Manuel Neri is an American sculptor, painter, and printmaker and a notable member of the “second generation” of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Born in Sanger, California in 1930, Neri studied under Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff, taking up abstract expressionism under their influence, but later turning toward figurative art. His primary medium is sculpture, typically using plaster, but sometimes marble or bronze. He is noted for his life-size sculptures, which though clearly figurative in nature, are abstracted figures rather than realist representations.
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