The mostly large-scale paintings in Requiem are built upon these ideas. They are dense and layered (some paintings have as many as 60 layers or more). The earth tones of ochre and umber speak to the raw earthiness that has always surrounded his practice, but something is different in these works. These are built in low relief like deep phycological terrains; the hint of a human figure appears every now and again, like the trace of a memory that cannot be conjured into full view.

Paul Manes was born in Austin, Texas. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas in 1983 and went on to study at Hunter College in New York City. His works have been exhibited in one- person exhibitions across Texas, California, and New York, as well as internationally throughout Italy, France, Monaco, and Germany. Most recently he was included in the touring exhibition Painting After Postmodernism in Brussels, Belgium, Malaga, Italy and Caserta, Italy. Manes’ work can be found in the permanent collections of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Tucson Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts Houston; the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont; and in the private collections of Yoko Ono and Emeril Lagasse. The artist currently lives and works in Carbondale, Colorado.