Richard Estes

Arline Mann, a former Goldman Sachs managing director turned painter, brings a lawyer’s precision and an artist's intuition to illuminate the quiet resurgence of representational painting in a digital age. Mann dissects the movement's broader return to classical technique, human touch and lived experience, making a case for realism as not just tradition, but a countercurrent and a lasting presence in contemporary art.

In 'With Darkness Came Stars' she tells her story, and that of other women artists, painfully but with the aim of inspiring others to bypass the remnants of patriarchy in the art world.