KRIS MANNING

Artist I Fabricator I Builder of Impossible Things

Somewhere between natural history and impossible history, strange things are taking shape.

THE SPECIMENS

ROOT TUNNELER

Keeper of Living Soil

WINGWRIGHT

Wingbinder and Dragon Symbiosis

DRIFTSYPHON

Atmospheric Filter Feeder

DRAGON

Makes Things Feel Certain Again

THE RECLAMANDER

Collector of What People Leave Behind

THE FIELD GUIDE

A record of creatures, systems, behaviors, and unresolved phenomena observed in and around the Dream Theatre.

THE WORK

Sculpture, painting, fabrication, and found objects used to make the improbable feel convincingly real.

THE DREAM THEATRE

The Dream Theatre is my working studio in Barnard, Vermont, where these creatures move from imagined into physical form.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kris Manning is a Vermont-based artist and fabricator creating creatures, objects, and imagined natural histories from sculpture, painting, found materials, and whatever else the work demands.

CURRENTLY TAKING SHAPE

New creatures, new experiments, and other questionable decisions are always underway.

FOLLOW THE WORK

For new creatures, works in progress, studio experiments, and occasional evidence that I should probably be supervised by an adult.