She uses drawing primarily to familiarize herself with ways of organizing space and to develop the forms and motifs which appear in her paintings—colorful, abstract work created with oil on canvas. Following a 2005 solo exhibition at the Worcester Museum in MA, Manasevit abandoned formal abstraction for work which mirrors her internal world of memories, dreams and imagination. She received her BS degree from CUNY and her MFA from Hunter College in 1985 and has been part of the adjunct faculty at Northeastern University since 2000. Before being represented by Berry Campbell in NY where she had a solo exhibition in July 2014, she was represented by Diacono Fine Arts in Boston.