Don’t miss the gallery opening of Faithful Witness, a solo exhibition by local artist Mike McManus, then join us on the 14Y rooftop for a fun afterparty with your downtown community (weather permitting).

Mike McManus’ Faithful Witness explores converging styles of therapeutic and spiritual practices of art making. Steel, paper, fabric, and dye inform the aesthetic of the work, as do the contrasting processes of manipulation and allowance of these materials.

McManus’ Prayer Language series are utterings with ink and oil stick and a groaning of his spirit burnt through steel. The result is a visual “speaking in tongues” a communication with God through spirit, aesthetically grown out of a fascination and practice of Asian calligraphy and New York streetcore graffiti styles.

Paired with his dyed canvases, McManus floats between precise markings and release of control, allowing the unexpected flow of the dye to work together with his hand. Different attributes of a whole being. McManus has employed dying techniques in a mimic of the sky and its changing shapes and hues. The sun and the moon, centerpieces of this space.

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