During the ’80s Kate Manheim was famous as the downtown super-star of Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater surrounded by circle of artists including Yvonne Rainer, Joan Jonas, Jonas Mekas, Richard Serra and among them Jack Smith. Born in the Bronx, NY and raised in Paris, friend of George Perec, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Marguerite Duras, she returned to her first love, the visual arts, in the early ’90s. One of her first exposures to painting came when she was 3-years old and her parents: poet Mary O’Connor and Ralph Manheim, a well-known translator, lived in Springs next door to Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. Pollock gave the family a small square painting to celebrate the birth of their second daughter. Kate remembers being placed as a child in front of Pollock’s to soothe her out of temper tantrums; to this day Kate favors square format for her paintings and collages. In France as a young girl she was sent to, famous in the 1950s as The Thursday Academy, studio of Arno Stern. Manheim’s mature career as a painter really began after 1989 and her studies with Hans Haacke at Cooper Union. She has worked “in the hermetic environment of her Wooster Street loft without compromise, apology or acknowledgment” (John Zorn) ever since. In 1996 she exhibited a lifetime’s worth of artwork at the gallery of Anthology Film Archives. In 2008 she had a solo show at the Cue Foundation.

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