Dashiell Manley
Dashiell Manley
Dashiell Manley is a Japanese-American artist who employs a labor-intensive and meditative practice to create impasto abstract oil paintings. Informed by an abiding interest in film and photography, Manley works with conceptual frameworks to examine language, memory, and history. His colorful, highly textured abstractions operate as psychological landscapes.
Manley (b. 1983, Fontana, CA) has a BFA from CalArts and an MFA from UCLA. He has recently enjoyed solo exhibitions at SOCO Gallery, Jessica Silverman, Marianne Boesky, Stanford’s Cantor Center for Visual Arts and LAND HQ in Los Angeles. His work was included in group exhibitions Hammer Museum’s 2012 “Made in L.A.” and the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and elsewhere in Sao Paulo, Sydney, Torino, Vienna, Austin, and New York. His work is in the public collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Pomona College Museum of Art, CA; and Palm Springs Art Museum, CA. Manley’s fourth solo exhibition, “Tule Lake,” with Jessica Silverman is currently on view through September 7, 2024. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Dashiell Manley
speakers silent, blistering, 2024
Oil on linen
84 x 60 inches / 213.4 x 152.4 cm
Dashiell Manley
speakers silent, blistering, 2024
Detail
Dashiell Manley
once removed from celebration, 2024
Oil on linen
60 x 48 inches / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
Dashiell Manley
new developments, 2024
Oil on linen
36 x 48 inches / 91.4 x 121.9 cm
Dashiell Manley
in expectations, “the wait”, 2024
Oil on linen
39 x 36 x 1 inches / 99.1 x 91 x 2.5 cm
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a braided splash, 2024
Oil on linen
39 x 36 x 1 inches / 99.1 x 91 x 2.5 cm
Dashiell Manley
with distance, ahem, a moment, 2023
Oil on linen
Overall: 60 x 144 inches / 152.4 x 365.8 cm
Panel (each): 60 x 48 inches / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
Dashiell Manley
with distance, ahem, a moment, 2023
Detail
Dashiell Manley
Broken twigs, 2022
Oil on linen
48 x 60 inches / 121.9 x 152.4 cm
Dashiell Manley
jumping the gun, 2023
Oil on linen
60 x 48 inches / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
Dashiell Manley
watching for birds, waiting for beauty, 2024
Oil on linen
48 x 36 inches / 121.9 x 91.4 cm
Dashiell Manley
the fish bite at night, 2024
Oil on linen
36 x 48 inches / 91.4 x 121.9 cm
ADDITIONAL WORKS
Dashiell Manley
some efforts up close, 2023-2024
Oil on linen
48 x 36 inches / 121.9 x 91.4 cm
Dashiell Manley
daydreamers, 2024
Oil on linen
36 x 38 x 1 inches / 91 x 96 x 2.5 cm
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on renewal or something grand, 2024
Oil on linen
48 x 60 inches / 121.9 x 152.4 cm
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after time, ascension, 2023
Oil on linen
20 x 15 inches / 50.8 x 38.1 cm
Dashiell Manley
Rumblings, 2022
Oil on linen
48 x 60 inches / 121.9 x 152.4 cm
Dashiell Manley
cold feathers fall down, 2021
Oil on linen
60 x 48 inches / 152.4 x 121.9 cms
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all and all, on and on, 2021
Oil on linen
60 x 48 inches / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
Dashiell Manley
11/11/2020, 2021
Watercolor pencil, graphite and oil stick on canvas
84 x 60 x 1 1/4 inches / 213.4 x 152.4 x 3.2 cm
Dashiell Manley
11/10/2020, 2021
Watercolor pencil, graphite and oil stick on canvas
84 x 60 x 1 1/4 inches / 213.4 x 152.4 x 3.2 cm
one rock, one thousand rocks etc., 2019
Oil on linen
24 x 110 inches
61 x 279.4 cm
Black Dragons (grey eagle), 2019
Gouache, oil, and enamel on paper
Framed: 60 1/2 x 46 inches
153.7 x 116.8 cm
Split constitution (red eagle), 2019
Gouache and oil on paper
Framed: 60 1/2 x 46 inches
153.7 x 116.8 cm
Pastimes (some difference between right and right, signed), 2019
Gouache, oil, and enamel on paper mounted on linen
60 x 48 inches
152.4 x 121.9 cm
Pastimes (a foggy memory perfected, unsigned), 2019
Gouache, oil, and enamel on paper mounted on linen
60 x 48 inches
152.4 x 121.9 cm
Dashiell Manley
Pastimes (possibly, possibly not, unsigned), 2019
Gouache, oil, and enamel on paper mounted on linen
60 x 48 inches /
152.4 x 121.9 cm
Dashiell Manley
Pastimes (a posturing man, signed), 2019
Gouache, oil, and enamel on paper mounted on linen
60 x 48 inches /
152.4 x 121.9 cm
Dashiell Manley
Oil on linen
39 x 32 inches
Dashiell Manley
from inside flowers, 2019
Oil on linen
39 x 32 inches
Dashiell Manley
through the petal, 2019
Oil on linen
39 x 32 inches
Dashiell Manley
06.10.19 – F.T. (shake-up rocks), jun10MMXIX (webdings, upper), 2019
Watercolor pencil, acrylic, and enamel on canvas
37 x 25 inches
Dashiell Manley
06.10.19 – F.T. (urgent attention), ineffable (webdings, upper), 2019
Watercolor pencil, acrylic, and enamel on canvas
37 x 25 inches
Dashiell Manley
06.17.19 – F.T. (investment drive), Flounce (webdings, lower), 2019
Watercolor pencil, acrylic, and enamel on canvas
37 x 25 inches
Dashiell Manley
blank stares, 2018
Oil on linen
39 x 32 inches
Dashiell Manley
partial stares, 2018
Oil on linen
39 x 32 inches
Dashiell Manley
Circling beasts, Ha, 2018
Oil on linen
96 x 72 inches / 182.9 x 243.8 cm
Dashiell Manley
One September move, 2018
Oil on linen
61 x 114 inches / 154.9 x 96.5 cm
Dashiell Manley
e.f.w. (n.e.i.s.), 2017
Oil on linen
96 x 72 inches
Dashiell Manley
e.f.w. (t.l.o.), 2017
Oil on linen
39 x 32 inches
Dashiell Manley
e.f.w. (t.i.m.), 2017
Oil on linen
61 x 38 inches
Dashiell Manley
e.f.w. (t.b.p.), 2017
Oil on linen
39 x 32 inches
Dashiell Manley
e.f.w. (b.l.), 2017
Oil on linen
39 x 32 inches
Dashiell Manley
e.f.w.(a.u.) 11/16., 2016-2017
Oil on linen
61 x 38 inches / 154.9 x 96.5 cm
e.f.w.(J.I.) 12/16.
Oil on linen
61 x 38 inches / 154.9 x 96.5 cm
2016
e.f.w.(w.p. #2) 1/17.
Oil on linen
39 x 32 inches / 99.1 x 81.3 cm
2017
e.f.w.(n.n.) 1/17.
Oil on linen
39 x 32 inches / 99.1 x 81.3 cm
2017
e.f.w.(d.p.) 1/17.
Oil on linen
39 x 32 inches / 99.1 x 81.3 cm
2017
Various sources (quiet satires), 1 June 2016, a
Watercolor and gouache on canvas
72 x 60 inches / 182.9 x 152.4 cm
2016
FT (a chilling insight) 2/22/16
Watercolor pencil on canvas
37 x 25 inches
2016
Another other (nose)
Enamel, canvas, dye, wood, copper
48 x 36 inches
2015
Another other (feet)
Enamel, canvas, dye, wood, copper
48 x 36 inches
2015
It and others (torso)
Enamel, brass, dyed linen, gouache, watercolor, lacquer, graphite, plexiglass, wood, stainless steel, steel
Painting – 48 x 60 inches, Entire structure – 96 x 72 inches
2015
In Company: 25 – neatly (partial, two of two)
Paper, glass, polymer medium, zinc
61 x 49 iinches
2014
The New York Times, Friday September 26 2014, national edition Southern California (front page)
Watercolor pencil on canvas
96 1/4 x 72 1/4 inches
2014
Whitney Biennial, 2014
Whitney Biennial, 2014
Whitney Biennial, 2014
galley proof (three dimensions) The New York Times, Friday October 24 2014, national edition Southern California (front page)
MDF, glass, paper, zinc, lead, paint
26 x 26 x 26 1/2 inches
2014
galley proof (three dimensions) The New York Times, Tuesday November 11 2014, national edition Southern California (front page)
MDF, glass, paper, zinc, lead, paint
36 x 26 x 36 1/2 inches
2014
galley proof (three dimensions) The New York Times, Tuesday November 11 2014, national edition Southern California (front page), detail image
MDF, glass, paper, zinc, lead, paint
36 x 26 x 36 1/2 inches
2014
Three by three (three by three orange)
Watercolor, gouache, ink, polymer medium, lighting gels, glass, foamcore, canvas and wood
96 x 72 inches
2014
“The History of Technology” installation view
“The History of Technology” installation view
contained single second loop (yellow, purple)
Ink, polymer medium, lighting gels, acrylic sheet, wood and aluminum
61 x 49 inches
2014
one second loop (grand palais) 17
Gouache, watercolor, ink, canvas, coroplast, lighting gels, acrylic sheet, and wood
49 x 37 inches
2013
The Great Train Robbery (Scene 3 version A)
Installation view
LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2013
The Great Train Robbery (Scene 3 version A)
Installation view
LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2013
The Great Train Robbery (Scene 3 version A)
Installation view
LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2013
wax and feathers (falling)
Gouache, ink, watercolor, canvas, wood, glass, transparency film, and alumnimum
60 x 48 inches (double-sided)
2012
PRESS
What I Buy and Why: Software Exec Mikkel Svane on Moving to Get More Wall Space, and Commissioning 100 Works During Lockdown
How to Throw a Dinner Party Like a Gallerist.
VIDEOS
Dashiell Manley, It and Another Other, 2015
Dashiell Manley, of wax and feathers, 2012
Dashiell Manley, Untitled, 2011
CV
Born 1983, Fontana, CA
MFA, University of California Los Angeles, CA, 2011
BFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, 2007
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Tule Lake, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA [forthcoming]
2023
Scattered Timbers, Simões de Assis, São Paolo, Brazil
Dashiell Manley, SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2022
Model , Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2021
Soft Hidings, Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Simões de Assis, São Paulo, Brazil
2020
Pastimes, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
Solo Exhibition, Silverlens Gallery, Manila, Philippines
2018
Sometimes We Circle the Sun, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2017
E, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
2016
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2015
The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
Time seems sometimes to stop, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA [exh. cat.]
2014
Company & Conversations, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2013
The Great Train Robbery (Scene 3 version A), LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
The Great Train Robbery (Scene 3 version B), Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
A falling bolt (paused), Luce Gallery, Torino, Italy
2012
Dashiell Manley, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011
Thesis Exhibition. New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
were the our of the the the the, The End Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions
2023
A Growing Season, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
2021
Various Small Fires, Seoul, Korea
We Are Here, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
2020
Conversational Spirits, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
2019
Back in Black, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brazil
2018
Horizon Lines, Jessica Silverman @ 288 Pacific, San Francisco, CA
Kinship, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
Sky Above Clouds, Darrow Contemporary, Aspen, CO
2017
The Times, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
Hotel Kalifornia, Galerie Lefebvre & Fils, Paris France
Exchange Value, L.A.N.D., Los Angeles, CA
2016
Ibid Gallery, London, United Kingdom
End of Semester, BBQLA, Los Angeles, CA
On my volcano grows the Grass, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA
The Present and the Probable (curated by Jessica Silverman), fused, San Francisco, CA
Marinade, curated by Timo Fahler, BBQLA, Los Angeles, CA
Performing the Grid, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Weird Science, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Old News, cneai, Chatou, France
2014
Stars & Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection, Museums & Galleries of NSW, Sydney, Australia [exh. cat.]
Variations: Conversations In and Around Abstract Painting, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Glomar: Axis of Information, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, SIM Galeria, Curitiba, Brazil
The History of Technology, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco
The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [exh. cat.]
2013
Why Painting Now?, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna
Between This, That and the Other Thing, Harris Lieberman. New York, NY
2012
Made in LA 2012, The Hammer Museum, LAXART, and Barnsdall Municipal Gallery. Los Angeles, CA
This Is With It As It Is, Lora Reynolds Gallery. Austin, TX
In The Making, Roberts and Tilton. Los Angeles, CA
2011
Sara Clendening and Dashiell Manley, ACP at Art Platform, Los Angeles, CA
One for the money, two for the show, Curated by Math Bass, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Favorite Goods Presents 002, Favorite Goods. Los Angeles, CA
The Delta, Alexys Schwartz Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Beige and Plastic, Khastoo Gallery. Los Angeles, CA
2010
Spatium Sets. Gallery 479, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
MFA 2011 Exhibition. New Wight Gallery. Los Angeles, CA
Slab in Temporary Space. The Temporary Space, Houston, TX
2007
Through no fault of our own. 507 Rose Gallery. Los Angeles, CA
2006
A drawing show. Lime Gallery. Valencia, CA
Bibliography
2024
Muret, Dominique. “Dior Unveils Impressive Flagship Store in Geneva.” Fashion Network. March 6, 2024
2021
ARTnews. “What I Buy and Why: Software Exec Mikkel Svane on Moving to Get More Wall Space, and Commissioning 100 Works During Lockdown,” ARTnews, August 30, 2021.
2019
Furman, Anna. “How to Throw a Dinner Party like a Gallerist.” The New York Times Style Magazine. January 22, 2020.
2017
Runyan, Robin. “Culture Lab Detroit returns with discussion, exhibition on Post-Truth.” Cultured Magazine. October 2017.
Slenske, Michael. “The Elegy For A Young American Artist.” Cultured Magazine. June 2017.
2016
Soyer, Barbara (ed.). The Drawer – Heroes, no. 10, Spring 2016.
Davis, Samara. “Critic’s Pick: Performing the Grid,” Artforum. January 29, 2016.
Ghorashi, Hannah. “Marianne Boesky Gallery Now Reps Dashiell Manley,” ARTnews. February 25, 2016.
2015
Williams, Maxwell. “8 Emerging Artists to Watch Right Now.” DETAILS. July 9, 2015.
Slenske, Michael. “Glass Acts,” Blouin Artinfo, February 24, 2015.
Willard Sachs, Danica. “Time seems sometimes to stop,” Art Practical, February 2015.
2014
Griffin, Jonathan. “The History of Technology: Review,” Frieze Issue #166, October 2014.
Brown, A. Will. “Dashiell Manley: Interview,” Studio International. September 2014.
DeFore, John. “Dashiell Manley: Whitney 2014 Biennial, Five Hot Artists to Watch,” The Hollywood Reporter, March 2014
Bryant, Eric. “The Young Guns – 8 Whitney Biennial Artists Born After 1980,” Artspace, March 2014
2013
Linnert, Nicholas. “Critic’s pick, Los Angeles: Dashiell Manley.” ARTFORUM. June.
Mizota, Sharon. “Review: Dashiell Manley takes on ‘The Great Train Robbery.’” Los Angeles Times, June 13, 2013
Wagley, Catherine. “Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a Restaged Train Robbery.” LA Weekly, p. 35
Solway, Diane. “Who: The New Guard: Dashiell Manley.” W Magazine, April, p. 62
Carmichael, Elisa. “25 Artists to Watch in 2013.” Complex Art + Design. January.
2012
Beck, Chelsea. “Made in L.A. 2012.” Exhibition Catalogue, 2012, The Hammer Museum, LAXART, and Barnsdall Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, p. 224, 236-238.
Fitzpatrick, Kyle. “Made in L.A., Dashiell Manley, 31/60.” Los Angeles, I’m Yours, 2012.
“On the Make,” Angeleno Magazine, December, p. 84
2011
Tuck, Geoff. “Dash Manley Right Now.” Notes on Looking. December 8, 2011
Publications
2015
Thornton, Sarah, ed. Dashiell Manley: The New York Times Paintings. San Francisco: Jessica Silverman, 2015. [exh. cat.]
2014
Comer, Stuart, Anthony Elms, and Michelle Grabner. Whitney Biennial 2014. New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2014. [exh. cat.]
Girault, Lisa, ed. Stars + Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection. Bathurst: Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 2014. [exh. cat.]
2013
Manley, Dashiell. The Great Train Robbery. Los Angeles: LA><ART, 2013. [exh. cat.]
2012
Ellegood, Anne, Lauri Firstenburg, Malik Gaines, Cesar Garcia, and Ali Subotnick. Made in L.A. 2012. New York: Prestel, 2012. p. 224, 236-238. [exh. cat.]
Public Collections
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA