The Ateneo Art Awards Shortlist for 2012
A three-channel video installation documenting seafarers from a small Visayan island, two multi-piece sculptural installations, and a video celebrating the quirkiness of the jeepney: this year’s Ateneo Art Awards went to works firmly rooted on local sensibilities, translated by three talented artists with global perspectives. Continue reading
Vermont Coronel, "Connection", detail, layers of painted stencils
Vermont Coronel has professed his admiration for Logan Hicks, the American stencil artist known for his detailed urban landscapes. Unsurprising then that he has chosen to work with the same medium: layers of meticulously fabricated stencils, traced from his own photos of random city scenes, translated to canvas via spray-painted acrylic. It takes a minimum of three layers of stencils to complete an image, and it takes Vermont a week to create each layer. Continue reading