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Current Upcoming Past Fun House A Group Exhibition November 4 - 13, 2022 Terrifying, ghoulish, and supernatural are only a few of the central ideas that come into mind when one talks about Halloween. Homes decorated with pumpkins, skeletons, and spider webs, people of all ages dressed as their favorite nightmarish characters, and the tradition of Trick-or-Treat; a practice wherein children dressed in costumes walk up from door to door in their neighborhood, saying this famous phrase in order to fill their baskets with delicious treats. It is easy to [...]

Current Upcoming Past Space Between Short Distance Ferd Failano A Solo Exhibition November 4 - 13, 2022 There is a distant look in the eyes of the figures in Ferd Failano’s paintings, as if they are tracing through their sight the outline of objects, they so desire, tucked away beyond their reach. They languish, as they become unraveled by loss, and longing. The landscapes in the painting look like patchworks. The mountains transition into buildings. A man sitting by a bonfire has been placed into the composition like a [...]

Current Upcoming Past Seasons Of Grace December 10 – December 26, 2022 Celeste Lecaroz is a self-taught artist who made her debut in the art scene in 2016. She paints large-scale images in pastel and in spontaneous realism to bring to the public eye the urgent causes that she supports such as environment, health, gender and equality, culture, education, and nationalism. Celeste Lecaroz has always been an advocate of sharing beauty and kindness. In her works, the correlation between natural phenomena to the human spirit is visualized as a [...]

Current Upcoming Past To Fight Aloud is Very Brave A Group Exhibition September 28 - October 6, 2022 Arte Bettina presents, ‘To Fight Aloud, is Very Brave’ featuring the works of Mark Belicario, Judeo Herrera, Edwin Ladrillo, CJ Tañedo, Juanito Torres and Orley Ypon Morning Glance Oil on Canvas | 48 x 36 inches | 2022  Invocation Oil on Canvas | 48 x 60 inches | 2022  Fight Aloud Oil on Canvas | 36 x 48 inches | 2022  [...]

Current Upcoming Past  Between Breaths A Group Exhibition September 16 - 26 2022 Between Breaths takes a closer look at scenes, objects, actions, and spaces that many, by default, treat as uneventful, insignificant, or mundane. The 16 artists featured in the group exhibition — Maverick Abac, Jonas Miguel Arlegui, Malyn Bonayog, Shireen Co, Jason Delgado, Brendon Dinglasan, Eugene Dominguez, Jirah Labanza, Jheco Lorica, Erwin Mallari, Clint Normandia, Joie Pabilando, Ikea Rizalon, Patricia Santos, Jerline Sunga, and Jun Tuplano — foreground this perceived negative space, the amorphous gray zone between [...]

Current Upcoming Past Imaginary Elsewhere A Group Exhibition September 3 - 14, 2022 The anachronistic works in the exhibition revolve around impressions of the past informed by extant media rather than lived experiences. This expression of bygone eras is evident not only in how they depict consumer products, technologies, and fashion and design sensibilities that, albeit obsolete, remain iconic and characteristic of certain periods but, in using black-and-white or sepia palettes and replicating effects (e.g., foxing) that signify deterioration, many simulate how the past has been represented and mediated [...]

Current Upcoming Past Over/View A Group Exhibition September 28 - October 6, 2022 In its more than 50 years in the Philippine art scene, printmaking has progressed from a humble medium with just a handful of printmakers into an art form that is now being explored by many artists from various regions in the Philippines. The growth of the printmaking movement can be traced to its founding father, Manuel Rodriguez, Sr. in 1968 and was known as the Philippine Association of Printmakers. The Association of Pinoyprintmakers  (AP), a group [...]

Reminiscence November 15 – November 24, 2022 Adrian Trijo’s “Reminiscence” is a memento of his childhood memories and amusement. Through various symbolisms and artistic syllepses, Trijo navigates the intersection of adulthood and youth. Like a journal of juvenile fantasies overlapping the grim and idle world of superficial maturity, “Reminiscence” is an array of playful and surreal artworks from Trijo’s nostalgic perspective and retrospections on life. Fun Sailing Oil on Canvas | 36 x 48 inches | 2022  Dreamland Oil on Canvas | 60 x 84 inches | 2022  [...]

MANster Festival November 15 – November 24, 2022  In Paulo Amparo’s “Manster Carnival”, he traverses through the masks and hearts of those around him and himself. Playing with the word “monster”, he exhibits what he sees, either a man or a monster, instead a complicated species navigating life and its habitat. It is a carnival of experiences, pretenses, and mechanisms surrounding human nature mixed with societal issues and personal understanding of his sentiments towards others. Be it good or bad, past or present, we all have reasons for projecting ourselves publicly and denying vulnerability to others. [...]

Autumn Nocturne November 26 – December 06, 2022 In music, nocturnes are compositions that evoke the mystery, elegance, and enchantment of nightfall. Romantic, dream like and ethereal the nocturne is the last, warm glimpse of the world before we fall asleep. Similarly, autumn is the season of change: a folding up and a cooling down of nature herself. The change, from year’s sunny days to longer nights and colder days. This autumn nocturne is brought to us by six gifted female artists, who take us on a visual and emotional journey, to the end of [...]