An exhibition on the Philippine colonial house, its history, design and significance (artistic, cultural and social). The authentic century artifacts came from private collection of families from Guiguinto, Plaridel, Angat, Baliwag, Malolos and Norzagaray in the province of Bulacan.

At the Gallery II of the San Beda Alabang Museum.

Exhibit runs until November 14, 2009

The SBA Museum in the San Beda College Alabang campus is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday and will be open Saturday for scheduled lectures, visits and tours. The exhibition is free and open to the public. For inquiries contact Mina 8423511 or Jerome 8091781 local 235.

Christina Dy will be showing Roots, new commissioned portraits of her signature charcoal hair series, at SLab’s 20Square Gallery from Wednesday, 23 September to Saturday, 17 October, 2009 from 6-9pm.

CD started hair drawings four years ago as abstracted portraits. Drawn in a subtractive process, CD shades the entire field in charcoal black and simultaneously draws with an eraser and fills in details with graphite. The tangible and tactile becoming more so evident as the highlights are erased in. She starts with photographing her sitter’s hair, then scaling up the images and abstracting them completely. They are anonymous, but present very intimate clues as to the identity of the subjects. How the curls fall or the waves turn, the angles of a widow’s peak, or the twists of a crown puyo—these are individual and unique landscape markers of our crowns. Hair is our expression of identity, a carrier of our DNA, an organic marker of every person’s individuality. One of the commissioned pieces is her self-portrait. The artist offers new possibilities of portraiture.

This 2009, Christina Dy received the CCP 13 Artist Award and shortlisted for the second time as a finalist for the Ateneo Art Awards.

Image: Jonathan 1, 2009

Silverlens proudly presents Dwelling, a series of images by Frankie Callaghan. As in his process and concept, Callaghan captures the ambient aura and light of the city. He takes to the backstreets and saturates dwelling places, monuments of cement and metal, in washes of light and color from their immediate surroundings.

He seizes rare glimpses of stillness, steeped in an acute awareness of the present. “I found myself drawn to the quiet, empty spaces of urban fringes at night and to the unintentional beauty of dwellings that seem to have grown organically out of the sincere need for shelter and the limits of material and space.” says Callaghan. His forthright perception eliminates the noise of judgment and elucidating the scenery with evidence of stories and leaves viewer to speculate. And as a product of his candid process and perception, he reveals the indwelling life and beauty that are most often overlooked.

Dwelling by Frankie Callaghan opens at 6 pm on September 9, 2009, Wednesday, and runs until the 3rd of October 2009 at Silverlens Gallery. As a related gallery event, Frankie Callaghan will be hosting Sound Reaction a music and sound event where musicians and DJs interact with the photographs from the show. The even will take place on October 1, 2009, Thursday from 6-9pm at Silverlens Gallery.

Dwelling will be shown alongside Archetypes by Stanley Ruiz at 20Square, and Tears, Cuts and Ruptures, a group show featuring 10 collage artists organized by Gary-Ross Pastrana at SLab.

Image: Frankie Callaghan, 449, 2009

The exhibit is for free.

2009 Ateneo Art Awards : The Next Wave
at the Grand Atrium, Shangri-la Plaza

Shortlisted Artists: Martha Atienza, Allan Balisi, Ringo Bunoan, Joey Cobcobo, Kiri Dalena, Kidlat de Guia, Christina Dy, Patricia Eustaquio, Jan Leeroy New, Goldie Poblador, Pam Yan Santos, Michelline Syjuco

The Ateneo Art Awards are presented by : Ateneo Art Gallery, Shangri-la Plaza, Unionbank, Metro Society, and Ystyle of the Philippine Star

LAONG LAAN
by Emmanuel Garibay

WOW PILIPINS (WOW PHILIPPINES)
2009
Oil on canvas, 91.4 v 61.0 cm

Emmanuel Garibay presents his recent works in oil on wood and canvas in a solo exhibition entitled LAONG LAAN at the ArtistSpace. The show is a joint undertaking of Ayala Museum, Arte Verde, and Artis Corpus Gallery.

Jose Rizal used the penname Laong Laan in the 1890s when he wrote poems and articles for La Solidaridad, then the Propaganda Movement\’s strongest voice. Literally translated it means \”reserved for a long time\” and figuratively it means \”laging handa\” or \”ever ready.\” Laong Laan, as title of Emmanuel Garibay\’s exhibition, carries with it similar meanings. The exhibition features works which have remained in the artist\’s studio waiting for their proper time, yet always ready for when such a time would come. The time is now and the only criterion used in the selection of works for thsi exhibition is relevance. They are editorials on the present.

The ArtistSpace is located at the 2/F Glass Wing of the Ayala Museum, and is accessible via the 2/F pedestrian walkway. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays, and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekends.

Admission is free.

SLab proudly presents Satellite: Eye In The Sky by Gus Albor. The show is inspired by the omniscience of the satellite, its relentless scrutinizing and participation in our lives. “Are things of magnitude really being monitored by certain individuals through this devise round-the-clock?” Asks Albor. He introduces geometric forms, metal, computers and laser lights, conveying the austere technological aspect of the satellite, against intimate earth tones that link it back to the human.

Albor, a seasoned abstract expressionist, first emerged from the 70’s art scene with his now signature abstract and minimalist approach. He sustains this contemplative nature in his show, signifying our collective and constant meditation on the simplicity and complexity of life, in comparison to the ceaseless watchfulness of the satellite. This visual dialogue is resounded in the make and imagery of the paintings and sculptures and even more in the restless laser light installation.

Satellite: Eye In The Sky by Gus Albor opens at 6 pm in SLab, Silverlens Gallery on August 12 and runs until the September 12, 2009. It opens simultaneously with Some Of The Things You Don’t Already Have by Julius Clar at 20Square Gallery.

Satellite: Eye In The Sky will be shown alongside Kaleidoscope by Ina Ayala, Mintio and MM Yu at Silverlens Gallery and Some Of The Things You Don’t Already Have by Julius Clar at 20Square Gallery.

For inquiries, contact Silverlens Gallery at 2/F YMC Bldg. II, 2320 Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati, 816-0044, 0905-2650873, or manage@silverlensphoto.com. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 10am–7pm and Saturdays 1–6pm. www.silverlensphoto.com.

Silverlens Gallery proudly presents Sundance, a collection of photograms by Kawayan de Guia, Neal Oshima, Allan Razo and Julius Clar. The artists take a back-to-basics approach and utilize alternative photographic processes—Platinum Prints, Cyanotypes, Kallitypes (Vandyke Prints) and Gum Bichromate Prints—that antedate the first silver gelatin photographs by more than a century.

Amid the digital age, of hyper-progression and technological advancement, de Guia, Oshima, Razo and Clar take a retro step to the most basic and organic of photographic processes using the sun as their \’darkroom\’. Each process is an arduous one, subject to uncontrollable variables that demand fastidious experimentation. Each uniquely imperfect print is a suggestive abstraction of its original subject, this artisanal nature contributes to its longevity.

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For inquiries, contact Silverlens Gallery at 2/F YMC Bldg. II, 2320 Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati, 816-0044, 0905-2650873, or manage@silverlensphoto.com. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 10am–7pm and Saturdays 1–6pm. www.silverlensphoto.com.

Image: Detail, Allan Razo, Shell 3, 2005 and Cactus, 2004

SLab proudly presents Balanâ, a collection of idiosyncratic charcoal drawings by Bacolod-based artist Charlie Co. The show will open on June 10 and will run until July 4, 2009.

Co moves away from his signature color and whimsy with his show Balanâ, a collection of black and white charcoal works he describes as products of a tormented imagination. A social realist and figurative expressionist, he renders his predictions of the future against a backdrop of the present realities—a global economic crisis, an impending pandemic, the erosion of religion by outdated dogma. Amongst Charlie Co’s visions of the victims of power and greed, we encounter hopeful oracles, muscle men, angels and beacons. We find comfort that these familiar symbols, though dark and foreboding, will be manifest when the time comes.

Balanâ by Charlie Co opens at 6 pm on June 10, 2009 and runs until the 4th of July 2009. Co will be giving an Artist Talk on June 13 from 3-5 pm.

Balanâ will be shown alongside Inner Spaces by Briccio Santos at Silverlens Gallery and Disconnect The Dots by Bea Camacho at 20Square Gallery.

For inquiries, contact Silverlens Gallery at 2/F YMC Bldg. II, 2320 Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati, 816-0044, 0905-2650873, or manage@silverlensphoto.com. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 10am–7pm and Saturdays 1–6pm. www.silverlensphoto.com.

Image: Charlie Co
Running In Red Boots, 2009

The Lopez Memorial Museum has three (3) ongoing exhibitions. The main exhibition, Double Take, brings its seminal Juan Luna and Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo collection against the light of fairly recent scholarship on the Spanish colonial period artists. It also features a video installation of filmmaker Raya Martin. The two (2) other exhibitions are Coordinates and Tutelage, the former focusing on the library’s map collection and books on cartography, and the latter has American colonial, Commonwealth and early Philippine Republic school texts and their accompanying images.

The museum is open from Mondays to Saturdays, 8am-5pm. For more information, you may call 6312147 or email admin@lopez-museum.org. You can also check out the museum’s blogsite at http://pezseum.blogspot.com/