Lunch with Alfredo B. Diaz

 Miraculously, he got us tickets. I burst into Palma Hall on the U.P. Diliman campus at exactly 1p.m.,...

A Day in the Life: Jed Mercurio

Jed Vincent Mercurio is an artist from Iloilo City who’s vibrant, animation-inspired style blends perspective-driven compositions with lively,...

Lunch with Alfredo B. Diaz

 Miraculously, he got us tickets. I burst into Palma Hall on the U.P. Diliman campus at exactly 1p.m., just as the matinee of the sold-out Sugatán was about to...

A Day in the Life: Jed Mercurio

Jed Vincent Mercurio is an artist from Iloilo City who’s vibrant, animation-inspired style blends perspective-driven compositions with lively, imaginative color work.  Working in acrylic and mixed media on wood,...
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Contemporary Art Meets Way of Life in “Panagbo: Encounters with Tradition”

Place and identity are intersecting themes of contemporary art that are often explored by artists and curators. In...

Politics and Abstraction in Allain Hablo’s “Bleed and Bloom II”

With its rich textures carefully layered over pours of paint, Allain Hablo’s art reminds us of why we...

The City as Canvas: Public Art and Iloilo City

The taxi I was riding passed by the Diversion Bridge, I asked the driver what he thinks about...

Maralita: Visualizing the Struggles of the Working Class

Lorebert "Maralita" Comision is a multi-media artist from Northern Samar. His works explore the realities around him, and...

Althea Villanueva: Immortalizing Culture Through Art

Iloilo has a rich culture, captivating stories, and cultural...

Gelo Zarsuelo: Coloring Queer Narratives

Hailing from Kalibo, Gelo Zarsuelo is a queer artist...

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Lunch with Alfredo B. Diaz

 Miraculously, he got us tickets. I burst into Palma...

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Jed Vincent Mercurio is an artist from Iloilo City...

The mercurial art of the Brothers Mercurio

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A Day in the Life: Johanz Mercurio

Johanz Mercurio's paintings prompts the audience to go on...

Hala Viva! A Fundraising Exhibition for Visayas Islands Visual Arts Exhibition and Conference

“Hala Viva!” blends the sound and meaning of two...

“Ugnayan,” a Lesson on Collaboration and Exchange

The dominance of Manila as the center of the...

Blurred Liminalities in Between: Everywhere is Here at Thrive Art Gallery

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A Day in the Life: Van Bagañgan

On social media, Van Bagañgan is known as Alima...
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A Day in the Life: Jed Mercurio

Jed Vincent Mercurio is an artist from Iloilo City...

The mercurial art of the Brothers Mercurio

Breathe. Simply that.  Such is the title of Thrive Art...

A Day in the Life: Johanz Mercurio

Johanz Mercurio's paintings prompts the audience to go on...

Hala Viva! A Fundraising Exhibition for Visayas Islands Visual Arts Exhibition and Conference

“Hala Viva!” blends the sound and meaning of two...

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Blurred Liminalities in Between: Everywhere is Here at Thrive Art Gallery

How would a visual medium encapsulate abstract understandings of location, dimension, space, setting, and the miscellany of social themes and issues which come to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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