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Artist Clarence Chun is a true child of the Pacific. Born in Tacloban, his early childhood memories revolve around escapades to the beaches of Leyte and Cebu.
Known as a serious artist who underscores social inequities in his paintings of Philippine urban life, Jaime Gubaton now takes less somber routes as he maps Manila’s suburban cityscapes on canvas.
As the enterprising and creative spirit behind My Little Art Place (MyLAP), 36-year-old Maya Ladyong is hardly a novice in the art business.
In the best-selling book “The Architecture of Happiness,” Alain de Botton writes: “We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves.”
Gallery Big’s Valentine group exhibit, “The Love Show,” locates love in the broader realm of passion, and manages, without being overbearing, to interrogate love’s performative dynamic and the often unquestioned rhetoric of commodified romance.
Tacloban-born Oahu-based painter Clarence Chun is literally making waves in Hawaii. His renderings of Oahu’s majestic waves have earned him the top prize in the Honolulu Museum of Art’s prestigious “Artists of Hawaii” exhibit.
Most people are surprised to know that renowned sculptor Michael Cacnio is a pastor who has been involved in the Christian ministry for the past 25 years.
National Artist José Joya had a peculiar way of greeting each New Year. On New Year’s eve, Peping, as he was known to family and friends, would lock himself in his studio, away from the charivari and excess of the holidays, to work on a painting and would emerge only after the revelries had the died down.
Tucked in the BenCab Museum (Asin Road in Tuba, Benguet, 15 minutes from Baguio City), on a quiet corner one level below the building’s main entrance, is a small room, not more than 30 sq m, quite nondescript from the outside but for the cautionary sign on the door warning visitors of its contents “that may be offensive to minors and certain individuals.”
The Power Plant Mall in Rockwell, Makati City, seems serious in its commitment to showcase art for public consumption.
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