Artwork copyright Manuel Neri. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Artwork copyright Manuel Neri. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Artwork copyright Manuel Neri. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Artwork copyright Manuel Neri. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Posturing Series No. 3, 1981

Manuel Neri
American (born 1930, died 2021)

Location: Washington State University, Pullman

About the Artwork

Posturing Series No. 3 is part of artist Manuel Neri's body of sculptures that investigate the formal elements and spatial relationships of the female torso in an abstracted style.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Washington State University.

About the Artist

Artist and teacher Manuel Neri (1930-2021) created life-size sculptures that explore the human figure. He was part of the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and ’60s in San Francisco, California, who rejected Abstract Expressionism and returned to figure-focused art.
Neri was born and grew up in California. He served in the U.S. Army in the Korean War (1950-53) and used the G.I. Bill to study at the California School of Fine Arts but never completed a degree. Neri taught art at the University of California, Davis from 1965 until retiring in 1990.