Past Exhibitions
Fiesta Paraiso sa Ikatlong Dimensyon
November 9 - December 7, 2024
The works in the present series derive their subjects from photographic fragments of the artist’s life.
if I could be all you wanted all the time
November 9 - December 7, 2024
Abstract painting today offers a wide array of approaches ranging from the appeal of more direct and authentic expressions to more disembodied applications.
this desire, to break
November 9 - December 7, 2024
this desire, to break contemplates on the act of breaking away from the constructed identities we embody.
Shrine for the Battle Dance
November 9 - December 7, 2024
“To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname ‘empire’; and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace” - Tacitus, Agricola
Care / Control
September 28 - October 26, 2024
This idea has now sprouted into thirteen terrariums which he presents in Care/Control (Towards a Sustainable Ecosystem).
POSE ←→ EXPOSE
September 28 - October 26, 2024
POSE ←→ EXPOSE is an exhibition of excerpts from Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen’s photographic works related to her performances from 2019–2023, and the artist’s latest hair painting series.
INSTANTANEOUS: Thoughts Between A Line
September 28 - October 26, 2024
Limestones form through an accumulation of calcium matter carried by water, oftentimes produced from bodies of ancient life throughout vast spans of geologic history.
Sunday Paintings
September 28 - October 26, 2024
While looking at the works for "Sunday Paintings" and thinking of what to say about them I remembered a Japanese phrase "mono no aware".
HARBINGERS
September 28 - October 26, 2024
Jason Montinola’s “Harbingers” is a part of the artist’s modern myth-making and world building catalogue of characters.
Hibi 日々
August 24 - September 21, 2024
Solid colors and straight shadows build upon each other to form scenes as if paused from an art film.
Nature of Looking
August 24 - September 21, 2024
The landscape is in fragments. Tree, sky, sun, water, and concrete. The fragmented form sets the motion of the series, mimicking the involuntary movement of the eye.
DWELL
August 24 - September 21, 2024
Let me count the ways in which we dwell. To dwell is to linger, to be sheltered, to be lost in thought.
Eat All You Can
August 24 - September 21, 2024
"Eat All You Can" is a familiar phrase in Philippine restaurants, inviting patrons to indulge without restraint.
Sulsi at Bastidor
August 24 - September 21, 2024
In the exhibition Sulsi at Bastidor (Mend and Frame / Mending and Framing), Napay pursues the idea of life or living and guidance or guiding.
Speak to Me in a Language I Can Hear
July 20 - August 17, 2024
In such a small space, at least by most gallery or exhibition standards, Kelli Maeshiro opens up a world of dialogue and expression with “Speak to me in a language I can hear.”
Searching for the In-Between
July 20 - August 17, 2024
Printmaking is the process of transferring an image from a matrix such as wood or metal onto another surface such as paper.
Dear Artist,
July 20 - August 17, 2024
"My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history." - Martin Kippenberger
No Thing Disappears into Nothingness
July 20 - August 17, 2024
No Thing Disappears Into Nothingness. When something is made, something is left out.
Locality of Being
June 15 - July 13, 2024
“The intimacy created from painting renders the artworks as postcards for the wandering soul—not quite sure when it is, or where you actually are—what abstraction home truly conveys”
Cosmic Swimming Lessons
June 15 - July 13, 2024
In this new series of paintings, ranging from large to minuscule sizes, light swirls and ripples around the space of the canvas with varying intensity and color.
Les Voyage de Bougainvilliers
June 15 - July 13, 2024
Les Voyages de Bougainvilliers is a new series of paintings by Todd B. Richmond, conveying migrations of imagery that once had specific origins but are ubiquitous today.
Impending Bloom
June 15 - July 13, 2024
“Impending Bloom” is embedded in Merino’s body of works and exhibitions under Algún día todo esto tendrá sentido.
Titles of Yoko Ono’s music, a series of text paintings from 2000 to 2006 by Maria Cruz
May 4 - June 8, 2024
Yoko Ono's song titles are the source for an ongoing series of word paintings by Maria Cruz.
Gossamer
March 23 - April 27, 2024
Colors annihilate.
Occupy: form and content.
Paint a head, a flower, a mountain, text.
A Heart Beating in the World
March 23 - April 27, 2024
"The title is borrowed from Clarice Lispector's novel Agua Viva, a reminder of the atmosphere by which these paintings were made..."
Re Inventing Histories/Re Inventing Stories
March 23 - April 27, 2024
Juni Salvador subdivides his Australia bring-backs, found objects and Philippine-themed curiosities brought into Australia...
Concentric Heavens
March 23 - April 27, 2024
"The lines, the circular motions, the spheres and all that is engulfing, encircling arching waves of patterns, spherical shapes..."
Relaxation is a State of Mind
February 17 - March 16, 2024
Mark Salvatus's solo exhibition at The Drawing Room asks about ways to relax.
Echoes
February 17 - March 16, 2024
"Echoes" is a collection of artist books that was shaped into demolished structures.
Delirium
February 17 - March 16, 2024
In presenting ten plank-like paintings for the exhibition,
the artist critiques the Western modernist trope of
minimalist paintings leaning on walls.
Promised Land
January 13 - February 10, 2024
In a literal, allegorical, and abstract sense, The Promised Land
is an embodiment of a long-sought desire, a destination
where one’s hopes are realized on arrival.
Everything We Don’t Know
January 13 - February 10, 2024
“Everything We Don’t Know” by
Gene Paul Martin confronts the problems posed by the history
of painting...
Un/Happy Endings
October 28, 2023 - November 25, 2023
“Nearly every result [the quantum theorist] pronounces is about the probability of this or that… happening – with usually a great many alternatives.”
EMBODIED
December 14, 2023 - January 9, 2024
Artists such as Habulan, Co, Justiniani, Mallari, Esquillo, and De Chavez experiment on formalism or abstraction to truthfully dwell on a genuine search for artistic possibility.
Young Filipino Painters
September 23, 2023 - October 21, 2023
The Drawing Room regards 14 young artists and their painterly visions, gestures, and language, that suggest the gradations of artistic process of an incoming generation of contemporary Filipino painters.
Systems, Structures, Scales
August 17 - September 16, 2023
In the spectrum of my art practice lies as an inherent premise - Systems, Structures, Scales - wherein I identify as the totality of my being.
Splashings and thunderclaps through the eyelids of two shores, murmuring
July 18 – August 12, 2023
Enfolding through time and space, the waves from the sea reach distant shores in a neverending process of search...
Place of Origin
April 22 - May 20, 2023
Place of Origin is an intimate study of land as body, a prompt into the violences of dominance attitudes over the nonhuman.
Lolo’s Lil’ Guerilla
April 22 - May 20, 2023
Alvin's grandfather served as a sniper in the Philippines during WW2. He often shared his war stories to the artist who was very young at the time.
Pastures of Plenty
March 18 - April 15, 2023
Dominic Mangila presents a solo exhibition titled "Pastures of Plenty'' which features a new series of works that combines history painting and meta - narrative.
It’s Not a False Alarm.
March 18 - April 15, 2023
What the artists Kyungmook Kim, Inhwan Oh, and Ahram Jeong have in common is not the subject matter of their works but their tendency to deal with Korean society’s cultural issues in the perspective the Other...
The Expanding Cluster of Particles and the Birth of New Planets
February 11 - March 11, 2023
Amy Aragon and Jay Ticar have been working on family and immigration by individually or collaboratively articulating meanings of home through architectonic configurations and constructing imagined scenes.
The memory of those lost paintings that disappeared with unrecognized view of life
February 11 - March 11, 2023
The memory of those lost paintings that disappeared with unrecognized view of life, is Maria Cruz's current solo exhibition that remembers and grieves several works she had lost on a flight to Melbourne last 2022.
Zignal
January 7 - February 4, 2023
Moving to a new country or city is a major reset. Cities changes you with radically different references and can propel new ideas or new directions for older ideas.
You Have to Hit Rock Bottom
January 7 - February 4, 2023
You Have to Hit Rock Botton is a set of new works reflecting Abrugena’s approach to painting: building on a visual language that tests areas of discomfort, experimentation, and
starting over repeatedly.
Free Phenomenon
October 15 - November 12, 2022
The latest collaboration between Cordero and De Guia revisits the usefulness of dialogue.
Confetti United Inc.
September 13 - October 8, 2022
Yason Banal is an artist working with various forms and ideas traversing seemingly divergent systems.