Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ƙarshen 1950s, Manuel Neri ya kasance memba na gidan wasan kwaikwayo na haɗin gwiwar masu zane-zane, Gidan Hotuna shida a San Francisco, tare da Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, da sauran masu zane-zane. A watan Oktoba na 1955, ya taimaka wajen shirya "Mawaƙa 6 a 6 Gallery" Karatun Gidan Gida shida
, wani muhimmin abin da ya faru a zamanin Beat inda Allen Ginsberg ya ba da karatun jama'a na farko na Howl. A shekara ta 1959, Neri ta kasance memba na asali na Bruce Conner's Rat Bastard Protective Association. A cikin 1960s, yana da alaƙa da Bay Area Figurative Movement. Ya auri Bay Area artist Joan Brown daga 1962 zuwa 1966, kodayake dangantakarsu da haɗin gwiwar fasaha sun kasance shekaru da yawa kafin wannan.