Light of Dusk Series Written Commentaries

 

Manion's work engages her viewers in a dialogue about universal concerns through her personal encounters. The life-size figurative paintings and drawings reveal truthfully and authentically with the aged that late in life, there's beauty, difficulties and complexity remain present until the end.

In her work, appears elements of Hopperesque starkness, traces of Renaissance lavishness, infused with variation of mark making styles and materials that confers to a sense of individuality to each of her subject matter. Her portaits, marked most strongly by a clear sense of compassion, reveal as much about her as her subjects.

Kris Vagner Arts Writer, Reno, NV

 

At the end of our lives we (often) see ourselves in our past while those around us see us in the context of our present. Manion's work links the two...an emotional wallop through visual contextual situations and materials, which convey image and feeling...

Howard Rosenberg Professor of Art

 

Manion has rendered her series respectfully with tender loving detail, showing mastery of her media and artistic technique. This powerful series has brought up varied emotions in the viewers, causing them to reflect on their own thoughts about mortality.

Carol Sesko Arts Writer, Truckee-Tahoe, CA