by David Pagel
If you’ve even been to a dinner party with great food and even better conversation, you’ll know what it’s like to visit “Flaming June VII: Flaming Creatures” at Gavlak in Los Angeles. The exhibition of 34 pieces by 27 artists mixes art of all shapes and stripes to form a freewheeling feast. Lively back-and-forths take on lives of their own as they inspire, challenge and satisfy — often deeply and dramatically.
b. 1985, Corona del Mar, CA
Lives and Works in Los Angeles
EDUCATION
2007 BFA. New York University. Tisch School of The Arts.
2011 MBA. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2018 Bummer Island, Last Resort Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 Nature, Castor Gallery, New York, NY
Flaming June VII: Flaming Creatures, GAVLAK, Los Angeles, CA
Cheap Vacation, GAVLAK, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2016 For Pete’s Sake, Carl Kostyal, Stockholm, Sweden
The Barn Show, Johannes Vogt, East Hampton, NY
Boots Entering the Museum, NADA Preview, New York, NY
I Hate Mondays, Mon Cheri, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
Shackle Me Not, Traaseth Gallery, Oslo, Norway
No Rain, No Rainbows, GAVLAK, Palm Beach, FL (solo)
2015 Ten Year Anniversary, GAVLAK, Los Angeles, CA
Michael Manning: And Alterations, Last Resort Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
Caesar Salad, CURA, Rome, Italy (solo)
Michael Manning: Sticky Bumps, Sommer Contemporary, Tel Aviv, Israel (solo)
Post Analog Painting, The Hole, New York, New York
New Drawings, Levy Delval, Brussels Belgium
2014 Plainly To Propound. GAVLAK, Los Angeles, CA
Refraction: The Image of Sense. Blain Southern. London.
Wild Fusion: Vol. IV – Technoeconomicology. Bill Brady Gallery. Kansas City, MO. (solo)
Episode 14. Middlemarch. Brussels.
Wild Fusion: Vol. III – WWWHATWWWEDOISSECRET. Carl Kostyal. Stockholm. (solo)
Wild Fusion: Vol. II – I Want To Believe. Retrospective Gallery. Hudson, NY. (solo)
Wild Fusion: Vol. I – TOTAL COLLAPSE. American Contemporary. New York. (solo)
Material Images. Johannes Vogt Gallery. New York.
Too Soon. Perry Rubenstein Gallery. Los Angeles.
2013 Sheryl Crow Pandora Paintings. Bill Brady KC at NADA Art Fair. Miami Beach (solo).
Bright & Contemporary. Smart Objects. Los Angeles (solo).
Over The Valley. Steve Turner Contemporary. Los Angeles.
Museum of Moving Image. Best of: Fach & Asendorf Gallery. New York.
2012 Bring Your Own Beamer : LA. The Geffen @ Museum of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles.
ASTRAL PROJECTION ABDUCTION FANTASY. Monstertruck Gallery. Dublin.
Open Network. Cirrus Gallery. Los Angeles.
2011 GIF GROUP SHOW: FRIENDS. Fach & Asendorf Gallery.
Street Show: The Things Between Us. Eyebeam. New York
A Small Forest. Kunsthalle New. Chicago.
Self-Love. Copenhagen Place. London.
SELECT PRESS
2017 Pagel, David. “No wallflowers here: Sparks fly when art mingles on the walls of 'Flaming
June VII',” Los Angeles Times, June 27.
2016 Steven Cox. “In Dialogue”. Hunted Projects.
2015 Alexxa Gotthardt. “Michael Manning Is an Archeologist of Endangered Internet Icons”. Artsy.
2014 Carl Kostyal. “Wild Fusion, VOL. III: WWWHATWWWEDOISSECRET,” Artforum
Claire Marle Healy. “A day in the life of Michael Manning,” Dazed Digital
Blackrainbow. “Interview of Michael Manning”, Daily News.
2013 Lindsay Howard. “Painting by Numbers,” Rhizome
2012 Kyle Chayka. “How Going Viral Has Changed Art,” The Creator Project.
Creative Bloq Staff. “Phone Arts : Designing with The IPhone,” Computer Arts UK.
2011 Bryan Chaffin. “PhoneArts Celebrates Art Made on IPohines,” The Mac Observer.
Justin Yu. “Phonearts.net is a free ticket to a cell phone art exhibit,” C-NET.
WSU Digital. “Turn On, Plug In, Walk Out: How “Street Show” Transforms a Single USB Stick
Into a Guerrilla Art Gallery,” Artinfo.
Joel Kuennen. “A Small Forest of Net Art,” ArtSlant.
Nicholas O'Brien. “Net Art Out of The Past,” Bad At Sports
Paddy Johnson. “The Decentralization of Art on The Internet: An Imagined History,” Art Fag City
2010 Russell Smith. “Art Made By A Computer, And You,” The Globe and Mail.
