Each Jane Manus sculpture is many works in one. Her geometric painted aluminum sculptures sketch shapes in the air that change depending on the vantage point.

Six large-scale works by Manus are on view for the season at the Armory Art Center’s sculpture garden in West Palm Beach. A smaller wall piece hangs in the gallery inside.

The shapes are familiar — rectangles, boxes, triangles and the like — but they’ve been de-constructed and violated. In the sculpture Danielle, a triangle twists like a dislocated joint. In Screams Big, an angled linear shaft pierces a door-like frame and heads for the sky.

As William Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, said in the introduction to the artist’s recently released DeBuck Gallery monograph, her sculptures are constructed to “conjure up a complex and prismatically shifting array of implicit, transparent spaces and paradoxically insubstantial solid forms.”

The outdoor display speaks to the Armory’s commitment to exhibit large-scale works in its sculpture garden, which started last year with an exhibition of Herbert Mehler’s organic-looking Corten steel sculptures. Filling the sculpture garden with art gives the campus a focal point and connects its buildings, said Sandra Combs, chief executive.

In addition, “it is important for us to show this kind of work,” she said. “We have a great space, and we need to take advantage of all parts of it. This is another way for us to show art to the community.”

Manus has exhibited her work at the Armory several times before. When the organization asked her to provide the outdoor centerpiece for its 25th season, “I said I would be honored to,” the artist said. “The Armory is a wonderful addition to the community.”

Manus, 61, has been crafting metal sculptures for more than 40 years.

“When I first started working with metal, I loved it because of its permanence and strength, and the fact that you can make it move or twist and look light,” she said.

She prefers monochromatic colors, such as the bright red, yellow and blue on view at the Armory “because I don’t like to break up the lines,” she said.

Typically, Manus begins her sculptures by manipulating small pieces of scrap metal until she discovers the configuration she wants. “I’m not good with sketches and I can’t do it on the computer,” she said. “I need to have it in my hand and continually move it. Just 1/4-inch can make all the difference between whether a piece works or doesn’t.”

The artist now lives in West Palm Beach, but she grew up in Palm Beach, where she lived in the 1960 Alfred Browning Parker-designed Modernist home on Wells Road that was demolished in 2008. Her work has been widely exhibited and is in the collections of the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville, The Georgia Museum of Art, The Lincoln Center/List Collection in New York, The Sagamore Collection in Miami Beach, The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, and other institutions.

For the most part, she titles her work casually. For example, she named one of the pieces in the show Think Big, because she concluded it would look good as a 16 1/2-foot-tall sculpture.

Occasionally, the titles communicate more about the artist’s intent. She called a work that includes an off-kilter 6-foot doorway Interactive because viewers can walk through it. “People should be involved with a sculpture and not be afraid to walk through it and touch it,” she said.

Inviting interaction does have its drawbacks, though. “Consequently, I do a lot of re-painting,” she said.