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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,...
A Day in the Life

A Day in the Life: Johanz Mercurio

Johanz Mercurio's paintings prompts the audience to go on a quiet contemplation. As an artist, Mercurio learned painting...
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Registration Opens for Visayas Island Visual Arts Exhibition and Conference Aklan in November 2025

VIVA ExCon, or Visayas Islands Visual Arts Exhibition and Conference, is the longest-running biennial gathering of artists and art communities from all over the Visayas and beyond. Since its...
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A Room to Breathe

The conversation began quite organically, in 2024, with Johanz Mercurio simply showing up at Thrive Art Gallery, talking about this project he and his brother, Jed, were engaged in:...
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Folding and Unfolding of Memories in Faye Abantao’s “Don’t Forget to Remember”

Viewing Faye Abantao’s “Don’t Forget to Remember” at the Art Fair Philippines 2023 is opening doors to the...
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The Sacred and the Secular in Norberto Roldan’s “Viva España/ Long Live America”

Viva España Just like an altar, there is an abundance of objects for the audience to meditate on in...
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Melvin Guirhem’s Puluy-an Art Gallery Offers New Home for Artists

The past three years were quite an ascent for Melvin Guirhem. He won Grand Prize at the Philippine...
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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...
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Visualizing Happiness in Roland Llarena Exhibition at Puluy-An Art Gallery

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In his sixth exhibition, “Happiness”, Roland Llarena invites viewers...
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Antiqueño Artists Embark on New Artistic Concepts through “Palhit Kag Tabas”

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In honor of National Arts Month, the Province of...

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For our series Artist's Perspective, an artist reflects on how gentrification is highlighted during the pandemic.

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A Day in the Life: Van Bagañgan

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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

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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

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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

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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

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I’ve had the honor and privilege to be one of the resource persons invited to the Philippine Visual Arts Summit - Visayas Leg organized...

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

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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...
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A Room to Breathe

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Tokwa Peñaflorida Unveils New Works on Paper in “Walang Naiwan Kundi ang Hamog sa mga Dahon” Following Talisay Residency

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Registration Opens for Visayas Island Visual Arts Exhibition and Conference Aklan in November 2025

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