Double Dead: Merging Self and Nature

Double Dead is a two-person exhibition of a painter and a sculptor, one inspired by imagination and the other is driven by material. Noel Elicana is a product of art contests,...

Curating the Artists; the Artists Curating

In her essay, "With Practicality Comes a Practice: The Artist as Curator," Sarah Pierce examines the initial instance of artists assuming control over the...

Art in the Context of Squares, or, How We Unwittingly Deduce these Squares into a Cerebral Notion of Emptiness

In an artistic occasion where instead of the celebrated figures of humanity and its concomitant attributes (the bursting life, visual colors and stories), the...

A Day in the Life: Van Bagañgan

On social media, Van Bagañgan is known as Alima Embroidery. Using embroidery as his chosen medium, Van transforms objects into thread art, imbued with the delicate tenderness of care, pattern, and order—qualities uniquely achieved in handmade works. Fittingly, "Alima" is the...

Musings on the Dissonance between Artists’ Intent and Critics’ Interpretation

I remember a conversation I had with a fellow artist a long time ago. The artist expressed concern after observing a huge difference between an interpretation of their painting by an art critic and what they thought was the actual meaning...

Curating the Artists; the Artists Curating

In her essay, "With Practicality Comes a Practice: The Artist as Curator," Sarah Pierce examines the initial instance of artists assuming control over the curation and presentation of their own artworks. Pierce pointed out that this occurred in 1648 when a...

Art in the Context of Squares, or, How We Unwittingly Deduce these Squares into a Cerebral Notion of Emptiness

In an artistic occasion where instead of the celebrated figures of humanity and its concomitant attributes (the bursting life, visual colors and stories), the square, or to be precise, the convex quadrilateral, seizes the day, takes center stage, and quietly secures...

Artist Log: Philippine Visual Arts Summit in Cebu City

I’ve had the honor and privilege to be one of the resource persons invited to the Philippine Visual Arts Summit - Visayas Leg organized by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts - National Committee on Visual Arts. The summit...

[Ink]lings and Pain[things]: The Art of J. Elizalde Navarro

Today is the birth anniversary of J. Elizalde Navarro. The National Artist would have been 101 years old today.  Personally, I found him to be a rather obscure figure among our local painters – or artistes, for that matter. Among the Panayanon...