Alex Manzanares is a realist artist whose current practice centers on drawing, painting, and sculpting. His artwork blends his classical training from Florence, Rome and Paris with contemporary aesthetics to create his distinctive interpretation. While his drawings and paintings challenge the boundaries of dimension by pushing form and depth, his sculptures endeavor to achieve presence. Negotiating color, composition, light and dark, his work explores the dialogue between the outer world and the inner world. In creating the work, he explores the thoughts, feelings, fears and desires of the personal experience and how they manifest in the social and environmental realm. This engagement with the artwork in its creation leaves an impression in the work that arouses emotional interaction.
His works are held in private collections in the United States, and Europe.