FREE public reception | Snacks and drinks

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About the Artist

Born in 1948 in Austin, Texas, Manes received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas in 1983 and went on to study at Hunter College in New York City. His works have been exhibited in one-person exhibitions across Texas, California, and New York, as well as internationally throughout Italy, France, Monaco, and Germany and was included in the 2016 exhibition Painting After Postmodernism in Brussels, Belgium. Manes’ work can be found in the permanent collections of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; The Hyde Collection, Glenn Falls, New York: the Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; the Tucson Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts Houston; the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont; and in the private collections of Yoko Ono and Emeril Lagasse. His monumental work, The Entry of Christ into Brussels, is one view at the Centro de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Castilla-Mancha, Toledo, Spain. The artist currently lives and works in Carbondale, Colorado. He is represented by Cris Worley Fine Arts in Dallas, Texas.