Manuel Neri

(American (born 1930, died 2021))

Artist and teacher Manuel Neri (1930-2021) created life-size sculptures that explore the human figure. He was part of the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and ’60s in San Francisco, California, who rejected Abstract Expressionism and returned to figure-focused art. Neri was born and grew up in California. He served in the U.S. Army in the