Jon De Manu is a Brooklyn-based artist whose practice is rooted in an exploration of the unseen—those symbolic, spiritual, and psychological forces that imprint themselves on the human experience. Working across painting, drawing, and assemblage, the studio becomes a space of inquiry and transformation. Here, materials such as pigment, graphite, fiber, and scent are not simply tools, but carriers of memory, intuition, and meaning.

Influenced by postmodern theory, esoteric symbolism, and lived experience, the work navigates inner states, ancestral traces, and cultural codes. Each piece evolves through layered processes that invite contemplation, fragmentation, and reconfiguration. Symbols emerge, dissolve, and resurface—marking time, gesture, and thought.

This is a practice that values slowness, depth, and emotional clarity. It invites viewers and collectors into intimate encounters with objects that function as thresholds—between the personal and the collective, the seen and the felt, the material and the mythic.

b. 1975, Western Hemisphere

Jon De Manu resides and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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