Stacey Manela is an American abstract artist whose work explores disruption, signal, and the tension between structure and interference. Her paintings begin with layered fields, gestural marks, and physical interruptions that challenge the stability of the surface. What emerges are compositions that feel both constructed and unstable, like a transmission breaking through static.
Working between Houston, West Texas, and Sausalito, Manela draws from landscapes that are vast, quiet, and electrically charged with distance. These environments inform her visual language: fractured grids, looping systems, and interruptions that suggest communication networks, mechanical rhythms, and the invisible architecture of signals.
Her current body of work investigates the moment when a system fails or mutates. Loops break. Signals distort. Order gives way to something more human and unpredictable.
Manela’s paintings are held in private collections across the United States. By day, she is an information designer in litigation, and founder of Art of Facts. She also co-founded a home goods brand with her daughter, Libby.