Manny Neubacher

For Manny Neubacher, art is collaboration between the artist and viewer; a way to challenge the solitary and individualistic experience of viewing art and create a moment wherein the artist makes the process of creative inspiration public. An act of engagement, Neubacher’s art is experienced.

The 30 year-old artist is busy and ambitious. Throughsixteen, his first major Toronto show in November 1999, filled the Barbara Frum Atrium at the CBC with hundreds of souls eager to take their scissors to his 16 6’x4’ canvases. During Toronto’s Moose in the City frenzy during the summer of 2000, Neubacher painted the Olympic Moose that later went on to attend the Sydney games. Since then, he has been occupied with various projects, most recently, a sculpture commissioned for the Memorial Zen Sculpture Garden dedicated to Seynmour H. Knox III.

Neubacher’s talents are diverse – and he is driven by craft. A visit to the Toronto studio he shares with his mother Gerda, also an artist, reveals an attention to detail and the importance of art as part of everyday life. He has worked extensively in the mediums of painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, and etching, using and creating the means to push the boundaries of his skill. The resulting works are always new; striking in colour, texture, and relevance. Neubacher’s work involves process, whether it be five years spent travelling around the world or learning to weld. Invariably, the process becomes part of his art, an extension of his expression, and a way to further extend the viewer experience. In the exchange between artist and viewer, Neubacher consistently adds the nuance of ownership, asking ‘Who owns the experience once the work is created?’

Manny Neubacher currently divides his time between Florida and Toronto. His most recent work can be viewed at the Knox Farm State Park in East Aurora, N.Y.

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