Christopher Manning
25, New York City
christopher.e.manning@gmail.com

Christopher Manning’s work is not very pretty or pleasant. However, it is always, always interesting, so it is terribly beautiful.

Fantastically, Christopher has managed to create pieces that not only speak to viewers, but make viewers speak to themselves. His work triggers individually unique emotional responses that are surprising, frightening, and seductive.

From Chrostopher:

“My work brings out subconscious cognitive realities through sensation, process and self documentation. Atoning for the inexplicable in life and the psychic apparatus, each tells a story. Some offer resolution, others, merely a sustained exploration of the void that is life and the future.

Reflecting on a past rooted in obsessiveness and laden with religious scarring, the nature of my work is influenced by that which I feared, now ratified in a personal sense of being. Thus, making attempts to understand the unconscious battle of being human and a reaffirmation against complete solipsist existence; transcending the confines of body and into personal metaphysics of idea.

Set in a state of peril, my ideas and objects, those primarily being worn and on the fringe of discard or possible reuse, teeter between life and death, old and new, left and right mind, light and darkness, in between states of corrugated impermanence. Futures are never known, only completed by the viewer. The work becomes spiritual mantras to meditate upon.”

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