Characterizing herself as a Constructivist-turned-Minimalist, who “can’t do anything else” but make art, Jane Manus produces abstract sculptures that punctuate the spaces into which they are set with their brightly colored surfaces and bold forms. Her three-dimensional constructions—ranging from furniture to wall-mounted pieces to freestanding, monumental works—spring from rough sketches. While she has experimented with wood and steel, she turned exclusively to aluminum early in her career. Manus cites early Constructivist sculpture, Minimalism, Modern architecture, and bridges among her influences, as well as fellow sculptors Marc di Suvero and Anthony Caro. In her works, she explores symmetry, balance, and form through carefully positioned geometric shapes, often squares and rectangles, and linear forms. At once industrial and organic, the hard angles and highly finished surfaces of her pieces are softened by references to the human body and nature.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Lincoln Center/List Collection, New York, New York White Space, West Palm Beach, Florida
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
The Columbus Museum, Columbus Georgia,
The Sagamore Collection, Miami Beach, Florida
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
City of Delray Beach, Florida, Art in Public Places Commission American Bankers Insurance, Miami, Florida
Boca Raton Museum, Boca Raton, Florida
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida Mississippi Museum, Jackson, Mississippi
Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
The Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, California
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming McDonald Stewart Art Center, Guelph, Ontario, Canada Doctor’s Hospital of Hyde Park, Hyde Park, Illinois
Rollins College, Cornell Campus Center, Winter Park, Florida Republic Security Bank, West Palm Beach, Florida
David S. Brown & Co. Baltimore Maryland
Rollins College, Sun Trust Plaza Terrace, Winter Park, FL Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
Byers Engineering Company, Atlanta, GA
Aspen Industrial, Farmington Hills, MI
Snow Becker Krauss, New York, NY