Jodie Manasevit

Jodie Manasevit is a New York–based painter whose work explores the tension between structure and intuition through fields of repeated “spots”—marks that hover between dots, daubs, and gestures. She received her BS from the City University of New York (1983) and her MFA from Hunter College (1985).

Over her four-decade career, Manasevit has exhibited widely, with solo shows at Cathouse Proper, Berry Campbell Gallery, Ars Libri (curated by Mario Diacono), Diacono Fine Arts, the Worcester Art Museum, White Columns, and the Jersey City Museum.

Her recent paintings orchestrate clusters of multicolored marks that drift, align, and dissolve across the canvas, creating surfaces that shift between pattern and dispersion. In exhibitions such as her 2025 presentation at Ghostmachine—where some works were inset into custom plaster walls—Manasevit’s paintings engage directly with architecture, emphasizing color, texture, and the physical presence of paint.

Manasevit’s work invites viewers into a space of suspended perception, where color and repetition create a vibrant, constantly shifting visual experience.