Tag Archives: Marija Vicente


Lyra Garcellano’s Epistolary

Lyra Garcellano, "Aria"

After disappearing for a year, spending six months of 2010 in an Asian Cultural Council grant in New York, Lyra Garcellano has come back with wonderful new work.  In Epistolary, her solo exhibit at Finale Art File, Lyra has treated us to five paintings she describes as imprints.  Faint figures whisper from her canvases, barely discernible through her loose pastel strokes.  All of women, their floral frocks blur into the background, creating sheer, almost abstract, patterns.  Her paintings have always stood out for their delicacy and softness, and evoke a sense of romantic melancholia.  This set keeps to that sensibility,  progressing naturally from her previous pieces.  To me, they seem to project a more confident Lyra.

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Six Young Artists On The Radar at SLab

When Gary-Ross Pastrana conceptualized On The Radar:  6 New Symptoms, he went back to the original brief for SLab, the gallery where the show now runs.  SLab or Silverlens Lab had been intended as a space that welcomes visual arts

Maria Jeona, "Identity crazy, your own worst enemy, hair and makeup by Maria Jeona"

experiments, a complement to silverlens, Manila’s first gallery devoted to photography projects.  What better way to revisit this thrust than to put together an exhibit of six artists who have just started making names for themselves?  As the exhibit’s curator, Gary gave them a bit of a nudge and a push, required nothing drastic, but squeezed out more from what they are currently doing. Continue reading →


Eleven New Grads Cross Into The Real World

Lou Lim, "Skin Deep"

Lou Lim, "Skin Deep", detail

You can’t beat the energy that emanates from new graduates champing at the bit, itching to show what they’ve got.  Tin-aw harnessed the excitement and the eagerness of eleven new graduates from the UP College of Fine Arts for Xing E. Jacinto, an exhibit that brings together their thesis projects. One’s thesis marks the culmination of college life, a final hurdle before graduation, a pause before the real world awaits. Continue reading →


Marija Draws on Bad Manners, Jayson Manipulates Life

 

Count on Mag:net to bring something novel to

Marija Vicente, Bad Manners Series

Marija Vicente, Bad Manners Series

to the current crop of shows.   Whether exhibiting works of an award-winning contemporary artist, or introducing a promising art student, you can bet that both shows bring us light, easy, uncomplicated pieces.  In a word, fun.

BAD MANNERS BY MARIJA VICENTE

Marija still has two years to go as a Painting major at the UP College of Fine Arts.  Already, she has made it to Rogue Magazine’s list of women artists to watch.  She gives us a chance to find out what the fuss is about as she presents 10 drawings,  what she calls foolish

Marije Vicente, Bad Manners Series

Marije Vicente, Bad Manners Series

portraits.  All pencil on paper pieces,  she captures uninhibited, even crass, behavior from subjects who have no qualms to embarassment.    Would be interesting to see what Marija does next.

Marija Vicente, Bad Manners Series

Marija Vicente, Bad Manners Series

 

Marija Vicente, Bad Manners Series

Marija Vicente, Bad Manners Series

 

Marija Vicente, Bad Manners Series

Marija Vicente, Bad Manners Series

 LIFE EXPECTANCIES BY JAYSON OLIVERIA

Jayson Oliveria, "No Sign of Life" installation, Not to Inspire Awe Series of paintings on printed canvas

Jayson Oliveria, "No Sign of Life" installation, Not to Inspire Awe Series of paintings on printed canvas

Jayson puts together a show of mixed media wall-mounted and free-standing pieces, all culled  from the pages of LIFE magazine.  He paints over printed canvases, applying smudges, smears, and figures, taking over the images,  leaving his imprint, and making them his own.  Not bad.

Jayson Oliveria, "Not to Inspire Awe 8" and "Point Blank"

Jayson Oliveria, "Not to Inspire Awe 8" and "Point Blank"

Jason Oliveria, Not to Inspire Awe Series

Jason Oliveria, Not to Inspire Awe Series

 

 

 

 

Bad Manners by Marija Vicente runs from 7 to 26 March 2009, Life Expectancies by Jayson Oliveria runs from 7 March to 8  April 2009. Mag:net Katipunan is at Agcor Bldg, 335 Katipunan Ave., Loyola Heights, Quezon City.  Ph (632) 929-3191 or visit www.magnetgalleries.com