Manna Gallery presents

Manna Gallery is pleased to present Are you with me NOW?, a solo exhibition by Jeanne Lorenz, featuring new abstract paintings that emerge from an expansive daily drawing practice. Guided by the belief that art can metabolize the emotional and ecological turbulence of our time, Lorenz transforms accumulated gestures into luminous vertical paintings that balance vulnerability with resilience. She embraces painting as an act of participation rather than escape, one that holds grief, humor, light, and hope in dynamic tension. Lorenz invites viewers into a contemplative space where attention itself becomes a form of repair, and where abstraction offers a language for imagining what might grow from uncertainty. 

Jeanne Lorenz is a Vallejo-based abstract painter whose work emerges from a daily drawing practice, embodied walking, and extended treks along the Pacific Crest and John Muir Trails. She earned her MFA in Painting from Yale University (1998) and her BFA with High Distinction from California College of the Arts (1994). Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including White Room and Outer Boroughs at White Columns (New York), 100 Drawings at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (Long Island City), Interior Excess at The Drawing Center (New York), and Shadowshop at SFMOMA (San Francisco). Lorenz is a tenured professor of art at Solano College, where she has taught painting, printmaking, and design since 2008.

Website: jeannelorenzart.com/ | IG: @jeannelorenz