Dashiell Manley: Periplums
5 March - 18 April 2026
Marianne Boesky Gallery
509 West 24th Street

DROPBOX FOLDER OF IMAGE FILES
CHECKLIST OF WORKS ON VIEW
GALLERY’S PRESS RELEASE

Relating Japanese internment camps' impact on his family to the urgency of ICE's presence in America today, Dashiell Manley (b. 1983 in Fontana, California; based in Los Angeles) will present at Marianne Boesky Gallery a new suite of abstract paintings whose canvas shapes mirror a map from his house to Manzanar, a sister camp to the one where his maternal grandmother was interned in the 1940s. (Another family member was interned and allegedly sent back to Japan, but never seen or heard from again). Manley grew up visiting the camps with his mother as what he describes as a sort of a cultural pilgrimage.

"The Japanese-American internment experience was something we learned about and studied in our house as children and was this trauma point in my house where the vibe was that 'this could happen again,' said Manley. "And it *is* happening again in various ways, for instance post-9/11 with the looming threat of Guantanamo for Arab-Americans and again in present day with ICE detentions at an unprecedented scale. The parallel feels more urgent than ever."

Manley was scheduled for a solo show at the gallery last year, but the paintings were damaged in the Altadena fires, causing a postponement. The new exhibition, Periplums, is a fresh body of work made from scratch to replace the damaged works. Overall in his practice, Manley employs meditative, labor-intensive painting techniques to engage with the impacts of time on memory, both personal and political. His work is in the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum, LACMA, and more.

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More information is in the above-linked press release, and a preview of works on view is below. See the Dropbox folder linked above to download high-resolution image files. Artwork information is in each image’s file title. Image reuse must be exclusively in association with press coverage of the exhibition, with the credit line “copyright of the artist and courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery”