Past Exhibitions
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.
404
September 13 - October 8, 2022
404 is an internet code error that usually comes out when you try to access an unavailable webpage.
Postcards from the Alps
August 13 - September 3, 2022
Eddie Hara's Postcards From The Alps is an ongoing project started in 1996.
EKLAT
August 13 - September 3, 2022
This exhibit is borne out of gut feels-inspired by old and new sentiments, concerns, and mild obsessions culled from the here and there of the everyday.
Possessed Projxxx Presents:
July 19 - August 6, 2022
the artist unveils an imaginary world which is as colorful as it is harrowing, mingling pop references (from cartoons to children's games) with images from the adult world.
May Tenga Ang Lupa
June 14 - July 9, 2022
May tenga ang lupa, may pakpak ang balita (The land has ears, the news has wings) is an aphorism that reminds us not only that contemporary realities have ancient roots...
Crackling For A Piece Of The Moon
May 7 - June 4, 2022
“Look!” Yoji came back to the house with a goldfish in a plastic bag.
“Wait! We have to count 10,” said Aljure.
Pro Forma
May 7 - June 4, 2022
"Pro Forma” encapsulates this growing tendency. The Markov chain as representative of stochastic models...
The hem of a long conversation
April 2 - April 30, 2022
The Filipino culture has been shaped by hundreds of years of colonization, navigating in globalization, and persisting revolt to self-determination.
REAL FICTION
April 2 - April 30, 2022
Life is known to us through the aid of the senses, the miraculous filters of awareness, without which, we might cease to exist in the current context or perhaps inhabit unknown dimensions of being.
Terms and Conditions
February 27 - March 26, 2022
Terms and Conditions, a 3-person show featuring artists Maria Cruz, Manuel Ocampo and Gerardo Tan
It Wasn’t Just A Bad Dream
February 27 - March 26, 2022
Jigger Cruz' thick impasto paintings mines the depth of the figurative through abstraction.
