Exhibition of
Emerging Filipina Artists
Artists
Bea Aspiras
Bea Aspiras is a painter based in Quezon City, Philippines. She studied painting at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, OCAD University in Toronto and Langara College in Vancouver. She has an affinity for abstract expressionism, completely falling in love with its artistic process.
Tammy De Roca
Tammy De Roca is a visual artist whose works explore how textures build images through paintings, sculptures, and other forms. She continues to study and experiment on how our perception of appearances and images is challenged or supported by what textures represent. She completed her BFA at the University of the Philippines, Diliman and has exhibited extensively in the Philippines, particularly in Metro Manila.
Aly Kangleon
Aly Kangleon is a ceramic artist and instructor from the Philippines. Known for her functional pieces that celebrate femininity, she also makes sculptures that explore the relationship between feminism, community, and care work. She is also interested in the conceptual work that surrounds ceramic art making, consciously incorporating themes of composition and decomposition, ecology, growth, and fermentation.
Mikhaela Marie
Mikhaela Marie is a graduate of BFA at the Far Eastern University. She was able to hold two solo exhibitions from 2020 to 2021. Her works were featured in almost 30 group exhibitions around the Philippines.
Kat Melo
Kat Melo is a designer and illustrator. Her works are a celebration of shapes and texture as well as an exploration of life's small joys. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of the Philippines, Diliman with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in Visual Communication.
Krista Nogueras
Krista Nogueras earned her BFA from the University of the Philippines in 2009. She creates sculpture and installation works that explore the human psyche and historicities.
Her first solo exhibition Lake Predicament at Artinformal Gallery was shortlisted for the Fernando Zobel Prize for Visual Arts at the 2019 Ateneo Art Awards. In 2018, she was selected for and participated in T U Collab Singapore Art Residency and Exhibition.
Yandra Po
Yandra Po is a Fil-Chi visual artist. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Interior Design at the University of the Philippines. Her works were featured mostly at the Ysobel Art Gallery in BGC Taguig, Philippines. She had her first solo show last year entitled Her Motherland's Memoir.
Paulina Luz Sotto
Paulina Luz Sotto discovered her passion for abstract art soon after graduating Cum Laude from the Ateneo de Manila University in 2015. She is proudly continuing the legacy of her late grandfather, Philippine National Artist Arturo Luz. Known for her clean lines and bold colors, Paulina's paintings focus on one concept: The beauty in simplicity.
Jel Suarez
Jel Suarez is self-taught artist based between Manila and Bacolod, mostly practicing collage-making. She was granted artist residency at Rimbun Dahan (Malaysia) in 2017, and invited to Larga Artist Residency (Philippines) in 2019. She has shown her works in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. Recent exhibitions include small bones, holding a mountain at West Gallery (2020), A will for prolific disclosures at The Drawing Room Gallery (2020), and her participation at ALT Philippines through MO_Space Gallery (2020). Her solo exhibitions with MO_Space Gallery (2019) and West Gallery (2018 & 2020) were consecutively shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards, where she became the first recipient of the Italian Embassy’s Purchase Prize.
Squirterer
Squirterer is a Fine Artist from Davao, Philippines. She obtained her BFA in the University of Mindanao, dabbling in traditional and digital art forms. From 2017 to 2021, she was able to showcase her works in 12 group and solo exhibitions.
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Chelsea Theodossis
She paints realistic images of ordinary things as vessels of memories and blank papers as a constant reminder of the unknown using oil on canvas. Her art includes movements to signify the impermanence of everything. The paintings' slow and traditional process is merged with the fast evolving modern technology.
Vicente Manansala
National Artist for Painting (1981)
(January 22, 1910 – August 22, 1981)
Vicente Manansala's paintings are described as visions of reality teetering on the edge of abstraction. As a young boy, his talent was revealed through the copies he made of the Sagrada Familia and his mother’s portrait that he copied from a photograph. After finishing the fine arts course from the University of the Philippines, he ran away from home and later found himself at the Philippines Herald as an illustrator. It was there that Manansala developed a close association with Hernando R. Ocampo, Cesar Legaspi, and Carlos Botong Francisco, the latter being the first he admired most. For Manansala, Botong was a master of the human figure. Among the masters, Manansala professes a preference for Cezanne and Picasso whom he says have achieved a balance of skill and artistry.
He trained in Paris and at the Otis School of Drawing in Los Angeles. Manansala believes that the beauty of art is in the process, in the moment of doing a particular painting, closely associating it with the act of making love. “The climax is just when it’s really finished.”
Source: National Commission for Culture and the Arts
Hernando R. Ocampo
National Artist for Visual Arts (1991)
(April 28, 1911 – December 28, 1978)
A self-taught painter, Hernando R. Ocampo was a leading member of the pre-war Thirteen Moderns, the group that charted the course of modern art in the Philippines. His works provided an understanding and awareness of the harsh social realities in the country immediately after the Second World War and contributed significantly to the rise of the nationalist spirit in the post-war era. It was, however, his abstract works that left an indelible mark on Philippine modern art. His canvases evoked the lush Philippine landscape, its flora and fauna, under the sun and rain in fierce and bold colors. He also played a pivotal role in sustaining the Philippine Art Gallery, the country’s first.
Ocampo’s acknowledged masterpiece Genesis served as the basis of the curtain design of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Main Theater. His other major works include Ina ng Balon, Calvary, Slum Dwellers, Nude with Candle and Flower, Man and Carabao, Angel’s Kiss, Palayok at Kalan, Ancestors, Isda at Mangga, The Resurrection, Fifty-three “Q”, Backdrop, Fiesta.
Source: National Commission for Culture and the Arts
Hermes Alegre
Multi-awarded artist Hermes Alegre was born in Daet, Camarines Norte on March 7, 1968. He graduated from the Philippine Women’s University, Majoring in Fine Arts, where he studied under notable artists Ibarra dela Rosa and Mars Galang. Art critics have described his works as “portrait-like renditions of women with an uncanny sense of movement". Looking at his paintings, one gets the impression that the figures are actually alive. His paintings are mostly beautiful dusky women depicted in a fantasy of foliage executed with an abundance of colors and zestful energy. Alegre’s women are prized and avidly awaited by art collectors, making him one of today’s best-selling artists. He has had at least ten major solo exhibits to his credit, including one major show in Singapore and group shows in New York, Belgium and Germany. He won first place at the National Painting Competition held by Philippine Motors Association and recognized as a Provincial Treasure Awardee of Daet, Camarines Norte for his contribution to the Philippine art scene.
Source: Heritage Art Gallery
Photo courtesy of the Saturday Group of Artists
Neil Felipp
Neil Felipp San Pedro began his design journey as a student of Industrial Design in the University of the Philippines Cebu. Straight out of an intensive apprenticeship with world-renowned furniture designer, Kenneth Cobonpue and while immersed in the family business of manufacturing and exporting metal components and accessories, Neil designed a bag for his mother. It was in this experience that he found his passion in using brass work for fashion accessories.
Neil Felipp San Pedro started his eponymous label in 2010. In the years that followed, the brand Neil Felipp has gathered recognition from both local and international press, editors, stylists, celebrities, and a discerning and loyal clientele who keep his passion for designing ethereally elegant minaudieres and accessories alive.
Awards and recognitions to his credit include the British Council’s Look of Style Awards Accessory Category Winner in 2014 which sent the designer to Sheffield Hallam University in the UK to further hone his craft, Preview Magazine’s Rising Creatives, a mention in the book Rich People Problems by bestselling author Kevin Kwan, and costume credits in the movie adaptation of Crazy Rich Asians, among others.
Source: Official website of Neil Felipp