Manning—whose work can be found in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art in Maryland, the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, the X Museum in Beijing, and the Yuz Museum in Shanghai—is known for her lyrical, atmospheric paintings that blur boundaries. Deeply informed by her experiences living in Alaska and Mexico during her childhood, the artist’s works situate genderless, anonymous, spectral figures within sweeping landscapes that capture the light and environments specific to those locations. The tangled bodies in her theatrical, stage-like compositions move through dreamlike spaces, recalling the grand 19th-century history paintings of Winslow Homer and Gustave Courbet. Using pigments and painting techniques employed by Old Masters like Johannes Vermeer, Manning applies layers of oils to her canvases, producing a radiant, energetic effect that seems to refract light across the surfaces of her works.