closer examination are three different viewpoints of the landscape pieced together. Using this technique I expand or condense the landscape, sometimes showing the passage of time or even a more abstract view of the subject. This method allows me to make images that deal with Landscape as fact, as culture and as pure form.” This exhibition was selected from among 162 proposals submitted in consideration for Manifest’s 17th season.
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Life and Solitude, Death Valley Matthew Zory, in addition to being a photographer, is the Assistant Principal Bass (Trish and Rick Bryan Chair) for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the rhythm section bassist for the Cincinnati Pops. His most recent book, Through the Lens: The Remaking of Cincinnati’s Music Hall, is a photographic essay that documents the recent historic renovation of Samuel Hannaford’s 19th century building. Zory’s photography has been featured in numerous publications including Analog Magazine, AEQAI arts journal, the Manifest International Photography Annual, Cincinnati Magazine and the Cincinnati Enquirer and has appeared in a number of museums and galleries including the Taft Museum of Art, Carnegie Center for the Arts, Wash Park Art and Indian Hill Gallery. Of his work the artist states: "I love the desert, it’s my heart’s home. The sounds and silence, the smell and feel of the dry air, the vastness, and the mystery too. Things that have short visual lives, the occasional organic form in the shifting sands, and the sense of isolation, do they parallel our connection to this earth? I knew these scenes of textures, shapes and light would lend themselves to the beauty of the platinum palladium printing process, a process that is as old as photography (1870’s) but new to me. I came to it out of a need to be more hands on with the creation of my prints. The texture of the paper and the glow and delicacy of the metals absorbed into the paper reflect the experience of being there. These pictures were made using my Rolleicord with Kodak Tri-X 400 film (the squares) or my DSLR, and then converted to digital negatives for the contact prints.” This exhibition was selected from among 162 proposals submitted in consideration for Manifest’s 17th season.
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LET HERE BE As is customary with Manifest’s responses to the FotoFocus Biennial themes, we offer parallel exhibits—one calling for lens-based work (photography or otherwise), and one calling for non-lens-based work (everything else), but both of which address a similar overarching concept. Our expectation is that, as usual, the two exhibits will engage in playful dialog from one gallery space to the other, adding to the viewer’s experience of the whole collection of works on view. LET HERE BE called for works of any media, subject, or genre (excluding photography or lens-based works) which specifically address tangibility or physicality as a primary aspect of the experience of the work. Whether it be through how media is applied, assembled, or used, subject choices, narrative aspects, or installation considerations, works were expected to cause the viewer to pause and consider their own physicality, or reflect on the nature of being in the gallery space with objects or images, here and now. For this exhibit 60 artists from 25 states and the countries of Canada, Israel, Japan, Mexico, and Scotland submitted 217 works. Sixteen works by the following 10 artists from 7 states, Canada, and Israel were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Deidre Argyle Elaine Buss Dylan DeWitt Andrew Leventis Michael McCaffrey Adam Rosenthal Chen Shapira Nicole Sleeth Joseph Tigert Jake Weigel
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Dylan DeWitt
Michael McCaffrey
Nicole Sleeth
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| November 6 - December 4, 2020 | Limited Admission Opening Preview (Tickets): Friday, Nov 6, 6-9pm |
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BEING IN AMERICA “America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Today the world (of humanity) has been largely unified by a varnish applied by the hand of an invisible virus. In contrast, personal experiences are more polarized than ever, both internationally and within the boundaries of many countries, including the United States of America. It is worth noting that if "language is a virus", as Laurie Anderson's work of that title suggests, then so might politics, government, knowledge, good and bad behavior, religion, and culture in general all be viral in nature as well. We are all the effects of causes we barely know. With this in mind, given the vise-like pressure now placed on all we do on a daily basis—decisions, calculated risks, eating, socializing, living life, choosing our representatives and leaders—what does it mean to be in a country that is, as John Adams reminds us, "a government of laws, not of men"? What sort of lens has been placed before our eyes, through which we now observe our circumstances, and this place called America, in a new light? How are artists documenting this today, in advance of the future editors of Art History? With this we asked how artists record, through creative and thoughtful means, thoughts, feelings, and observations on what it means to be in America today, whether from the point of view of one living here now, of those who aspire to be here one day, or from those who observe at a distance. The theme was wide open to interpretation, and works needed not be over-stated, nor political in nature. Works that comment or reflect on being in America today were welcome for consideration. This exhibition will have opened to the public only a few days after a major turning point in American history. While at the time of calling to artists we had no way of predicting either the show, nor the current state of America at the time of the exhibit we were confident the resulting combination of works would be potent and thought-provoking. We believe it is. For this exhibit 110 artists submitted 399 works from 34 states, Washington D.C., and 3 countries, including Canada, England, and the United States. Fourteen works by the following 13 artists from 10 states and the countries of Canada, and England were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Mike Callaghan Raheleh Filsoofi Katherine McLean Forster Kathleen Tunnell Handel Lara Ivanovic Daniel Koobir Kate Lackman Jinwoo Hwon Lee Kevin McGannon Randolph Melick Hillel O'Leary Caleb Stoltzfus Andrew Youngblom
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Raheleh Filsoofi
Kate Lackman
Hillel O'Leary
Randolph Melick
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The Past Instructions For Its Use Yohanna M. Roa is a Colombian-American trans-disciplinary artist and art historian based in New York City. She attends the Women and Gender Perspectives program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Roa holds a master's degree in Visual Arts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts from the Departmental Institute of Fine Arts of Colombia. In 2019 she was an artist in residence at the NARS Foundation NYC. In 2018 she developed the project, The Journey to Mamacaltepec Momoxco, during an artistic residency at Calpulli Tecalco ONG in Mexico City. Roa received the Young Creators Award from the Ministry of Culture of Colombia. Roa's works have been featured in a number of solo and group exhibitions at various venues such as La Bodega Gallery NY, Artlatinou in Mexico City, White Box in Harlem NY, Ruiz & Healy Art Gallery, Gallery Valenzuela & Klener in Bogota Colombia, Raúl Anguiano Museum in Guadalajara Mexico, Luz y Oficios Gallery in Havana Cuba, ARTBO in Arte Camara Colombia, Mc Nay Museum in San Antonio Texas USA, and Chihuahua Station Gallery among others.
Of her work the artist states: "I am a visual artist and feminist art historian. My practices around art focus on the uses of memory, the archive and the historical materiality of objects. My interest is to make indications that reveal obstructions, gaps and lacks in the different forms of production and transmission of information and knowledge; in particular the transformations and re-significations of the images, which arise from the relationship between, contents, histories, stories, contexts and geographical places. For me, the past is something we build from the present.” This exhibition was selected from among 162 proposals submitted in consideration for Manifest’s 17th season.
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GROWN The passage of time is measured, in part, by our state of mind. When we're young it moves so slowly. As we age, time's passing quickens. While it is unclear whether this perceptual phenomenon is linear in progression, or logarithmic, one thing is clear, adulthood comes with (or is perhaps catalyzed by) the recognition of the limits involved. Historically, cultures would enact fairly strict rites of passage which served as a powerful albeit symbolic threshold which divided a person's time in childhood from their time in adulthood. One day you're a child, the next you're an adult, and you could point to a specific point in time and event when this change happened. Like birth and death, this was quite magical in its implications and impact on the individual. It oriented them, and fitted them into their society. In this way, society, in its widely varying pockets, clans, and cultures, played a direct and intentional role in self-definition—a definition built on a traditional (multi-generational) history and understanding of its people's place in the world and universe. Today we ooze from childhood into adulthood. The threshold is not so clear. On one hand children are exposed to things far too mature for them to understand at such a young age. On the other hand people remain dependent upon their parents into their 20's and 30's, uncertain of who they are or what they are meant to do in life. It seems the modern world in all its sophistication may have redefined childhood, and therefore adulthood, and now we have to decide what that means for ourselves. How are the concepts of adulthood and maturity addressed in visual art of today? How do artists reflect on these ideas as it pertains to today's world or to historical or imaginary cultures? We believe artists have something to say about what it means to be an adult, to be mature, so we invited artists around the world to answer these questions and more by sharing their works of art relevant to these concepts. For this exhibit 24 artists submitted 82 works from 10 states. Seven works by the following 6 artists from 6 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Tom Bartel* Margaret Davis Matthew McHugh Ruth Ross Aaron Wilder Cheryl Patton Wu
* Due to pandemic-related impacts affecting artists and availability of works, installations may vary. Some works will not be on view in the gallery. All jury-selected works will be featured online in social media features, shared in the VR Tour linked from this page, and published in the Manifest Exhibition Annual.
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Cheryl Patton Wu
Aaron Wilder
Tom Bartel*
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ARTIFICIAL LIGHT
“The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.” ― Jean Baudrillard
While electricity powers much of society, it is specifically artificial light that has become the primary vehicle of nearly all our communications. It has extended our work days, and formed the avatars of our virtual existences. We have become light-based beings... How do artists of today incorporate the use of artificial light in their process? How does artificial light serve as a subject in visual art? Does the synthetic nature of such illumination impact the content of artists' work? We invited artists around the world to answer these questions and more, all centered on the subject of Artificial Light. For this exhibit 61 artists from 26 states and 3 countries, Canada, Israel, and the United States submitted 257 works. Nine works by the following 8 artists from 6 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Jenny Carey Jacob Crook Eric Forman Hans Habeger Duncan Hill Joshua Penrose James Ritchie Ericka Sobrack
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Eric Forman
Ericka Sobrack
Hans Habeger
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MODIFIED modify verb
Art making in general is a process about modification. But in developing this exhibition we were interested in how artworks can be about or depict the process of tuning, refining, or altering subjects, their contexts, or materials in order to achieve a different purpose or point. This concept was wide open to interpretation and application of the theme 'modified'. For this exhibit 62 artists from 22 states and 3 countries, including Brazil, Canada, and the United States submitted 233 works. Twenty-one works by the following 13 artists from 8 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Leslie Bellavance Greta Boesel Carol Boram-Hays Sarah Deppe Drew Etienne Skylar Fleming Dennis Gordon Dmitry Grudsky CT King Perin Mahler Amy Mahnick Steve Novick Mark Partridge
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Dennis Gordon
Dmitry Grudsky
Carol Boram-Hays
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| December 11, 2020 - January 8, 2021 |
Limited Admission Opening Preview (Tickets): Friday, Dec. 11, 6-9pm |
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11th Annual TAPPED The relationship between artists and their current or former instructors 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 (or insisted upon) is a chain-reaction process that develops across our lifetime. All of us who have been students carry forward our teachers' 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 artist-teacher bond, and in honor of instructors working hard to help artists tap into a higher mind relative to art and life, Manifest is proud to present TAPPED, an annual exhibit that presents paired works of art by current or former artist/teacher pairs. For this exhibit 61 artists submitted 215 works from 19 states and 3 countries, including Canada, Poland, and the United States. Twenty-two works by the following 22 artists from 12 states and Poland were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. The artists are listed in pairings to illustrate their teacher/student relationship (past or present). Works on view will include paintings, drawings, prints, 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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HOARD “Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.” Collecting things has surely been a hallmark of humanity since our earliest days as a species. It is in part thanks to the remnants of things accumulated, cherished or otherwise, and then hoarded in caves, clay pots, sunken ships, dried wells, libraries, crypts, and more that we have been able to discern some thread of a history of humanity over time to this day. Even art as a phenomenon of civilization has been shaped by one form of collecting or another—museums, powerful people or institutions amassing value or expressing their taste, cultural movements reinforcing identities, and so on. Some works of art are themselves representative of this process, one of accumulation, categorization, and hoarding in one form or another. How do artists use such cumulative processes to convey meaning, to create valuable experiences for the viewer, to express content or aesthetic moments beyond the raw material itself? For this exhibit Manifest invited artists to share works that in some way do this, and reveal the power of a dragon's hoard. For this exhibit 49 artists submitted 177 works from 23 states and 3 countries, including Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Nine works by the following 9 artists from 6 states and Canada were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Larry Cressman Katherine Duclos Kim Flora Joseph Holsapple Julie Jenkinson Jason Lanegan Curt Lund Jarrid Scott Hannah Zimmerman
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Katherine Duclos
Curt Lund
Jarrid Scottparallel space
RESPONSE Derek Wilkinson’s figurative paintings and drawings have been included in over one hundred group exhibitions across the United States. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas, and the Emporia Arts Center in Emporia, Kansas. His work has been selected for twenty-four exhibition awards including a Best in Show at “Richeson 75: International Art Competition Figure/Portrait 2011,” First Place at “National Small Oil Painting Exhibition 2012,” First Place Award at “PINNACLE: National Juried Art Competition,” in 2016, and Third Place at “2018 Oil Painting National Exhibition.” His work is in a couple of public collections including Minot State University, and Baker University. Wilkinson grew up in the Pacific Northwest and received a BFA in painting from Washington State University, in Pullman, Washington. He continued his studies in painting and drawing at Arizona State University, in Tempe, Arizona, where he received an MFA in 2006. Derek currently resides in Emporia, Kansas with his wife and daughter, and has been teaching painting and drawing at Emporia State University since 2009.
Of his work the artist states: "My artwork is a response to the stress, strain, silliness, and satisfaction that life presents. Completing numerous self-portraits has allowed me to explore the depths of my emotional and mental states. In addition, the identity of the subject becomes ubiquitous, allowing the viewer to become more receptive to the changing content that is being expressed from one piece to another. For that reason, self-portraits function as universally expressive vehicles, allowing the viewer to place themself in the mind of the artist.” This exhibition was selected from among 162 proposals submitted in consideration for Manifest’s 17th season.
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ONE 11
Many Moons Of her work the artist states: "In my work I desire to create a generative space that tethers us as one in the vastness of the cosmos and the voids between, communicating what cannot be seen but felt – the vibrations that are part of us all, echoes from billions of years ago.... As a “conceptual voyager” I play with cosmologies created when scientists and artists imagine, making work that posits, as George Johnson suggests science does, “…a glorious human construction, an artful fitting of the data into a carefully crafted mental framework, a construction of towers that just possibly might have been built another way.” I hope in my work to create a shimmering body of work coalesced in the uneasy thin space between what I do and don’t yet understand and the erotic dark energy threading me to all.”
Carol Prusa is a mid-career contemporary artist known for her meticulous silverpoint technique and use of unexpected materials from sculpted resin and fiberglass to metal leaf and LED lights. In the 2015 catalogue essay for the exhibition Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns, Bruce Weber called Carol Prusa “one of the most innovative artists working in metalpoint today.” Born in Chicago, Prusa lives and works in South Florida and exhibits internationally, including at Brintz Gallery/375 Gallery (Palm Beach) and Bluerider Art (Taipei). Her work is included in numerous public and private collections, including the Perez Art Museum (Miami), The Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Telfair Art Museum (Savannah), and the Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection. ABOUT THE $5,000 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 inspires excellence. Therefore we determined ten 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 11th Annual Manifest Prize included multiple levels of jury review of 1027 works by 214 artists from 38 states, Washington D.C., and 7 countries including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, and the United States. The jury consisted of a total of 20 different volunteer jurors from across the U.S. and Canada. 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 11, 2020 through January 8, 2021. It will be accompanied by excerpts from juror statements and the artist's statement. The Finalists: The Artists of the Ten Runner-up / Finalist Works: Raymond Baccari (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Patricia Bellan-Gillen (Burgettstown, Pennsylvania), Lisa Bryson (Jamul, California), Rosalinda Cabrera (Romeoville, Illinois), Dana Kotler (Weehawken, New Jersey), Sadhbh Mowlds (Carbondale, Illinois), Elena Peteva (Providence, Rhode Island).
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HOMAGE Whether it is intended as an homage to a deeply respected fellow artist, or simply a work representing a direct influence by the other's artwork, artists often pay a form of homage to their historical mentors in the things they make. We wonder how this shows up in artwork of today—how historical influences and bonds of aesthetic and intellectual lines of thought are integrated into creative production and expression. With this exhibit Manifest invited artists to share their works that represent such tributes to their inspirational predecessors, kindred spirits, and creative pathfinders. For this exhibit 87 artists submitted 273 works from 30 states and 5 countries, including Canada, England, New Zealand, Scotland, and the United States. Fourteen works by the following 9 artists from 8 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Michael Banning Larissa Barnat* Kenneth Batista Charles Browning Sabra Crockett James Ritchie Benjamin Shamback John Troy Chris Vena
* Due to pandemic-related impacts affecting artists and availability of works, installations may vary. Some works will not be on view in the gallery. All jury-selected works will be featured online in social media features, shared in the VR Tour linked from this page, and published in the Manifest Exhibition Annual. |
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Chris Vena
John Troy
Sabra Crockett| January 22 - February 19, 2021 |
Limited Admission Opening Preview (TICKETED): Friday, Jan. 22, 6-9pm |
THE FIVE THEMES PROJECT — For this fourth exhibit period of our 17th season Manifest has created a very special set of exhibitions for the second annual Five Themes Project—offering five concurrent interrelated shows. This iteration of the project proposes one puzzle with many solutions—inviting the viewer to draw connections from exhibit to exhibit and work to work in order to discern dynamic narratives, story lines, and interactive epiphanies from Who, What, Where, When, and Why. |
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WHERE (Part of the Season 17 Five Themes Project) WHERE indicates physical location, whether exact, generalized, or as yet undetermined. Or it indicates a circumstance or context. "Where" can be taken as a question, or as an answer to any number of related questions in a multi-part puzzle—expressing inquiry or determination about a particular or generalized place or circumstance. Where did it happen? Where is it? At, in, or to what situation, position, direction, or circumstances...? The Five Themes exhibits had no defined expectation for type or style of work to be considered or selected. Submissions ranged widely in media and style for every exhibit. The five themes were offered as a playful opportunity to engage in what ultimately results in a puzzle-like game across five exhibits in five galleries. For this exhibit 61 artists submitted 221 works from 26 states and 3 countries, including Canada, Germany, and the United States. Nineteen works by the following 16 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: Ahmet Arslan Peter Baczek Dena Eber Kariann Fuqua Matt Gehring Jason Guynes Rebecca Harrell Karen Hillier Ryan Howerton Travis Neel Mary Nees Sarah Newton Lauren Scavo-Fulk Hanna Sosin Cheryl Patton Wu Stephen Yuen
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Dena Eber
Travis Neel
Lauren Scavo-Fulk
Rebecca Harrelldrawing room
WHEN (Part of the Season 17 Five Themes Project) WHEN is a word that flexes depending on context. Its first known use being over 800 years ago, it continues to suffice as a key element in the English language facilitating understanding of events past, present, or future, certain or undetermined. "When" expresses inquiry or determination about a particular point in time, or a generalized timeframe for some event or action. For this exhibit 24 artists submitted 81 works from 18 states and 2 countries, including Canada and the United States. Six works by the following 5 artists from 4 states and Canada were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.
Drew Etienne Tori Foster Lisa McCleary Parul Naresh Christopher Smith
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Tori Fosterparallel space
WHAT (Part of the Season 17 Five Themes Project) WHAT is a word that has many purposes. Whether pronoun, adverb, adjective, or determiner, it is ubiquitous in the English language, with its first known use also being over 800 years ago. It continues to fluidly, almost invisibly, enable conversation, learning, and action. "What" can be a question or an answer expressing inquiry or determination about the identity, nature, or value of an object or matter. For this exhibit 21 artists submitted 79 works from 14 states. Eight works by the following 6 artists from 6 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.
Jackson Bullock Louise Glass Lynne Miller Jones Steve Novick Norton Pease Caleb Stoltzfus
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Lynne Miller Jonescentral gallery
WHY (Part of the Season 17 Five Themes Project) WHY indicates a reason, cause, grounds, or motive. For this exhibit it may be an inquiry or statement about the particular or generalized reason something may be a certain way, have happened, or may still occur. Why did it happen? Why could it be? Why are things so? For this exhibit 21 artists submitted 78 works from 12 states. Twelve works by the following 6 artists from 5 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Locus Xiaotong Chen Seth Cook Dominic Lippillo Chris Mills Abbi Ruppert Samantha, Vance
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Abbi Ruppertnorth gallery
WHO (Part of the Season 17 Five Themes Project) WHO indicates a specific or general identity, whether individual or collective. "Who" may express inquiry or determination about a particular or generalized person, group, or being. Who did it? Who was there? Those who are affected. For this exhibit 77 artists submitted 277 works from 26 states, Washington D.C., and 3 countries, including Brazil, Canada, and the United States. Ten works by the following 7 artists from 5 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Tamie Beldue Madison Eaglowski Susan Fecho Alexa Frangos Gary Gaffney Jason John Wen-Hang Lin
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Tamie Beldue
Alexa Frangos
Jason John| March 5 - April 2, 2021 |
Limited Admission Opening Preview (TICKETED): Friday, March 5, 6-9pm |
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OHIO, KENTUCKY, & INDIANA In 17 seasons Manifest's projects have included works by artists representing 50 states and 43 countries. Beginning in our tenth season, we launched an ongoing series of exhibits focusing on works by artists in our three-state region. Six 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. For this exhibit 120 artists submitted 495 works from Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. Fourteen works by the following 11 artists from our three-state region (3 from Indiana, 3 from Kentucky, and 5 from Ohio) were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.
Presenting works by: Kevin Gardner Lee Heinen Ron Isaacs Ellen Lyon Jenniffer Omaitz Kathleen Pahl Robert Pulley Emil Robinson Julio Cesar Rodriguez Barbara Triscari McCrystle Wood and Melissa Lusk
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Jenniffer Omaitz
Robert Pulley
McCrystle Wood and Melissa Luskdrawing room
Firstlings + There is a Fly on a Plate In considering proposals submitted for this exhibition period to coincide with the NCECA conference originally scheduled to be held in March of this year in Cincinnati, Manifest's team realized it had a special opportunity to craft a two-person show featuring two bodies of quite diverse yet compellingly contrasted works. We are grateful that Ivan Albreht and Arny Nadler accepted our invitation and have joined forces in this intimate presentation of their ceramic-based works.
Ivan Albreht was born and raised in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia (present Republic of Serbia). He graduated at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 1997, where he also defended magisterial dissertation in 2001. In 2004 he received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (USA). From 2005 to 2008 he has managed the ceramics program at Monmouth University (NJ). Since 2008 he has overseen the ceramics program at University of Miami (FL). Albreht has exhibited internationally since 1997, including Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, and across the United States. His work was featured in many international competitions, and he participated in residency programs in Asia, Europe, and United States. In 2007 he received Special Prize at the 4th World Ceramic Biennial in Korea (CEBIKO). He was awarded Florida Individual Artist Fellowship for the Visual Arts in 2012. His work is included in public and private collections globally. He is an elected member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC/AIC) based in Geneva, Switzerland since 2009. Of his work Albreht states:
Arny Nadler is an associate professor at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis where he chaired undergraduate art from 2013-2018. He earned a BFA from Washington University and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has received a George Sugarman Foundation grant, a Regional Arts Commission Fellowship, a Regional Arts Commission Artist Support Grant, and two Sam Fox School Faculty Creative Research Grants. Nadler has works in the permanent collection of the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art and has exhibited at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, The Clay Center of New Orleans, Newport Beach Civic Center, Evanston Art Center, Turchin Art Center, Sculpture Key West, Western Michigan University, the Catherine Konner Sculpture Park, and the Mitchell Museum, with reviews in Art in America and other publications. Recent exhibitions include the 24th No Dead Artists exhibition at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans and Material Identity at Artworks Center for Contemporary Art in Loveland, Colorado. Nadler moderated the panel Material Poetics at the 2017 International Sculpture Conference in Kansas City, MO and has presented at the Foundations in Art: Theory and Education Conference and the Mid-America College Art Association Conference. He has been a visiting artist at several universities and colleges and is represented by Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis, the site of his most recent solo exhibition titled Firstlings: Sculptures + Works on Paper.
Of his work Nadler states:
This exhibition was assembled from two that were among 162 proposals submitted in consideration for Manifest’s 17th season.
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SUBLIMATION In addition to creating the concurrent two-person show (above) for this exhibition period to coincide with the NCECA conference, Manifest's team embraced the timely opportunity to schedule this potently ritualistic two-room installation by Manami Ishimura. Especially given the fact that the conference itself will now be virtual due to the ongoing pandemic, negating the hundreds of visiting participants we had anticipated sharing our exhibits with, we feel the interactivity and poetic statement offered by Ishimura's work is now perhaps more meaningful than ever.
Manami Ishimura was born in Tokyo, Japan. Ishimura received her BFA degree in sculpture at Tama University in Japan, and graduated with an MFA degree in sculpture and ceramics at Texas A&M Corpus Christi in 2018. Her sculptures, which have been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including recent sculptural drawings at Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, Louisiana; Wichita Falls Museum of Art at Midwestern State University, Texas; Biwako Binnale, Shiga, Japan; and Gallery C at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Ishimura’s continued exploration of ways to celebrate this global society has led her to receive the Vision 2020 grant from Mid-South Sculpture Alliance. Ishimura attended artist residencies including the Windgate artist in residency, Franconia Sculpture Park, and Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. Of her work Ishimura states: Ceramics is a fragile medium- acceptance of the inevitability of damage is necessary for all of us. The ephemeral materials we use have been developed through trial and error, creation and destruction, always shaped by human hands. Viewers will personally experience the natural dynamism of this exhibition by engaging with fragile objects and the ephemeral beauty of life." This exhibition was selected from among 162 proposals submitted in consideration for Manifest’s 17th season. |
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ARTIFACT ― Lao Tzu
Fire hardened dirt has been a part of humanity's long evolution across millennia. Right alongside paintings and drawings on cave walls, shards of ceramic have evidenced the human animal's intellect, sophisticated approach to manipulating its environment, and its ingenuity for survival. But even more, surface quality manipulated with deliberate designs carry a psychological portrait of the maker, and culture, relative to aesthetic and symbolic meaning through mark making. How do artists and craftspeople of today carry such processes forward, or connect them in retrospect to the long lineage that came before? How is work made of ceramic used today to convey meaning, to create valuable experiences for the viewer, to express content or aesthetic moments beyond the raw material itself? How is the medium negotiated between form and function, art and utility? For this exhibit Manifest invited artists to share works that in some way answer these questions, to provide examples of exceptional contemporary ceramic artifacts. For this exhibit 88 artists submitted 281 works from 30 states, Washington D.C., and 3 countries, including Canada, Italy, and the United States. Eighteen works by the following 13 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: Eliza Au Angelique Brickner Bob Bruch Ryan Davis Kelly Devitt Jessika Edgar Martie Geiger-Ho Amanda Gentry Jennifer Holt Molly Johnson Terry Kreuzer Bobbi Meier Jennifer L. Miller
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Bob Bruch
Jennifer Miller
Jennifer Holt| April 16 - May 14, 2021 |
Limited Admission Opening Preview: Friday, April 16, 6-9pm |
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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. In honor of the original spirit of the founding ideals of Manifest, the gallery launched DRAWN almost a decade ago as an 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 now triennial 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 254 artists submitted 924 works from 41 states and 11 countries, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, and the United States. Twenty works by the following 17 artists from 14 states and Canada were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.
Presenting works by: Leora Armstrong Joseph Bennett Herbert Danielson Al Denyer Matthew Durante Hiroshi Hayakawa Melanie Johnson Patti Jordan Charlie Kanwischer Randolph Melick Tiffany Moore Andrew Lincoln Nelson Elena Peteva Kasey Ramirez Shelby Shadwell Kylee Snow Joseph Tigert
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Herbert Danielson
Charlie Kanwischer
Randolph Melickparallel space
METAL A metal (from Greek μέταλλον métallon, "mine, quarry, metal") is a material that, when freshly prepared, polished, or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well. Metals are typically malleable (they can be hammered into thin sheets) or ductile (can be drawn into wires). (from Wikipedia)
Metal is yet another generally ubiquitous category of materials, so pervasive as to be taken for granted on a daily basis. For this show Manifest was interested in exploring how artists elevate, observe, depict, and characterize metal in the art of today, so we invited artists to share their works that are either representations of, feature prominently, or are made primarily of metal. For this exhibit 108 artists submitted 389 works from 30 states and 4 countries, Canada, Denmark, Mexico, and the United States. Fourteen works by the following 10 artists from 9 states, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.
Presenting works by: Susan Byrnes Erin Cunningham Steve Donegan Kurt Dyrhaug Sophie Glenn Jessica Mohl Katie Prock Bonnie Ralston Daniel Randall James Wade
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Erin Cunningham
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COMPANION PAINTING
Neil Callander is an artist and an educator. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Neil earned a BFA from Indiana University (2003) and an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University (2006). In 2005 he received a full fellowship to be a summer resident at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. After graduate school Neil worked as a painter for the artist Jeff Koons in his New York studio. In 2007 Neil and family left New York to pursue careers as professional teachers and artists. This decision has offered a tour of the South with time spent in Louisville KY, Starkville MS and Tuscaloosa AL. Currently Neil and his wife Adrienne are Assistant Professors of Art at the University of Arkansas and live in a household of makers and dogs in Fayetteville AR. Neil's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at Goose Barnacle (Brooklyn NY), Bowling Green State University (OH) and The Kentucky School of Art (Louisville). He is a member of ZEUXIS (an association of still life painters based in NYC). Venues for group exhibitions include Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati OH), The Huntsville Museum of Art (AL), The Mississippi Museum of Art (Jackson), and The New Gallery of Modern Art (Charlotte NC), First Street Gallery (NYC), Washington Art Association (CT), Simon Fraser University (Vancouver BC) among many others. Recent creative endeavors include this solo exhibition at Manifest Gallery and participation in Art Week (July 2021) at the fabled family home of painter Fairfield Porter on Great Spruce Head Island in Maine.
Of his work the artist states:
This exhibition was selected from among 162 proposals submitted in consideration for Manifest’s 17th season. |
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CARDBOARD
It is a ubiquitous material, yet for all practical purposes it is invisible by contrast to the treasures it transports before it is cut, folded, bound, and recycled, or tossed out in the daily trash. Most of us look right past it, or at best realize its potential for basement, attic, or closet storage duty. It would seem only children, and cats, truly appreciate the magical nature of this otherwise mundane material. However, we believe this is not the whole story, and suspect that artists may have a lot to say about it. With this exhibit Manifest invited artists to share their works that are either representations of, feature prominently, or are made primarily of cardboard. For this exhibit 90 artists submitted 284 works from 31 states, Washington D.C., and 2 countries, England and the United States. Thirteen works by the following 8 artists from 7 states, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. Presenting works by: Ana Maria Botero Drew Etienne Dennis Gordon Jackson Martin Garry Noland Jason Schneider Kaitlin West Mark Wiesner
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Drew Etienne
Dennis Gordon
Jackson Martin| May 28 - June 25, 2021 | Limited Admission Opening Preview (GET TICKETS HERE): Friday, May 28, 6-9pm |
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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 seventeenth annual installment of the Rites series, Manifest offers a $500 best of show prize to reward excellence at this early career level, as well as a non-monetary Director's Choice Award. The Rites call for submissions was open to students graduating or expecting to graduate in 2020, 2021, or 2022 (undergraduate juniors, seniors, and those who graduated last year). For this exhibit 66 artists representing 48 academic institutions in 25 states and 2 countries submitted 201 works for consideration. Fifteen works by the following 11 artists from 8 states and 2 countries representing 9 different academic institutions are featured in the 17th annual Rites of Passage exhibit.* Artists are listed with their academic status as of the dates of their entry into this competition. 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: Jenna Conlin Hyunhee Doh Madison Eaglowski Annie Hutchins Chang Wan Jin Benjamin Kaita Colete Martin Masha (Mariia) Morgunova Callie Smith Lila Thomas (AWARDED BEST OF SHOW) Xin Ye
* Due to pandemic-related impacts and requirements affecting artists and availability of works, some works will not be on view in the gallery. All jury-selected works will be featured online in social media features, and linked from this page.
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Madison Eaglowski
(BEST OF SHOW AWARD) Lila Thomas
Xin Yedrawing room
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 gallery 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 seventeenth annual exhibit of works no larger than seven inches in any dimension. For this exhibit 140 artists submitted 540 works from 37 states, including Puerto Rico and Washington D.C., and 7 countries, including Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Russia, South Korea, and the United States. Thirty-four works by the following 20 artists from 15 states and Russia were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.
Presenting works by: Stanislav Azarov Tony Baker Pirjo Berg Jenny Carey Jane Corich Clayton Cusak John Ferry Frederick Fochtman Brandice Guerra Kristy Headley Anya Kotler Carole Kunstadt Matthew Lee Steve Paddack Anthony Pessler Kathleen Piercefield Priscilla, Steele Lynn Szymanski Lawrence Tarpey Thomas Trusty
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Matthew Lee
Priscilla, Steele
Lynn Szymanskiparallel space
ROUGH TRANSLATION
Jiachen Liu is an artist and educator currently living and working in Hangzhou, China. At the beginning of her art career, she studied oil painting for four years in China, after which she attended Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) where she received certification of Post-bacc fine art. In 2016, she was accepted by the Fiber and Materials Study Department of the School of Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). During those two years of study, Jiachen found the bridge between painting and fiber materials. Digital jacquard weaving became a special way of expressing herself. She received her MFA degree from SAIC in 2018, at which time she returned to China and became an art educator. Since 2018 she has been a faculty member of the Fiber Art department of China Academy of Art. In 2020, Jiachen entered into the PhD program of the China Academy of Art (Hangzhou,China) In 2018 Jiachen Liu won the outstanding students awards from the Surface Design Association, and received a visual art fellowship of Lunmin Arts Cultural Foundation. Her artworks have been exhibited internationally in China, the U.S, Canada, Poland, and South Korea.
Of her work the artist states:
This exhibition was deferred from 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic when the artist was in Wuhan, China when the epicenter was locked down. It was one of 6 selected from among 149 solo proposals submitted for consideration for Manifest’s 16th season. |
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MAR 2020/21 Familiar Patterns 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. During this unprecedented year the MAR was shortened to 10 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This solo exhibit features works made by our 2020/21 Artist in Residence, Hannah Zimmerman. This marks the culmination of Hannah's residency at Manifest which officially concludes in June. The exhibit serves as a celebration of her achievements, learning, and adoption into the growing list of Manifest residency alumni.
Hannah Zimmerman is an artist and educator based in Cincinnati, Ohio. She earned her MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BFA and BS in Art Education from Miami University. In the fall of 2020, she began her 10-month artist residency at Manifest. Her work has been shown regionally and nationally and has been featured in publications including Candy Floss Magazine and long con magazine. She has taught visual arts at a public high school since 2015.
Of her work the artist states: The pictorial relationships, which reflect both the past and the present, are laden with time and memory. Each constructed space creates room for confusion and contemplation. Through playful patterns, furniture, and an ever-evolving collection of plants, these paintings engage with internalized expectations of traditional feminine roles as I consider my life in comparison to the women in my family who came before me. This navigation of generational history and individual experience serves as the starting point for an ongoing exploration of identity and the process of settling into one's self. "
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SIR 2020/21 The year-long Manifest Scholar in Residence (SIR) program was begun in 2018 as an extension of the Artist in Residence program which formally launched in 2012. The SIR shares many of the MAR's goals, including to provide artists with an immersive year of practice and study at Manifest Drawing Center, a private work space for a year, mentorship and teaching exposure, along with support in establishing a career direction in the visual arts. During this unprecedented year the SIR and MAR were delayed by the pandemic, and temporarily shortened to ten months. This year also marked a new blend of residency assignments, with two Scholars appointed, one headquartered at the Drawing Center, and the other taking a studio adjacent to the gallery ordinarily designated as a MAR studio. Both artists' residencies remained focused on creative development supported by Drawing Center access and programming. Ordinarily SIR artists conclude their year with a display and public presentation at the Drawing Center. However, circumstances and limitations caused by the pandemic have allowed for Manifest to present the first SIR Showcase exhibit—a two-person show shared between our two Scholars in Residence. This two-person exhibit features works made by our 2020/21 Scholars in Residence, Seth Adam Cook and Ed Erdmann. This marks the culmination of their residency at Manifest which officially concludes in June, and serves as a celebration of their achievements, learning, and adoption into the growing list of Manifest residency alumni.
What I Saw in the Water "'What I Saw in the Water' speaks to the vulnerability and sorrow steeped deep in the muddied waters of the Gulf Coast. Using photographs in conjunction with image transfer, I offer viewers a chance to immerse themselves in a story of suffrage, loss, determination, triumph, and repetition. While the story is rooted in my experiences, universal themes resonate throughout: environmental destruction, ruminations on place and its effects on identity, cultural history, and the importance of remembering. The photos that make up this body of work were taken along the Bayou Teche in south-central Louisiana. They contain landscapes, swamp-scapes, archival imagery, and pictures of loved ones that blur the past, present, and future. Through the process of image transfer, the photographic surface is exploited as though it were wet paint. The resulting grotesque-like texture becomes symbolic of the destruction caused by heavy rainfall and flooding waters, reflecting how the local communities remain at risk as much as the environment. Grief is an important word to remember when thinking of the Gulf Coast, and the suffrage, both past, and present is etched into the culture. While catastrophic events come and go, the damage remains on the sea floor, waiting to resurface"
Seth Adam Cook grew up along the Bayou Teche in south-central Louisiana. His work addresses the issues surrounding the Gulf Coast, highlighting catastrophes from his childhood that affected his community and ecosystem. He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2016 from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and his Master of Fine Arts degree in 2020 from Indiana University, Bloomington. He currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he is part of Manifest's Scholar in Residence program. His work has been displayed internationally and nationally, including South Korea, Louisiana, New York, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Indiana.
Water's Memory of Earth "Time has power. Like Sisyphus, the Earth is bound to cycles. The landscape speaks softly. Time is an arrow. Once it is loosed from the bow it will not stop until it hits the ground. Our human mortality acts in the same way. The landscape speaks honestly. Death is real. We, in varying degrees, have to wade through the mucky banks of mortality. All things need time to grow and become what they are. My work grows and changes through the restriction of control within the seasons. The weather calibrates the work that I make. This work is based in observation. It is often a quiet and personal action. Through walks I find connections to landscape and meditation in the stillness. The repetition and changing nature of seasonal weather guides the choices and materials that I use. Like a prayer, I repeat patterns, forms, and actions."
Ed Erdmann is a United States artist currently based in Cincinnati, Ohio. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin, Stout. Erdmann's work investigates the landscape and its relation to humans' mortality and myth. Through exploration of natural forces Erdmann looks for ways of integrating those forces into his work. Wind, plants, trees, rivers, and soil all are active elements that find their way into Erdmann's paintings and drawings. His work has been shown in solo and group shows locally and regionally in places such as Wisconsin Public Radio, Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Ed Erdmann| July 9 - August 6, 2021 | Limited Admission Special Preview (GET TICKETS HERE): Thursday, July 8, 7-9pm |
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SEMBLANCE
Recognition matters. Throughout art history the ability of the artist to not only capture a likeness but also the character and spirit of the subject has defined whole careers. With this in mind we again offered this call out to artists for works that address the portrait. All manner of interpretations, explorations, and machinations involving the portrait were welcome, including traditional and non-traditional approaches in any media. For this exhibit 124 artists submitted 492 works from 33 states and 5 countries, Canada, England, Israel, Slovakia, and the United States. Thirty-two works by the following 21 artists from 16 states and Canada were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.
Featuring works by: Jeanne Ciravolo Stephanie Cobb Virginia Derryberry Christian Fagerlund Meghan Flynn Susan Grace Elisabeth Hewlett Maria Housley Nate Jeffery Kate Lackman Ellen Lyon Perin Mahler Michael McCaffrey J. Adam McGalliard Jordan Morgan Melanie Nuccio Kate Orr Joan Stolz Julio Suarez Elizabeth Taboada Chris Vena
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Jeanne Ciravolo
Michael McCaffrey
Susan Grace
Chris Venaparallel space
PATTERN
Whether by chance or design, natural or human-made, organic or geometric, a pattern is a motif repeated in such a way as to take on a predictable cumulative visual effect. Visual artists, designers, and craftspeople throughout history have embraced pattern as a device both for its utility and its visual impact. We were curious how this is happening in the art of today, whether directly (works largely about and made by pattern) or indirectly (works featuring pattern as a primary element, image, or form supporting other content). With this in mind we called to artists for works that address or feature pattern as a primary, but not necessarily exclusive, element. For this exhibit 117 artists submitted 479 works from 36 states and 3 countries, Canada, Guatemala, and the United States. Fourteen works by the following 12 artists from 10 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.
Featuring works by: Philis Alvic Whitney Bell Blake Brasher Nick Gadbois Shelley Gilchrist Madison May Zeinab Saab Jaye Schlesinger Werner Sun Suze Woolf Hannah Zimmerman
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Philis Alvic
Hannah Zimmermancentral gallery
CHERISHED Whether it is to protect or care for someone lovingly, to hold something dear, or to keep a hope or ambition in one's mind, the process of cherishing is something all people have experienced. It is a form of basic human common ground. It represents a deeply-seated connection to something 'other', something or someone outside ourselves, or a very special idea—a reflection upon something almost sanctified by reverence or attachment. How do artists and craftspeople of today embody such notions into physical works? How does the assembly of form (whether it be a flat and shape oriented two-dimensional image, or a voluminous object) attain a refinement capable of signifying cherishing? Or, how do artists represent the notion of such deep care, affection, and attachment through imagery? For this exhibit Manifest invited artists to share works that in some way answer these questions. For this exhibit 68 artists submitted 231 works from 20 states and 3 countries, Israel, Mexico, and the United States. Eight works by the following 6 artists from 6 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.
Featuring works by: Hannah Grilliot Gina Hartmann Katie Hudnall Jin Lee Abbi Ruppert Man Zhu
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Man Zhunorth gallery
MASTER PIECES 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. This fifteenth installment of the Master Pieces project continues to reveal the intensity and professionalism of students working towards their terminal academic degree in the field of visual arts. 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. Often the most exceptional work comes out of graduate students' immersion in their culture of study and intellectual pursuit. Manifest’s goal, therefore, has been to select and document works that in the truest sense of the word are contemporary masterpieces—works that represent the standard of quality that the artist is expected to maintain throughout his or her professional career as a Master. The exhibit catalogs for Master Pieces, and now the award-winning Manifest Exhibition Annual, will serve as a visual documentation of these artists’ own benchmarks for years to come. For this 15th consecutive competition for the Master Pieces exhibit 82 artists representing 54 different academic graduate programs in 29 states and 3 countries submitted 256 works for consideration by Manifest's rigorous jury process. Thirteen works by the following 9 artists from 6 states and Canada, representing 9 different academic programs, were selected for presentation in the gallery and Manifest Exhibition Annual publication for season 17.
Featuring works by: Sarah Barnett Aaron Berg Blake Brasher Liliana Guzman Jarrod Jackson Matt Meserve Alex Thompson Ileana Tolibia Erin Wohletz
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Ileana Tolibia| August 13 - Sept. 10, 2021 (SEASON 17 FINALÉ) |
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CUT
Manifest offered this call to artists for works that address or feature cutting as a primary and dominant, but not necessarily exclusive, method of creation. All manner of interpretations and explorations involving the concept or examples of cutting were welcome, including traditional and non-traditional approaches in any media. For this exhibit 92 artists submitted 352 works from 31 states and 2 countries, Costa Rica and the United States. Eighteen works by the following 15 artists from 13 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.
Featuring works by: Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura Dustyn Bork Diana Corvelle Dennis Gordon Hanna Kozlowski Madeline Mace Dereck Mangus Daniel Martinez Dorothy McGuinness Andrea Myers Stefan Petranek Terry Rathje Adrian Rhodes Jill Stoll Kate Walker
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Stefan Petranek
Dennis Gordon
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13th Annual NUDE
Manifest exhibits many kinds of works, from more conceptual and experimental art to the traditional. In fact we think it's important to have such a range in our repertoire. It is something that Manifest is known for. Every year our annual projects allow us to track how artists around the world address a consistent theme, subject, or media over time, or allow us to document the state of art in a particular strata of professional creative activity, and to study and preserve our findings in a meaningful way through our exhibit publications and website. 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 (and pre-history) the representation of the human form has been charged with tremendous energy. 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, political, aggressive, and so on). We intend for Manifest's ongoing annual NUDE project, now in its 13th year, to explore how our collective body is used today in art to achieve these goals and more. This year we are happy to be presenting Manifest's 13th annual NUDE, an international competitive exhibit exploring the uncovered human form in current art.For this exhibit 119 artists submitted 475 works from 33 states and 6 countries, Canada, England, India, Ireland, Malaysia, and the United States. Nineteen works by the following 16 artists from 10 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.
Featuring works by: Kevin Bacher Rachel Britton Donovan Entrekin Lalana Fedorschak Tracy Frein M. Tobias Hall Christine Huskisson Michael Kelly-DeWitt Ellen Lyon Randolph Melick Lance Pressl Reagan Profit Hannah Ramage Stesha VanWye Sophia Weisensel Hope Wurmfeld
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Hope Wurmfeld
Reagan Profit
Randolph Melickcentral gallery
Scott Ramming and Colby Sanford In considering proposals submitted for this exhibition period Manifest's team realized it had a special opportunity to craft another rare two-person show featuring two bodies of compatible yet highly unique works. We are grateful that Scott Ramming and Colby Sanford accepted our invitation and have joined forces in this intimate presentation of their paintings and drawings.
Scott Ramming was born in Cincinnati, OH and grew up in Nashville, TN. He received his BFA in Painting and Drawing from Middle Tennessee State University. He has exhibited at Cincinnati Art Galleries, OH; Bowery Gallery, NY; Prince Street Gallery, NY; Manifest Gallery, OH, and ACS Gallery, IL. He has taught at Mt. Gretna School of Art and Manifest Drawing Center. His work has been featured in Cornwall Contemporary Art (COCOA). Ramming lives and paints in Cincinnati. Of his work Ramming states: RECENT PAINTINGS At the same time, I was developing a working method that diverged from strict observation. I began combining photographic reference and life studies into an imaginative landscape that became the bather paintings. This work has been an ideal vehicle to further explore the expressive capabilities of paint."
Colby A. Sanford is a figurative realist painter with a heart for finding poetry in the prosaic. Growing up in an unconventional home he was encouraged to paint on the walls of his bedroom and later lived in a yurt. He has a BFA degree in Studio Art from Brigham Young University. His most precious moments are spent at home with his wife and two daughters, often baking oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Working in a restricted acrylic paint palette, Sanford is able to highlight beauty in the mundane. Many works are paired with short-form poetry that serves to further parse extraordinaries from the commonplace of everyday life. Of his work Sanford states: HOLY DUST
This exhibition was assembled from two that were among 162 proposals submitted in consideration for Manifest’s 17th season.
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BLOOM At one time the world of living things was classified into two simple groups, plants and animals. Botany concerned itself with the study of plants. We are linked to these, our earthly cousins, in so many ways. As a planetary phenomenon we take for granted that to our yin the plants provide the yang. We breathe in oxygen and out carbon dioxide, they absorb carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. Clearly an elegant arrangement was agreed upon by the forces of the Universe to arrive at such a symbiosis. Whether it be the form of organic plant life, or the concept of its functionality, the implications of its shared existence with humanity, or its clever ability to convert sunlight into food, plant life is as fascinating as it is beautiful. In the context of contemporary society it is interesting to consider what this can mean in the hands of artists. To close its 17th exhibit season Manifest revisits the theme the gallery first presented with Botanical in spring of 2012, and again with Secret Garden in 2016, and Arboreal in 2017. We once again invited artists to submit works which explore the theme of the vigor of nature, and plant life in particular. These were encouraged to be works that could range from the quite straightforward and literal, to the abstract or conceptual, or in other ways surprising or inventive, narrative, symbolic, or formal. For this exhibit 141 artists submitted 551 works from 35 states and 4 countries, Canada, England, Germany, and the United States. Nineteen works by the following 16 artists from 10 states and Canada were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.
Featuring works by: David Baird Curtis Bartone Katlyn Brumfield Tiffany Budzisz Melissa Gwyn Bettina Harvey Ann Harwell Anthony Huang Joan Lurie Heather V McLeod Stephanie Rosendorf Jennifer Scheuer Krista Schoening Kristin Sorrentino Nathan Sullivan Mark Van Buskirk
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——— END OF SEASON 17 ——— THANK YOU!
Josephine S. Russell
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