Unhappy Endings
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.
Exhibitions – 2023
EMBODIED
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 Exhibition 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.
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Systems, Structures, Scales
In the spectrum of my art practice lies as an inherent premise – Systems, Structures, Scales – wherein I identify as the totality of my being. Looking back at the past — in archival research to previous projects, I see this as a potential of interconnection through recurring time and space, that the things I do may intersect or not, in a recurring motivation to arrive in the totality of art.
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Splashings and Thunderclaps
Enfolding through time and space, the waves from the sea reach distant shores in a neverending process of search, layering fluid information that is made and erased without cease, burgeoning towards the future away from past measures.
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Place of Origin
Rocky Cajigan’s second solo exhibition at The Drawing Room, Place Of Origin, is on view until May 20. Place of Origin is an intimate study of land as body, a prompt into the violences of dominance attitudes over the nonhuman.
Lola’s Lil’ Guerilla
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. These stories, in addition to a life spent drowning in mental illness and the haunting ghosts of war, became part of an intergenerational sharing and succession of trauma and pain.
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Pastures of Plenty
Dominic Mangila presents a solo exhibition titled “Pastures of Plenty” which features a new series of works that combines history painting and meta – narrative.
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It’s Not a False Alarm.
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, especially feminist and queer perspectives. These perspectives are manifested in their constant artistic efforts that visualize cultural issues long avoided by Korean society.
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