"What do you get when you cross an exhibitionist with a recluse?" The obsessive generosity of this work (I will give more and more of myself) feels aligned with Manheim the actor. The pictures are made by applying variation after variation of pattern and color to linear forms that resemble something humanoid, prehistoric, Mayan and cabalistic. They are, for Manheim, totemic forms. Each is also, as Richard Foreman says, a "Loki," something shape-shifty and hard to pin down. The "art content" is totemic.     
- David Salle