A GENERATION of abstractionists emerged in the 1970s, mostly from the University of the Philippines, spawned by the incalculable inspiration,...
TO THIS day, she can remember one childhood memory. At the age of 5, her hands lovingly caressed a tabletop...
LIKE traffic jams, the Manila art scene has also seen congestion, with dozens of artists opening exhibitions running simultaneously in...
TYPICAL of what any other Filipino tourist does, our globetrotting, eminent glass sculptor Ramon Orlina does the round of obligatory...
IN ROY Veneracion’s solo exhibition currently on view at Altro Mondo Gallery, there is one particular work that will likely...
AT THE Singapore I Light Festival in 2012, she dazzled the audience with her glowing “Coral Garden.” For this visual...
ADMITTEDLY, many pieces of “tourist art” were done by hacks, with no pretensions to high art. Still, there were some...
AS CURIOUS children we observed with rapt fascination the repeated “eyes” around the pineapple which Mother was about to peel....
IS “HIBLA” the next “Diaphanous”? Started decades ago, reaching back to the 1970s, and propelled running into the hundreds of...
WHAT business would a renowned portrait painter have to do with abstraction? No more opposite sensibility is there than these...
