Exhibitions – 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”.

Jason Montinola’s “Harbingers” is a part of the artist’s modern myth-making and world building catalogue of characters.

Solid colors and straight shadows build upon each other to form scenes as if paused from an art film.

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.

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” is a familiar phrase in Philippine restaurants, inviting patrons to indulge without restraint.

In the exhibition Sulsi at Bastidor (Mend and Frame / Mending and Framing), Napay pursues the idea of life or living and guidance or guiding.

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.”

Printmaking is the process of transferring an image from a matrix such as wood or metal onto another surface such as paper.

“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