Yasharel Manzy Filled with vigor and energy, Yasharel’s paintings exude a sense of search and go far beyond the limitations of landscape to explore paint and color with increasing focus. The artist uses bold brush strokes and impasto paint to create luxuriant textures from which compositional elements emerge, and ‘light’ transforms to become vibrant color itself.
While Yasharel retains the feeling of locale and the radiant light that has become his signature, these new paintings have a greater degree of autonomy. They have gained strength and have been transmuted into works that become as much about the act of painting and the sensation of color, as about any particular scene, location, or country. This love of color has a basis in Yasharel’s early life as he grew up in the ancient Jewish sector of Isfahan, a city known for its production of sumptuous and vibrant Persian rugs. As a child Yasharel had an interest in the arts, but took a different route after immigrating to America in the 1960’s. It was a trip to the Louvre, in Paris, in the winter of 1990 that set Yasharel off on his new path. While strolling through a gallery, a painting of a French scene stole his eye. “There I was, glued to the floor, and then moments later I was overwhelmed by this intense emotion. That afternoon, in Paris, I found myself at my personal crossroad and I decided to change my life.”
Over the past twenty six years Yasharel Manzy has become one of the premier artists working in the South East. He has been exhibiting at TEW galleries for the past nine years. ── Jules Bekker “The paintings of Yasharel Manzy – abstracts, landscapes, still life and figures
‘reveal,’ in the artist’s own words, ‘the true beauty of things in life.’ With luminous, vibrant colors and interacting organic shapes, each of his paintings produces a relaxing, peaceful, soothing effect; an oasis away from our daily lives. For the artist, however, they document an ongoing process of doing and undoing, of self-criticism and evolving, of recreating and reinventing himself through his art.” Irving Finkelstein, Ph. D., Art Historian, Georgia State University. Yasharel has had over forty One Man Shows. His paintings have sold throughout the world. SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2015 The Landscape Show, TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA
2014 Expressions of Landscape, TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA Coach House Gallery, curated by Marianne B. Lambert
2009 Celebrating the Abundance of Color; Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2008 Huntsville Museum of Fine Art, “Vignette,” June, 2008 Megan Candler Gallery, Vero Beach, FL
2007 TEW Galleries, 20th Anniversary Exhibition. November, 2007
2006 Holiday Show – Small Works, Tew Galleries, Atlanta, GA
2005 Bruns, Bauret-Allard, Tew Galleries, Atlanta, GA SELECTED ONE MAN SHOWS
2014 Yasharel Manzy, Solo; New Paintings, Gallery 1, TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA Allison Sprock Fine Art, Charlotte, NC
2013 One Man Show, Yasharel Manzy, Left Bank Art Gallery, St. Simon’s Island, GA
2012 “Visitations and Symbols,” Yasharel Manzy, TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA
2010 TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA
2009 Yasharel Manzy, “Small Works,” TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA
2008 TEW Galleries, “Yasharel Manzy, One-Man Show,” Atlanta GA 2009 Yasharel Manzy, Small Works; TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA
2007 “Manzy, New Works,” TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA 2006 TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA 2004 Bennett Street Gallery, Atlanta, GA Megan Candler Gallery, Vero Beach, FL
2003 Bennett Street Gallery Left Bank Gallery, St. Simons Island, GA
2002 Stellers Gallery, Jacksonville, FL Left Bank Gallery, St. Simons Island, GA Bennett Street Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2001 Martha Lincoln Gallery, Vero Beach, FL Bennett Street Show, Atlanta, GA
2000 Left Bank Gallery, St. Simons Island, GA Stellers Gallery, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
1999 Bennett Street Gallery, Atlanta, GA Left Bank Gallery, St. Simons Island, GA
1998 Bennett Street Gallery, Atlanta, GA Alliance Francaise, Atlanta, GA Left Bank Gallery, St. Simons Island, GA
1997 Left Bank Gallery, St. Simons Island, GA Stellers, Jacksonville, GA
1996 Left Bank Gallery, St. Simons Island, GA Alliance Frances, Atlanta, GA Left Bank Gallery, St. Simons Island, GA Corporate Collections through Tew Galleries: Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, GA * RBC Bank, Atlanta, GA *