Jane Manus
Jane Manus
Masterworks by Jane Manus Some time ago, during the first Art Basel/Miami, I became aware of the sophisticated sculpture of Jane Manus. In 2007, as Director of Visual Arts at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, I commissioned Jane to create a dynamic little work titled “Box Trot,” which seemed to dance across it’s pedestal. Jane Manus masterfully creates sleek metal sculpture suggesting movement and often with a playful and witty visual commentary. The purity of form, confident manipulation of material and beautifully finished colorful surface beckon the viewer to engage in a wonderful visual experience. Jane Manus creates innovative works that fit perfectly into the tradition of American sculpture as she explores the endless possibilities of form. Her credits are many and her works are to be found in distinguished public and private collections. T h o mas W . L o lla r
Artist, Curator, Professor New York
Think Big, 2011 painted welded aluminum 198 x 48 x 60 in 503 x 122 x 152 cm 3
Jane Manus: Constructing Space Jane Manus, who grew up and now lives in Florida, studied at the Art Institute of Boston, where she became fascinated with making welded metal sculpture. Manus works in the traditions of Russian Constructionism, a movement whose aesthetic of constructed sculpture she shares in her quest to create new spaces with abstract yet concrete, usually asymmetric, form. She cites as her influences, in fact, “the Constructivists, Mondrian, Mark di Suvero, David Smith, Louise Nevelson, Louise Bourgeois and Beverly Pepper,” all artists who also sought new spatial depth, height, and breadth. Propelled by this creative impulse during the past four decades, she continues to investigate the nature and effect of tensions between the artfully connected plane geometry of triangle, square, and rectangle, so conjoined as to conjure up a complex and prismatically shifting array of implicit, transparent spaces and paradoxically insubstantial solid forms. “Vacant” space delineated by a triangle becomes, from another point of view, rectangular and even square. The viewer, therefore, assumes the role of an active, life-giving participant in the ever-shifting construction of spaces that combine the clarity and logic imparted by pure forms with the wonder and mystery of their dissolution and reformation. By way of visual cues, mental nudges to a would-be passive viewer to become an active circumambulator, the works, though balanced and definite, always contain an element of perceptual irregularity; herein lies the thoughtfulness and playfulness that lie at the core of Manus’s work. A metal line emphatically appears only to escape; a resting cube forms then teeters; or a triangle, at one instant supports, then at another collapses. Jane Manus’s materials, though concrete and heavy in themselves, become the vehicle for an art of sprightly wit and intellectual gymnastics that revels in its inner contradictions and gradually revealed permutations. Manus does not hide the hardware required to make her works; rather, she delights in the nuts and bolts of her unabashedly constructed art. She gives her aluminum pieces a reflective patina or paints them in uninhibited colors: red, blue, yellow, black, or white. The exuberant finishes and the unconcealed stratagems by which Manus fashions her pieces encourage the viewer to see the sculpture in linear terms, that is, as cradles of firm, rational lines, but ironically they also precipitate movement, and thereby, the perception of interpenetrating, insubstantial spaces.
Manus’s materials also reflect a duality between intent and realization. Emphatically non-organic, her works are bolted and locked into place, literally frozen into position; yet their surfaces make them aggressive and animated. Eschewing the blues and greens, brown and tans, of earth and sky, water and foliage, they insist on their own transcendence. All angles and planes, diagonals and orthogonals, they abjure the softening curve and the eliding arc that suggest organic form, human and terrestrial. Manus’s sculptures, if not rooted to the ground, are fixed to it, placed there by a clever hand. They thrust themselves into the air and carve out a piece of the space that we inhabit. Each is an essay in gravity and movement, substance and rhythm, with some elements slicing downwards, others gliding across the horizon, and still others surging toward the heavens. Perhaps because of the industrial materials, the flat, enamel-like paint, and the syncopated, robotic movements of their shapes, Manus’s works are somehow at odds with their setting. Nevertheless, they are meant to be seen in the ever-changing conditions of the out of doors. At once static and activated by light, they measure the play of shadow and the passage of time on their boldly colored, reflective surfaces. The viewer is a participant, fabricator, and thus a collaborator. In gazing, we penetrate space within space, and shape form within form, though the object of that refracted vision is riveted to the earth like a post-industrial creature whose substance is mind as much as matter. The tension between the rigidity and unpredictable, mutable transfigurations of each work is ultimately a metaphor about the human condition and humanity’s spiritual aspirations. Behind its mute abstractions, Manus’s art speaks of the illusory nature of what we see and what we know: of certainty and mystery. W illiam U nde r w o o d E iland
Director, Georgia Museum of Art
This essay, now adapted and updated to reflect Jane Manus’s recent work, first appeared in “Jane Manus, Sculptor” (exh. brochure, April 14-August 16, 1996, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia)
Though non-representational, Manus’s sculptures rely on easily apparent, recognizable, and symbolic shapes, such as an arrow or an X. The geometrical components of square, circle, and triangle are set into physical space; yet, the addition of vertical, horizontal, or diagonal and their angled placement activates and energizes them. As the viewer moves around them, nearer to them, or further away from them, they form and reform figures that are abstract yet meaningful. Line only defines a shape in relations to the viewer, and the viewer, thus implicated, is enmeshed into the visual fabric of Manus’s art. Sharp lines assume volume as Manus creates an architectural arrangement of boundaries in the air. Unwittingly, the viewer becomes the fabricator of a planar design pregnant with volumetric and symbolic suggestion. 4
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The Works 2 010 – 2 012
Screams Big, 2011 painted welded aluminum 147 x 97 x 32 ½ in 373 x 246 x 83 cm
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Zaney, 2012 painted welded aluminum 13 x 24 x 12 in 33 x 61 x 31 cm
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Thor, 2010 painted welded aluminum 32 x 20 x 18 in 81 x 51 x 46 cm
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Tilt un Tilt, 2010 painted welded aluminum 72 x 36 x 42 in 183 x 91 x 107 cm Private Collection, NY
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Slide, 2011 polished welded aluminum 6 x 11 x 3 in 15 x 28 x 8 cm Sunny, 2012 painted welded aluminum 29 ½ x 10 x 6 in 75 x 25 x 15 cm Black X, 2012 painted welded aluminum 18 x 24 x 9 in 46 x 61 x 23 cm
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Black + Brushed, 2010 brushed and painted welded aluminum 59 x 35 x 4 in, each 150 x 89 x 10 cm, each
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Last Letter, 2011 painted welded aluminum 72 x 48 x 144 in 183 x 122 x 366 cm
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Blocks, 2012 painted welded aluminum 25 x15 x10 in 64 x 38 x 25 cm King, 2012 painted welded aluminum 29 ½ x 10 x 6 in 75 x 25 x 15 cm
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Red, 2010 painted welded aluminum 43 x 47 x 28 in 109 x 119 x 71 cm
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Sunrise, 2011 painted welded aluminum 73 x 34 x 32 in 185 x 86 x 81 cm
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Guitar, 2011 brushed welded aluminum 36 x 64 x 4 in 91 x 163 x 10 cm
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White Box, 2011 painted welded aluminum 120 x 42 x 84 in 305 x 107 x 213 cm
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The Chair, 2011 painted welded aluminum and leather 30 x 18 x 17 in 76 x 46 x 43 cm Edition of 4 + 2AP
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Thanks For The Flowers, 2011 painted welded aluminum 45 x 24 x 11 in 114 x 61 x 28 cm Private Collection, West Hartford, CT Tracy, 2011 painted welded aluminum 48 x 66 x 24 in 122 x 168 x 61 cm
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Yawn, 2010 painted welded aluminum 9 ½ x 11 x 4 in 24 x 28 x 10 cm Box-Inc., 2010` painted welded aluminum 32 x 22 x 3 ½ in 81 x 56 x 9 cm Junior, 2012 painted welded aluminum 6 x 12 x14 in 15 x 31 x 36 cm
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Room with a View, 2012 painted welded aluminum 27 ½ x 6 x 6 in 24 x 71 x 10 cm
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Guiding Wall, 2011 painted welded aluminum 82 x 27 x 4 in 208 x 69 x 10 cm Arielle, 2012 painted welded aluminum 66 ½ x 15 x 3 ½ in 169 x 38 x 9 cm
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Blue Man Standing, 2010 painted welded aluminum 35 ½ x 14 x 12 in 90 x 36 x 31 cm
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Bailout, 2011 painted welded aluminum 13 x 65 x 4 in 33 x 165 x 10 cm Double C, 2011 painted welded aluminum 46 x 65 x 3 in 117 x 165 x 8 cm
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Danielle, 2011 painted welded aluminum 72 x 78 x 42 in 183 x 198 x 107 cm
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On a Clear Day, 2011 painted welded aluminum 20 x 18 ½ x 10 in 51 x 47 x 25 cm Maquette for Zaney, 2011 welded painted aluminum 6 ½ x 12 x 6 in 17 x 31 x 15 cm
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The Works 2000 – 2009
7027, 2001 painted welded aluminum 168 x 120 x 72 in 427 x 305 x 183 cm Private Collection, Boca Raton, FL
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440, 2000 painted welded aluminum 83 x 56 x 51 in 211 x 142 x 130 cm Private Collection, Baltimore, MD
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98 In The Shade, 2009 painted welded aluminum 78 x 60 x 112 in 198 x 152 x 285 cm Say Ah, 2007 painted welded aluminum 8 ½ x 6 x 5 in 22 x 15 x 13 cm Edition of 3 + 1 AP
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Blue, 2009 painted welded aluminum 16 x 35 x 6 in 41 x 92 x 36 cm
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Caution, 2009 painted welded aluminum 46 x 34 x 5 in 117 x 86 x 13 cm Private Collection, Toronto, Canada
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Gone Fishing, 2009 painted welded aluminum 164 x 136 x 88 in 417 x 345 x 224 cm Private Collection, Longboat Key, FL
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Untitled, 2001 painted welded aluminum 47 x 174 x 10 in 119 x 442 x 25 cm Private Collection Baltimore, MD Wall Street, 1997 brushed welded aluminum 102 x 196 x 24 in 259 x 498 x 61 cm Private Collection Baltimore, MD
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Legs, 2009 brushed aluminum 18 x 23 x 8 in 46 x 58 x 20 cm Duet, 2007 painted welded aluminum 8 ½ x 13 x 3 in 22 x 33 x 8 cm Edition of 4
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Red Hot, 2009 painted welded aluminum 85 x 26 x 6 in 216 x 66 x 15 cm Almost Like Dancing, 2005 painted welded aluminum 37 x 24 x 3 in 94 x 61 x 8 cm Private collection, New York, NY
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Rob’s House, 2009 painted welded aluminum 120 x 138 x 84 in 305 x 351 x 213 cm Private Collection, Boca Raton, FL
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Homage to Al, 2008 painted welded aluminum 148 x 40 x 40 in 376 x 102 x 102 cm Collection of The Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
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Spellbound, 2008 painted welded aluminum 72 x 72 x 34 in 183 x 183 x 86 cm
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Box Trot, 2007 brushed welded aluminum 13 x 11 x 4 in 33 x 30 x 10 cm Edition of 27 + 9 AP Lincoln Center List Collection, New York, NY
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Juggler, 2008 painted welded aluminum 64 x 35 ½ x 26 in 163 x 90 x 66 cm Private Collection, Boca Raton, FL
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Time Out, 2008 painted welded aluminum 83 x 60 x 60 in 211 x 152 x 152 cm
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Black Licorice, 2006 painted welded aluminum 84 x 24 x 42 in 213 x 61 x 107 cm Collection of Syracuse University Art Museum, Syracuse, NY
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Desk, 2009 brushed aluminum and glass 29 x 48 x 20 in 74 x 122 x 51 cm Console, 2006 brushed welded aluminum and glass 36 x 44 x 12 in 91 x 112 x 31 cm Jane’s Bench, 2000 brushed welded aluminum and wood 16 x 44 x 14 in 41 x 112 x 36 cm
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Extended, 2005 painted welded aluminum 72 x 136 x 48 in 183 x 345 x 122 cm
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Walk The Line, 2005 brushed welded aluminum 74 x 10 x 58 in 188 x 25 x 147 cm
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Sasha Blonde, 2004 painted welded aluminum 64 x 35 ½ x 26 in 163 x 90 x 66 cm
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Summer In The City, 2004 painted welded aluminum 87 x 34 ½ x 42 in 221 x 88 x 107 cm Private Collection, Atlanta, GA
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Inside Out, 2003 brushed welded aluminum and paint 48 x 25 x 30 in 122 x 64 x 76 cm Private Collection, Baltimore, MD
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Rear Window, 2002 painted welded aluminum 96 x 127 x 60 in 244 x 323 x 152 cm Private Collection, Baltimore, MD
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Notorius, 2003 painted welded aluminum 114 x 105 x 62 in 290 x 267 x 158 cm
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Mellow, 2001 painted welded aluminum 78 x 38 x 14 in 198 x 97 x 36 cm Private Collection, San Francisco, CA Higher Form, 2001 painted welded aluminum 73 x 40 x 20 in 185 x 102 x 51 cm
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Before The Wedding, 2000 painted welded aluminum 65 x 36 x 6 in 165 x 91 x 10 cm Private Collection Big City, 2000 painted welded aluminum 40 x 22 x 16 in 102 x 56 x 41 cm
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On The Rocks, 2000 painted welded aluminum 81 x 29 x 36 in 206 x 74 x 91 cm Private Collection, Baltimore, MD Rooster, 2000 78 x 32 x 28 in 198 x 81 x 71 cm Cleveland Clinic Collection, Cleveland, OH
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The Works 19 91 – 19 9 9
Ann, 1999 welded bronze 8 x 11 x 8 in 20 x 28 x 20 cm Edition of 3 Private Collection
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Just One Drink, 1999 9 x12 x 3 ½ in 23 x 31 x 9 cm Sun Trust Building, Winter Park, FL Collection of Cornell of Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL
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Allure, 1999 painted welded aluminum 114 x 5 x 86 ½ in 290 x 13 x 220 cm Sun Trust Building, Winter Park, FL Collection of Cornell of Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL
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Stress I, 1991 brushed welded aluminum 124 x 60 x 32 in 315 x 152 x 81 cm Private Collection, Jupiter, FL
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Rene’s Chair, 1995 painted welded aluminum 72 x 4 x 24 in 183 x 10 x 61 cm Collection of Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
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End of the Day, 1999 painted welded aluminum 86 x 53 x 42 in 218 x 135 x 107 cm Vero Beach Museum, Vero, FL
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Franco, 1999 painted welded aluminum 20 x 57 x 8 in 51 x 145 x 20 cm Private Collection, Baltimore, MD Trailer Man, 1998 painted welded aluminum 26 x 26 x 26 in 66 x 66 x 66 cm
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Wall Street, 1997 brushed welded aluminum 102 x 196 x 24 in 259 x 498 x 61 cm Private Collection Baltimore, MD
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No Accent IV, 1996 brushed welded aluminum 108 x 186 x 96 in 274 x 472 x 244 cm Collection of Flint Museum of Art, Flint, MI
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Matte Black II, 1994 painted welded aluminum 46 x 135 x 6 in 117 x 342 x 15 cm Collection of the Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
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White A, 1993 painted welded aluminum 111 x 80 x 60 in 282 x 203 x 152 cm Collection of the City of Winter Park, FL
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So Inclined, 1991 welded bronze 114 x 60 x 48 in 290 x 152 x 122 cm Collection of American Bankers Insurance, Miami, FL
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Stress III, 1991 painted welded aluminum 73 x 46 x 48 in 185 x 117 x 122 cm Private Collection, Palm Beach, FL
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The Works 19 8 4 – 19 8 9
Broken Open, 1986 painted welded aluminum 90 x 90 x 66 in 229 x 229 x 168 cm Collection of Art in Public Places, Delray Beach, FL
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Steps, 1987 painted welded aluminum 111 x 84 x 54 in 282 x 213 x 137 cm Collection of Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
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Condor, 1989 painted welded aluminum 160 x 160 x 40 in 406 x 406 x 102 cm Private Collection, Jacksonville, FL
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Red Light, 1985 painted welded aluminum 124 x 168 x 76 in 315 x 427 x 193 cm Collection of The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Gone Sailing, 1985 painted welded aluminum 84 x 84 x 60 in 213 x 213 x 152 cm Collection of Palm Beach State College, Lake Worth, FL
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Walkabout II, 1985 painted welded aluminum 168 x 144 x 96 in 427 x 366 x 244 cm Collection of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart + Shipley, West Palm Beach, FL
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Girls Night Out, 1984 painted welded aluminum 92 x 73 x 72 in 244 x 185 x 183 cm Collection of Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL
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The Works 19 7 2 – 19 7 9
Delta One, 1979 welded Corten steel 120 x 120 x 120 in 305 x 305 x 305 cm Collection of Mississippi Museum, Jackson, MS
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Untitled, 1977 welded steel 60 x 54 x 66 in 152 x 137 x 168 cm Collection of Wichita Museum, Wichita, KS Untitled, 1977 welded steel 60 x 16 x 40 in 152 x 41 x 102 cm Collection of Wichita Museum, Wichita, KS
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Biography 1951
Born in New York, NY
1973
Rollins College, Winter Park, FL BFA, The Art Institute of Boston, MA
Currently lives and works in West Palm Beach, FL
S e l e c t e d S o lo E x h i b i t i o n s 2012
Evolution, De Buck Gallery, New York
2011
Constructive Angles, Contessa Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2010
Recent Sculpture, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2009
Function/Form, Berry-Hill Gallery, New York Lincoln Center Collects, Ann Norton Sculpture Garden, West Palm Beach, FL Lincoln Center Collects, Karen Lynne Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2008
Synapse, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
2007
Space, WhiteSpace Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL Geometry, Larsen Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Jane Manus, Galleria Ristori, Albenga, Italy
2006
Functional Sculpture, Galerie Francoise et E.S.F., Baltimore, MD Extension 2006, Haskell Gallery, Jacksonville International Airport, FL
2005
Extension, 511 Gallery, New York Modern Minimal, Modern Abstract, Wallace Fine Art, Longboat Key, FL
2004
City Works, Donna Tribby Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2003
Jane Manus Sculpture, Art+ Gallery, Coral Gables, FL Jane Manus, The Cultural Exchange Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Jane Manus New Work, Waddington & Tribby Fine Art, Boca Raton, FL
2002
Jane Manus “Framing Spaces,” Ann Norton Sculpture Garden, West Palm Beach, FL Jane Manus, Heriard Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA Only Connect, Andrea Pronto Arte Contemporanea, Crespano, Italy
2001
Jane Manus & Bruce Helander, Cima Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL Jane Manus of Form and Color, Coral Springs Museum, Coral Springs, FL 15th Anniversary Celebration, Corbino Galleries, Longboat Key, FL
2000
Jane Manus, Arts on Douglas, New Smyrna Beach, FL “Tete a Tete” Rotraut & Jane Manus, Galerie ise et E.S.F., Lutherville, MD Jane Manus Sculpture, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1999
A Search for Serenity, Corbino Gallery, Longboat Key, FL
1998
Summer Solstice Show, Galerie Francoise et E.S.F, Lutherville, MD
1997
Red, White, and Blue, Sculpture Center at Esperante, West Palm Beach, FL Jane Manus “Sculpture,” Ken Elias Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
1996
Art in Public Places Exhibition, Commune di Bagno a Ripoli, Florence Jane Manus Sculptor, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia Jane Manus Sculptor, Barbara Scott Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
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2003
Mutamentum - USA Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ The Cultural Exchange Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Mutamentum, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL Continuing Group Exhibition, Arts on Douglas, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2002
Miniatures Exhibition 2002, Arts on Douglas, New Smyrna Beach, FL A Little Art, Waddington & Tribby Fine Art, Boca Raton, FL Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, FL Continuing Group Exhibition, Arts on Douglas, New Smyrna Beach, FL Mutamentum – Italy, Via Larga, Florence; Chiostri della Basilica di Santa Maria, Impruneta; Centro storico e negazi, San Casciano; La Barbagianna: una casa par l’Arte Contemporanea, Italy Mutamentum – Germany, Kunstaktionen Museum, Fouled; Frankfurt, Germany
2001
Miniatures Exhibition 2001, Arts on Douglas, New Smyrna Beach, FL La via dell’arte, Arte Contemporanea al Museo “Manlio Trucco,” Albisola, Italy Tete-a-Tete, Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, FL Jane Manus & Franco Scuderi, “il colore che awolge,” Arte Moderna Contemporanea, Albenga, Italy Jane Manus & Franco Scuderi, “il colore che awolge,” La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy Seating: The Artist’s Perspective, The Elliot Museum, Stuart, FL
2000
Monochromatic, Arts on Douglas, New Smyrna Beach, FL Sculpture Garden, Corbino Gallery, Long Boat Key, FL
1999
Winter Group Show, Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Thomas Lollar and Jane Manus: Relief Work, Ceramic Maps, Modern Sculpture, NYIT School of Architecture & Design, New York
Summer Arts, Arts on Douglas, New Smyrna Beach, FL Percosi dell’Anima, Ken Elias Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL Ceramics in Toscany, under the auspices of the Municipality of Sesto Fiorentino and Regione Toscana, travelling exhibition in Italy, Germany and United States
1998
Berry-Hill Gallery, New York Fay Gold Presents “Onward,” Atlanta, GA Focus Exhibition, Larsen Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Summer ’10, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Imposing Objects, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL Percosi dell’Anima, Greve, Italy; Hirschberg, Germany Gallery Artists, Corbino Gallery, Long Boat Key, FL Jane Manus and Jean Claude Rigaud, Long Boat Key Art Center, Long Boat Key, FL
1997
It’s the end of an era, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA Focus, Larsen Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Studio Furniture, Palm Beach 3, West Palm Beach, FL A Sculpture Show, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD Group Show, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA Lincoln Center List Collection, The Sagamore Hotel, Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL
VI Biennale de Sculpture de Monte-Carlo, Monaco Artisti in Viaggio 1997, Ann Norton Sculpture Garden, West Palm Beach, FL Florida-Wyoming Tarot Project, Florida and Wyoming Sculpture-Jane Manus and James Rosburg, The Schmidt Center Gallery – Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL Contemporary Visions, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL
1996
Bright Lights, Barbara Scott Gallery, Miami Beach, FL Summer Spectacular, Part One, Barbara Scott Gallery, Miami Beach, FL Provencial Government Exhibition, Via Larga, Florence, Italy The Abstract Image: Painting, Sculpture, Graphics from the Collection of the Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL Configuration: Works in Relief, Lipworth International Fine Arts, Boca Raton, FL Materials: Steel, Wood, Glass, Bricks, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, FL
1994
Jane Manus Sculptor, Wahlstrom Sculpture Garden, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL
1992
Peter Reginato & Jane Manus, “Two Visions of Abstract Constructive Sculpture,” Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1991
Jane Manus “73,” Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
1990
Jane Manus, Ann Norton Sculpture Garden, West Palm Beach, FL
1989
Jane Manus, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
1988
Jane Manus, Palm Beach Community College, West Palm Beach, FL
1987
Jane Manus Sculptures, Ann Norton Sculpture Garden, West Palm Beach, FL
1985
Outdoor Sculpture, Ann Norton Sculpture Garden, West Palm Beach, FL
1984
Jane Manus, Center for Contemporary Art, West Palm Beach, FL Jane Manus, Exposures Gallery, Dallas, TX
1981
Jane Manus, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto
1978
New Work – Jane Manus, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto
1977
Sculptures, Gallery Cassel, Palm Beach, FL
1976
Jane Manus, Gallery Cassel, Palm Beach, FL
Selected Group Exhibitions 2012
2010
2009
2008
Focus, Larsen Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2007
Focus, Larsen Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Mid Century – Modern, Wallace Fine Art, Long Boat Key, FL Our Artists, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA The Lincoln Center List Collection, The Sagamore Hotel, Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL
2006
From Private Walls, Lighthouse Center for the Arts, Tequesta, FL Larsen Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1995
Continuing Group Exhibition, Donna Tribby Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL Continuing Group Exhibition, Arts on Douglas, New Smyrna Beach, FL
A Group for the Summer, Joel Kessler Fine Arts, Miami Beach, FL From Start to Finish, The Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL
1993
Local Large Scale Works, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, FL Margulies Taplin Gallery Group Show, Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2005 2004
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Exhibition of Art and Design, Art+ Gallery, Coral Gables, FL Peter Wallace Fine Arts, Long Boat Key, FL Donna Tribby Fine Art Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
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1992
Dorothy Gillespie and Jane Manus, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL A Celebration of American Art, Cornell Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL Art on Brickell, Downtown Development & Brickell Avenue Associates, Miami, FL Annual South Florida Artists’ Invitational, Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL Artists of South Florida, Margulies Taplin Gallery, Miami, FL Group Show Gallery Artists, Margulies Taplin Gallery, Miami, FL
1991
Outdoor Sculpture, Greene Gallery, Bay Harbor Island, FL
1990
Greene Gallery Exhibition, Greene Gallery, Bay Harbor Island, FL The Start of Something Big, Eastbourne Clark Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
1989
Introductions and Previews, Kornbluth Gallery, Fairlawn, NJ Greene Gallery Selects, Greene Gallery, Coral Gables, FL Professional Artists’ Committee, Palm Beach Council of the Arts, Martinique II, Singer Island, FL
1988
Artists at Home, Palm Beach County Council of the Arts, Habitat Center, West Palm Beach, FL Hortt Show, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL 37, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL Selected Florida Artists, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL The Artist as a Business Person, Northwood Institute, West Palm Beach, FL Geometric Abstractions, Greene Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
1987
Mitzi Newhouse Juried Exhibition, Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL South Florida Sculptors 75th Diamond Jubilee, West Palm Beach, FL
1986
Opening Exhibition, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL FL: Direction I, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL Highlights of the Seasons, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL Art in Public Places, West Palm Beach, FL
1985
New York – New York, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL Hearts by Artists, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL Art in Public Places, Government Center, West Palm Beach, FL Hyattfest, West Palm Beach, FL Junior League Designer Show House, Miami, FL Opus House XI, Boca West, Boca Raton, FL
1984
New Emerging Artists, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1978
Group Show, Tower Gallery, Southampton, NY
1976
Group Show, Womanart Gallery, New York
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PUBLIC COLLECTION S Cleveland Clinic Collection, Cleveland, OH Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL The Lincoln Center/List Collection, New York White Space, West Palm Beach, FL Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA The Sagamore Collection, Miami Beach, FL Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL City of Delray Beach, FL American Bankers Insurance, Miami, FL Boca Raton Museum, Boca Raton, FL Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL Mississippi Museum, Jackson, MS Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY The Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, CA University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY McDonald Stewart Art Center, Guelph, ON Doctor’s Hospital of Hyde Park, Chicago, IL Republic Security Bank, West Palm Beach, FL David S. Brown & Company, Baltimore, MD Moquay Family Collection, Scottsdale, AZ Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL Byers Engineering Collection, Atlanta, GA Aspen Industrial, Farmington Hills, MI Snow Becker Krauss, New York, NY Artes Magnus Europe, Geneva, Switzerland Tishman Speyer Collection, New York, NY James Berry-Hill, Quogue, NY Fay Gold, Atlanta, GA Corbino Collection, Long Boat Key, FL Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, NY City of Winter Park, Winter Park, FL
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Š De Buck Gallery 2012 De Buck Gallery 511 W 25th Street , Suite 502 New York, NY 10001 T. +1 212 255 5735 E. info@debuckgallery.com www.debuckgallery.com Lay-out and typesetting Stipontwerpt, Antwerp, Belgium www.stipontwerpt.be Printer Geers Offset, Ghent, Belgium www.geers-offset.be ISBN 978-0-9851748-9-7 Cover artwork Benchmark, 2007 painted welded aluminum 120 x 105 x 60 in 305 x 267 x 152 cm Sagamore Collection, Miami Beach, FL Photo Credits Cover photograph courtesy of Diamond Images P87 photograph courtesy of Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, NY P164 photograph courtesy of Central Image Agency Fusedog Media Steven Michael King Jacek Gancarz Jean-Christophe Michel Essay Thomas W. Lollar William Underwood Eiland Special thanks to Blalock Fabrication, West Palm Beach, FL Tracy Edling