Amanda Manitach

Manitach, based in Seattle, creates imagery that invokes issues surrounding female psychology, physicality and sexuality. Bold, honest, and, at times, dark thoughts are shared in text, which melts into a soft feminine pattern sourced from an 1885 French wallpaper sample. Her large-scale drawings address the historical, often-gendered psychology of the decorative arts. The pieces are inevitably smudged, worn and covered with fingerprints where the artist’s wrists, hands, knees and limbs have come into contact with the paper, transforming the “pretty” pattern into a record of her thoughts and physical struggle to create.

You Had Me At NYC, 2019
Colored pencil on paper
76 x 51 inches

Courtesy of WINSTON WÄCHTER FINE ART