Amanda Manitach
Amanda Manitach is the visual arts editor of City Arts magazine. She is also an artist and co-founder at The Factory, an art gallery and event space in Capitol Hill’s Pike/Pine corridor.
Recent Articles
Visual Art
Subversive Liturgy
At the moment Vermillion is lacquered ceiling-to-floor in wheatpaste, streaked and stenciled text, and canvases densely shellacked with graphite and paint. Gigantic twenty-foot-tall figures modeled after Caravaggio's Entombment of Christ loom overhead...
Visual Art
Weightless: Allison Manch & Sharon Butler at SEASON
Robert Yoder's exhibits at SEASON are always a visual feast. Yoder's eye for pattern, color (like Elisabeth Kley's watery, color-saturated earthenware or Peter Scherrer's dense brushwork) and a taste for wittily debauched humor (think Ian Toms or Mike...
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Not Your Mom’s Lit Fest
It's a Monday night and you've walked into the Sorrento Hotel's Fireside Room (or if you didn't, you wish you had). It always feels like wandering into a Victorian humidor there, one that smells lightly of liqueurs and hardwood. The seating is all...
Artwork
Période de clownisme IV and III
FALLING It’s something we do in a variety of ways. Amanda Manitach’s drawings of distorted women evoke the pain – and unspoken ecstasy – of transgressions we can’t help but tumble into. So many ways to remind you to keep your feet on the...