Vargas Museum Acquires Sculptures by Gary-Ross Pastrana and Stanley Ruiz

The collaborative work of Silverlens Represented Artist Gary-Ross Pastrana and New York-based designer Stanley Ruiz has been acquired by the Vargas Museum with the support of Silverlens Galleries, Blanc Gallery, and the Japan Foundation.

With the support of the Japan Foundation, Blanc, and Silverlens Galleries, the U.P. Vargas Museum acquires sculptural pieces by 13 Artist grant recipient Gary-Ross Pastrana and New York-based Filipino Designer Stanley Ruiz. The sculptures will be formally presented on March 4, Tuesday, 4:00PM at the museum grounds and will coincide with the reception of the Curatorial Workshop organized by Vargas Museum and Japan Foundation.

Both artists are graduates of the University of the Philippines, College of Fine Arts and have exhibited locally and internationally in the field of design and contemporary art practice. Originally created as a collaborative installation for a design laboratory initiated by the Japan Foundation, the sculptures were created in response to the Berg Space at First United Building (formerly Perez-Samanillo Building), a building designed by Juan Luna’s son, Architect Andres Luna de San Pedro. Both artists were inspired by the art deco elements of the architecture and lines of the building, in addition to the historical elements of Escolta.

Gary-Ross Pastrana is an artist/curator who is known for his installations, while Stanley Ruiz is an industrial designer whose work encompasses design, function and artistic practice.

The sculptures created by Pastrana and Ruiz complement the modernist elements of the U.P Vargas Museum building as well as its growing outdoor sculpture collection alongside the works of Abdulmari Imao, Cian Dayrit, Florante Caedo and Duddley Diaz and in the wider context of the other sculptural pieces around U.P. Diliman campus by National Artists Guillermo Tolentino and Napoleon Abueva. Ildefenso Marcelo, and Renato Rocha.

U.P. Vargas Museum Roxas Avenue, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City 1101 Philippines Tel +63 928 1927; +63 981 8500 local 4021, 4022 or 4024. Hours: Tues – Sat 9:00 am to 5:00 pm email: vargasmuseum@gmail.com web: www.vargasmuseum.upd.edu.ph

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About the Artists

Gary-Ross PASTRANA (b. 1977) graduated with his BFA from University of the Philippines. Known for his sculptural installations, he was the Philippine representative to Busan Biennale in Korea (2008) and participated in Aichi Triennial (2010). He is a recipient of the Thirteen Artists Award by the Cultural Center of the Philippines(2006), and was also the co-founder/curator of Future Prospect, an alternative art space in Cubao, Philippines. Pastrana’s works are about things broken apart, and the sudden space between the separated parts. In Busan Biennale (2008), he showed Collapsible Stream, a boat airmailed from Japan to Korea in pieces, created during his artist residency in Kyoto. He has exhibited in cities such as Manila, Los Angeles, San Francisco Bangkok, and Hong Kong among others. He lives and works in Manila.

Stanley Ruiz (b. 1976, Quezon City) is an industrial designer and media artist whose works are primarily expressed through objects that lie within the domains of design, craft, sound performance, and media arts. His works explore the synthesis of the natural and the man-made, human and object interaction, hardware hacking and customization, with a deliberate bent towards craft as a method of production. He has exhibited extensively in the USA, Europe, and Asia. He was the Philippine delegate to the 4th Asia-Europe Artcamp in Helsinki, Finland, where he presented his work Sound Economy.Ph (1976-2006) - a project that used Philippine economic data as an algorithm in audio-visual composition. Born and raised in Quezon City, he published the independent punk ‘zine Voice Out! and played in several underground bands in Manila from the early to late-90’s. He moved to Brooklyn, New York in 2004 and the following year founded the folk-inspired experimental noise group Gunung Sari.

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Silverlens in Art in the Park

Silverlens will be featuring artworks by:

Pio Abad
Zean Cabangis
Frank Callaghan
Johann Espiritu
Corinne De San Jose
Dina Gadia
Luis Lorenzana
Rachel Rillo
Isabel "Pepper" Roxas
Tatong Torres
Ryan Villamael

Come February 18, 2012, the familiar white tents of Art In The Park will once again dot the grounds of Jaime Velasquez Park in Salcedo Village, Makati. Now in its fifth year, this annual art fair still stays true to its intent of making art more accessible by taking it out of the hushed, intimidating confines of the gallery, and bringing it to the unrestricted spaces of the outdoors. Visitors can stroll the grounds and browse the art on offer against a backdrop of trees and sky.

From 2 p.m. to 12 midnight, art aficionados, collectors, or just the plain curious can pop into any one of the tents and, perhaps, come away with pieces that are not only beautiful, but easy on the pocket as well. In keeping with its tagline "an affordable art fair," Art In The Park has capped its prices at P30,000. The majority of the pieces, however, are pegged at way less than this ceiling price.

Art In The Park, a project of the Museum Foundation of the Philippines, whose programs support the National Museum and its network, had its beginnings in 2006. With just three tents and 12 exhibitors then, the number of participants has grown over time. This year, Art In The Park will have more than 40 exhibitors, showcasing a trove of works â€" paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs â€" from artists that range from the established, the emerging, and the new. With a diverse and impressive selection of galleries, art groups, and fine arts schools, the line-up of participants this year will include, among others, Tin-Aw Art Gallery, Avellana Art Gallery, Art Verite, FEATI, and TutoK. For the first time, as well, the National Museum will have its own space, giving its staff the opportunity to show off their own artistic talents.

Visitors who have frequented Art In The Park know to look forward to installations in the park grounds or special exhibits mounted by guest artists. In the past, visitors have marveled at Leeroy New's surreal balete tree and, one year, engaged with his playful aliens; they have been intrigued by the ghostly swings of Lea Lim hung in an archway from the branches of trees, and charmed by the witty scrap metal sculptures of Pete Jimenez. Welcoming visitors to the park this year will be surreal pieces from acclaimed Bacolod artist Charlie Co. Leeroy New embarks on another special project, showcasing his wearable sculpture. And, like last year, in conjunction with the art fair, establishments around the park will also host their own events, with, this time, an exhibit of Kim Atienza's personal collection of paintings at The Picasso nearby.

Silverlens will be located at Booth H
February 18, 2012 (Saturday)
2pm- 12mn
Jaime Velasquez Park, Salcedo Village, Makati City

Image: Isabel "Pepper" Roxas, Notecards, 2011

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MaARTe 2011: A Contemporary Arts & Crafts Fair

ART FLOOD 2011: 3-Day Art Sale

October 21 to 22, 10am to 6pm and October 23, 9am to 3pm
SLab and Silverlens Gallery
2/F YMC Building, 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City

MaARTe 2011 is an exhibition and sale of some of the finest artisanal works in the country. On its second year, the event will showcase contemporary and antique jewelry, decorative and functional pottery, clay sculptures, glass and metal works, fashion accessories, and home accents, all crafted locally from indigenous materials.

MaARTe 2011 is organized by the Museum Foundation of the Philippines to raise funds for programs that benefit art and culture in general and the National Museum in particular.

Happening alongside MaARTe 2011 is Silverlens Gallery's ART FLOOD 2011. ART FLOOD is a 3-day art sale where galleries and collectors sell modern and contemporary artworks. 

On its third year, ART FLOOD benefits Sagip Buhay Medical Foundation Lupus Fund for the patients of the Philippine General Hospital.

MaARTe and ART FLOOD will run from October 21 to 23 at the SLab – Silverlens Gallery, 2/F YMC Building, 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City. From Friday to Saturday, sale hours are 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and on Sunday, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm.

So spend an exciting few hours this weekend at the SLab – Silverlens Gallery and see our evolving heritage: arts and crafts produced in time-honored traditions and contemporary pieces inspired by them!

You can download the flyer from here (2.7Mb).

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WET by Neil Oshima @ Silverlens Gallery

WET by Neil Oshima

A Roundtable Discussion on Digital vs. Film with Neal Oshima · Sat , June 25, 4-6pm , Silverlens Gallery

Working in photography for the good part of three decades, respected photographer Neal Oshima has witnessed the transition from analog film to digital technology. He now invites you to sit in and join a discussion on DIGITAL vs. FILM. Express what you think and ask what you want to know. Along with Neal, several artists and personalities will be part of the roundtable. Join us at Silverlens Gallery on Saturday, June 25, 4-6pm.

This event is free of charge. RSVP call 8160044 or email manage@silverlensphoto.com.

WET by Neal Oshima runs simultaneously with Postlocal, 2011 curated by Isa Lorenzo featuring Gaston Damag, Pow Martinez and Lynyrd Paras at SLab and Assemblage: Project 3 by Julius Clar at 20SQUARE. All shows will run until June 25.

Words: Jel Tordesillas; Image: Neal Oshima, La Mesa Dam, 2008

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SIX6 @ Silverlens Gallery

SIX6, curated by Isa Lorenzo

with Frankie Callaghan, Wawi Navarroza, Neal Oshima, Rachel Rillo, Steve Tirona and Denise Weldon

November 24, 2010, Wednesday

6-9pm

Silverlens Gallery is turning SIX!

We are celebrating our anniversary with a Photography show by SIX artists - Frankie Callaghan, Wawi Navarroza, Neal Oshima, Rachel Rillo, Steve Tirona and Denise Weldon. SIX6 is curated by Silverlens' Director, Isa Lorenzo.

Susan Sontag's treatise 'On Photography' was the seminal text on photography theory. Published in 1973, it considered the relation of photography to art, to conscience and to knowledge. But it considered a time before digital images, computers, and Photoshop. The medium then was film. The last twenty years have seen further democratization of photography through post-production and digital tools. Today, photography is considered in relation to imagination and fantasy.

The photographers selected for this exhibition at Silverlens Gallery, it's forty-first in its six years, are artists who have had landmark solo exhibitions in our short history. They are artists who continue to work within the multi-tasking framework of one who takes and makes photographs. They all straddle the line between film and Photoshop, using the media freely as necessary to create images that are less truthful to the eye, but more in connection with created scenery.

The instruction, the theme of this show if you will, was taken from the first page of the first chapter of Sontag's text: "to collect photography is to collect the world". The images that came back paralleled the photographer as traveler. The traveler who puts a camera between his eye and his landscape, but documenting not the place, but the space and the feel framed by his viewfinder. "The photographer as someone in perpetual movement, someone moving through a panorama of disparate events", Sontag calls it. There are urban landscapes, imagined interiors and silhouetted exteriors, rural metaphors, and signifiers of human intervention.

Frankie Callaghan lights his nightscapes with a mixture of available and strobe lights. He sets up the found, like a hunter setting up light traps for his camera, his is a meticulous and repetitive process. For Six, we see a strip of four photographs. Beginning with a water village, an informal settlement of squatters; transitioning to other homes: a series of stacked concrete bunkers with lights beaming from open windows, a dwelling under a city bridge; ending with a green earth landscape. Read from left to right, it is a series on human habitation and altered landscapes of a developing country. Read from right to left, it is a series of how light has changed our consumption of the night.

Steve Tirona, the rock star, is unpredictable. Warming up the show, he brings to Six an urban kaleidoscope in fading colors of a chromogenic print. Titled with references to surf culture and drug use, his work brings a freedom to the show that reminds us that photography is a lot about "democratizing all experiences by turning them into images" (Sontag).

Rachel Rillo is concerned with form and material. Her photographs talk to drawings in the way that concrete sings to architects. She uses her photographs alternately as wallpaper, windows, or buildings, and pairs them with a black erasure where the skies or the interiors should be. She called these `Metaspaces'. They are unreal; but like a good hit, psychedelic and celebratory.

Denise Weldon is interested in quiet. Her personal work has always been about finding the spaces in between life's daily grind, and harvesting the good out of them. This she manages to do in Six. Standing in a place where there is much foot traffic, whether a train station, an airport, or a bus stand, we don't know. But we do know that people are moving quickly over a hard surface at a fast pace; and they appear bouncing or dancing, purposefully. And she is quietly shooting them.

Neal Oshima has been taking photographs for a long time. He is best known for his books, and his alternative process cyanotypes and kallitypes of Philippine textiles and traditional clothing. He likes to play with processes and materials. Constantly pushing the boundaries of photography, he was an early adapter to the digital image. In Six, he photographs water, specifically a river, and makes pseudo-rorschachs with the images in Photoshop. These are not blots, they are solid in his frame: suggesting anatomy, leaning to form, pointing to motion. He calls the series "riverrun", after the first word of Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Like the Irish author's work, Oshima's is an experiment in fiction.

Wawi Navarroza is a chameleon. She is whoever you want her to be. The universal appeal of this artist lies in her visual ability to crack the obvious. She `returns to landscapes' in this show, creating monuments of remembrance and markers of the deliberate—a white sheet over a home's furnishings to remember a typhoon's destruction, a bed of fuschia bougainvilla at the height of summer. X marks her spot, suggesting a return to home.

Not to be taken as a landscape show, but a show of the specific concerns of each artist, the emphasis is on space. For after all, it is the space within the created frame that is burned it, filled, or erased.

-Curator's Notes by Isa Lorenzo

SIX6, the Silverlens Gallery Anniversary Show with Frankie Callaghan, Wawi Navarroza, Neal Oshima, Rachel Rillo, Steve Tirona and Denise Weldon, Curated by Isa Lorenzo opens with Year of Glad by Hanna Pettyjohn; and The Easter Bunny, just as charming and just as fake by Nikki Luna.

Image: Neal Oshima, riverrun 3, 2010

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Art Flood 2010

A Heritage Pilgrimage

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Politics - Pinoy Style 4 @ Silverlens Gallery

Museum Foundation of the Philippines, Inc.
Lecture : 4th of the series on "Politics - Pinoy Style"
Title : "The Crisis of hardship and challenge of Modernity"
With Guest Lecturer : Mr. Randy David
When : Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Time : 6:30 pm
Venue : Silverlens Gallery, 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City

Fees
MFPI Members - P100.00
Non-members - P200.00
Students - P50.00

In this lecture, Prof. Randy David proposes a way of looking at the governance problems of our society by linking those to the challenge of modernity. He will try to show that many, if not all, of these problems are moral manifestations of the difficult and often confusing transition to modernity that every society has to confront at one time or another - rather the symptoms of an accursed condition from which there are no other cure but to find a messiah in our midst.

For more information, inquiries and reservations, please call Museum Foundation Office at telephone number 404-2685 and look for Elvie Magpayo or Mae de Leon. Or send text message at 0928-503-9392 c/o Elvie. Or call Flor Cortez at 722-9073 , or Tonie Bautista at 810-6912.

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Malikmata by Mark Orozco Justiniani

Malikmata by Mark Orozco Justiniani

February 19, Friday

6-9pm

Celebrated painter, Mark Orozco Justiniani, veers his latest work away from the medium he has long been associated with and instead takes it to the world of sculpture where corners and frames cannot bind. This world, entitled Malikmata, is one where night and day converge, and folklore and reality abandon their distinction.

Justiniani's keen interest in Filipino society and tradition takes the sculptural route to present Filipino folklore in a form that is multidimensional, concrete and tangible. Not only do the eyes find the splendor of the earth as the sun sets and shadows creep in; this inbetween too awakens the other four senses, and at the same time stirs the imagination. Meant to heighten every sensation, Malikmata, Justiniani explains, involves a lot of ` "looking through" with peepholes and lenses with several angles and different vantage points'. With viewers' participation, the world Justiniani creates is sculptural commentary infused with physical interaction.

Malikmata reveals the creatures of the night, from the fireflies and spiders that lurk in our backyards to those monsters that haunt our dreams. Taking us into the world where what is real and unreal coexist, Justiniani presents a tikbalang who no longer tricks people into getting lost in the forest it guards; a manananggal who discovers the worlds her two halves occupy are one and the same; and an Agtayabun, the man-bird that arbitrates between the realms of the divine and the bestial, who has sided with the latter and allowed chaos to reign. Thought to be lost in modern consciousness, these creatures of folklore defiantly linger and taunt us to surrender to our darkest nightmares.

With sculptural representations manifest of a society that often combines rationality and mysticism, religion and folklore, fact and faith, Justiniani's Malikmata is indeed a journey that goes back and forth between realms that are supposed to be distinct. More than confusing our senses, Malikmata questions how we construct reality and define illusion.

Malikmata is in collaboration with Tin-aw Art Management.

Malikmata will be shown alongside STRIP 2010 with Tammy David, Jake Verzosa, Veejay Villafranca at Silverlens Gallery and Saucerful of Secrets by Mariano Ching with Haraya Ching at 20SQUARE, SLab. Mark Orozco Justiniani will have his Artist Talk on March 06, 2010, Saturday, 3-5 pm.

For inquiries, contact Silverlens Gallery at 2/F YMC Bldg. II, 2320 Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati, 816-0044, 0917-5874011, or manage@silverlensph oto.com. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 10am-7pm and Saturdays 1–6pm. www.silverlensphoto .com / slab.silverlensphot o.com.

Words: Bea Davila
Image: Studies for Malikmata by Mark Orozco Justiniani

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Isa Lorenzo's Artist Talk, Quiet, at Silverlens Gallery

Silverlens Gallery invites you to Isa Lorenzo's artist talk, 'QUIET,' this Saturday, November 21 at 3PM. 'QUIET' is a related gallery event of Lorenzo's exhibit, 'RELEASE,' at SLab Gallery's 20Square, made possible by the Japan Foundation and produced during Lorenzo's tenure as Creator-in-Residenc e at Tokyo Wondersite.

Lorenzo's talk, 'QUIET' will be a slide show of Japan pictures and a talk on immersing oneself in frenetic but controlled energy.

The artist reflects on her time in Japan with an observation on her dwellings:

My room has a window, a window in a block of office buildings. I cannot open it. The window building creaks and my air-conditioning hums constantly.

I can't shut if off.

'QUIET' is free of charge but reservations are required. Please contact Leonore Casuga at 816-0044 or email us at manage@silverlensphoto.com.

Isa Lorenzo's RELEASE will run from November 18 to December 05 at SLab's 20Square and will be shown alongside Rachel Rillo's 'GRAIN' at the Silverlens Gallery across the bridge.

Image: Isa Lorenzo, (left) White, 2009, (right) Black, 2009

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Silverlens Gallery Is Looking For A Graphic Designer

Silverlens Gallery is looking for a full time graphic designer with an interest in art and photography to design in-house printed material and monographs (InDesign/Illustrator), to photograph Silverlens/SLab shows, openings and activities for documentation, to do post production photography (Photoshop), to assist with photo shoots and exhibition design, and to maintain our website and e-newsletter (Dreamweaver) ..

Work Hours: t - f 10am– 7pm, sat 1pm-6pm

Please send email of resume with online portfolio link to manage@silverlensphoto.com or call 8160044 / 09052650873.

For more info, Silverlens Gallery is located at 2/F YMC Building 2, Pasong Tamo Extension
Makati City. www.silverlensphoto .com slab.silverlensphot o.com

About Silverlens | SLab

Having gained public recognition in Manila since its inception in 2004, the Silverlens Gallery (SLG) features 8-9 shows a year, representing a mix of emerging and mid-career contemporary Philippine artists, as well as established international artists. Silverlens shows photography and new media.

At the forefront of collecting Philippine art for the Silverlens Foundation, SLG provides consultancy for art collections and acquisitions. As both gallery and art foundation, Silverlens establishes the vital partnership between defining the market and shaping art history.

SLab (Silverlens Lab) is the gallery for Philippine contemporary art showing painting, drawing and sculpture. The two spaces are bridge-linked, the former being a piano warehouse and the latter being the auditorium.

SLab has two galleries, a 120 square meter main space for longer curated shows, and 20SQUARE, a smaller gallery for young artists, for projects the curators are working on, and for collectors and artists consignments.

Silverlens and SLab artists push the boundaries of their medium and are aggressive in their dialogue with a discerning collecting audience. With the professional structure and best efforts of the Silverlens team, our artists are shown locally and internationally through art fairs, gallery collaborations and curatorial projects for their exposure, recall, recognition, and collection.

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Artist Talk: Bea Valdes

Bea Valdes
Artist Talk and Discussion: Lessons from Things
December 13, 2008, Saturday, 3-5pm

On December 13, 2008, Saturday, SLab artist Bea Valdes will be giving a talk and holding an artist discussion afterwards. “As my pieces are made within the workshop setting, my creative experience is a shared process with the artisans that I work with," says Valdes. “I had wanted my talk to focus on the idea of craft in contemporary times, the collective intimacy of creation, and the discovering of Slow Design.”

Bea Valdes' sculpture show Bedtime Stories runs from November 28 to January 3, 2009 at SLab.

Visit SLab at 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City. For more information, call 8160044 / 09052650873, email manage@silverlensphoto.com or visit slab.silverlensphoto.com.

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Mariano Ching 's Recent Work @ 20SQUARE

Mariano Ching

Recent Work

20SQUARE

October 16-November 8

Mariano Ching is first to exhibit at 20SQUARE, the gallery at SLab for smaller shows, curatorial projects, and consignments.

A Monbusho Japanese Grant scholar, Mariano Ching paints and draws macabre portrayals of alternate worlds, most often found solely in the inner recesses of a genius’ imagination. His eye for the surreal and images of childhood monsters and dreamlike characters are original and exude a quiet excellence alluding to maturity. He has shown work in various spaces in Manila, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and France and in 2006, was awarded the highly coveted Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award.

SLab now open!

On October 16, 2008, the Silverlens Group opened SLab, their highly anticipated new gallery with the much-awaited solo show of Patricia Eustaquio, Death to the Major, Viva Minor. SLab was packed, and the bridge held.

Visit SLab at 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City. Silverlens Gallery is showing Isa Lorenzo, 003: The Moro Negatives simultaneously. For more information, call 8160044/09052650873 , email manage@silverlensph oto.com or visit www.silverlensphoto.com and slab.silverlensphoto.com

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Beyond Frame: Philippine Photomedia

Beyond Frame: Philippine Photomedia
28 October - 21 November 2008
UTS Gallery
Level 4, 702 Harris Street
Ultimo Sydney, NSW Australia

Twelve artists push the boundaries of traditional photography and its derivatives moving beyond the frame as a 'filter' to local nuances, historic anchors and site-specificity. This is an astute picture of Philippine contemporary art now.

The first exhibition of Philippine photography and photomedia to be presented in Australia will open at Sydney's UTS Gallery 28 October from 6 - 8 pm. Curated by Gina Fairley, this exhibition will travel the work of twelve artists that push the boundaries of medium and a prescribed imaging of the Philippines in new expressions from video installation, digital banners, site-specific wall-drawing and a kind of third world manipulation of traditional photography.

Featured in the show are:

Poklong Anading **
Ringo Bunoan **
Mario Co **
Lena Cobangbang **
Romina A. Diaz
Christina Dy *
Lani Maestro
Gina Osterloh *
Rachel Rillo *
Steve Tirona **
Norberto Roldan
Gerardo Tan
Tony Twigg
MM Yu

* Silverlens/SLab Represented Artists
** Silverlens Exhibiting Artists

OPENING: Tuesday 28 October from 6 - 8pm
UTS Gallery - Level 4, 701 Harris Street, Ultimo, Sydney
http://www.utsgallery.uts.edu.au/gallery/

PERFORMANCE AND ARTIST / CURATOR TALK
Christina Dy will be creating Running with Scissors (Before), a wall-based work in-situ. A performative work followed by a conversation between the curator and the artist will take place on Friday, 31 October from 1pm

Satellite exhibitions in SLOT by Gerardo Tan in collaboration with David Griggs until 2 November and Tony Twigg opening 3 November.

Beyond frame acknowledges the support of lending institutions: Silverlens Gallery and The Institute d'art Contemporain (IAC) France; the partner venues: La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo and Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila and the satellite venue SLOT, Redfern. Christina Dy's in-situ work is made possible with the support of Silverlens Gallery and UTS.

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Sense-I Photography Workshops @ Silverlens Gallery

Photo 1 - Cameras and Techniques
(5 sessions, starts September 17, Wednesdays, 6-8pm)

Instructor: Johann Espiritu
Fee: P6,500.00

Designed for the beginning photographer, students learn about camera handling and operation, principles of exposure, shutter speed, aperture, focal length, and basic composition and lighting. The course outline includes shooting assignments and critiques, which encourage students to practice photography techniques and to develop confidence behind the lens. There are no prerequisites for this course.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

JOHANN ESPIRITU has had several exhibits, and is currently working on two books which should be out later this year. His work has been displayed in newspapers, magazines, billboards and even featured in limited-edition postage stamps. Two of his photos were named as part of the 200 Best Images of 2006 by Epson Philippines. A lawyer by profession, Johann was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 2001 and to the New York State Bar in 2004.

To register call 8160044 or 09052650873, or email manage@silverlensphoto.com. 50% reservation fee required. Balance due on the first day of classes. All classes are held at Silverlens Gallery, 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City.

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Collecting Photography @ Silverlens Gallery

The Museum Foundation of the Philippines, Inc. invites its members to a Fellowship activity on Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 6pm at Silverlens Gallery.

Isa Lorenzo of Silverlens talks on

Collecting Photography

On view at the gallery are the works of visual artist, Noelle Katigbak Tan.

Rene Barbier wines will be served.

Silverlens Gallery is at 2330 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City.

For inquiry and attendance, please call MFPI office at 404 2685 or 0928 503 9392 and look for Elvie.

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Museum Foundation of the Philippines, Inc.
G/F National Museum of the Filipino People
Valencia Circle, Rizal Park, Manila 1004 Philippines
Telefax: (63-2) 404-2685
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Artist Conversation @ Silverlens Gallery

Artist Conversation
Noelle Katigbak Tan and Rachel Rillo
August 16, Saturday, 3-5pm

Silverlens Gallery presents Noelle Katigbak Tan and Rachel Rillo in conversation about idenity, homecoming, making photographs, and the importance of showing their work in the Philippines on August 16, Saturday, from 3-5pm.

Both born in Manila, Noelle Katigbak Tan and Rachel Rillo moved to the United States, the former in the '80s and the latter in the '90s, to get their fine arts degrees in New York University and the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, respectively. Since then, Tan has had numerous exhibitions in Washington, New York, Baltimore and Beverly Hills. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Corcoran Museum, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and the Creative Artists Agency. Rillo on the other hand, went on to work as a freelance photographer for the television industry in Los Angeles. Her clients included FOX TV, UPN, CBS and NBC. Now based in Manila, Rillo has had two exhibitions in Silverlens Gallery. Her last show entitled Manila was recently short listed in the 2008 Ateneo Art Awards.

Noelle Katigbak Tan will be opening her first solo show in Manila on August 14 in Silverlens Gallery. It will run until September 27 and will feature two bodies of work, Untitled and Drawing.

Visit Silverlens Gallery at 2/F YMC Bldg. 2, 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City, 816-0044, 0905-2650873, manage@silverlensph oto.com. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 10am–7 pm, Saturday 1–6pm. www.silverlensphoto.com.

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Wawi Navarroza named ACC-SLF Fellow for 2008

Asian Cultural Council-Silverlens Foundation Fellowship Grant 2008
Wawi Navarroza

Silverlens Foundation is pleased to present their first grantee for the Asian Cultural Council-Silverlens Foundation Fellowship Grant. Wawi Navarroza is a visual artist working with photography. She has had two award-winning solo exhibitions: Polysaccharide: The Dollhouse Drama (2005) and Saturnine: A Collection of Portraits, Creatures, Glass and Shadow (2007), which won last year's Ateneo Art Awards. Outside the Philippines, Navarroza has exhibited in Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore, Australia, Russia and The Netherlands.

The ACC-SLF Grant will allow Navarroza to take the General Studies Program in Photography in the International Center for Photography in New York in 2009.

Since 2006, SLF has been accepting applications from photographers and artists working with photography for acquisition, completion, curatorial and fellowship grants. Complete grants can be viewed at www.silverlensphoto .com. The call for entries for the SLF Grant Program 2009 will be announced in October 2008.

Visit Silverlens Foundation 2/F YMC Building 2, 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati. Hours are from 10am to 7pm Mondays to Fridays and 1pm to 6pm on Saturdays. For more information, call 8160044, email manage@silverlensph oto.com or go to www.silverlensphoto .com.

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Soaplands by Christina Dy @ CCP

Soaplands
Christina Dy

Opening reception on July 25, Friday, 6pm

Pasilyo Vicente Manansala (2/F hallway)
Cultural Center of the Philippines
CCP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Pasay City

At 6pm on July 25, Friday, Christina Dy will be opening her solo show Soaplands at the 2/F Hallway (Pasilyo Vicente Manansala) of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. The show will run from July 25-August 30, 2008. Gallery hours are 10am-6pm daily except Mondays and holidays. Admission is free.

For more information on works by Christina Dy, contact Silverlens Gallery at 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City. 816-0044, 0905-265-0873, manage@silverlensph oto.com. www.silverlensphoto.com

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Counter-Photography and Swarm in the Aperture

Counter-Photography and Swarm in the Aperture
Guided Tour by Silverlens Director Isa Lorenzo

New schedule:
2pm, July 20, Sunday

Meet at the 4/F elevator lobby, 1:45pm
North Wing, Museum of the Filipino People
Rizal Park, Ermita, Manila

Limited slots available. RSVP 8160044

Join Isa Lorenzo as she gives a guided tour of two current shows at the National Museum -- Counter-Photography presented by the Japan Foundation and the Japanese Embassy, and Swarm in the Aperture curated by National Museum Curator Patrick Flores.

In it, Lorenzo will discuss the history of contemporary Japanese photography, of which the Japanese show is packed with fine examples, both in content and quality. She will also be giving a brief introduction on the infancy of photography in the Philippines.

For more information, contact Silverlens Gallery at 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City, 816-0044, 0905-265-0873, manage@silverlensph oto.com. www.silverlensphoto .com.

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BenCab's Related Images Exhibit @ Silverlens Gallery

RELATED IMAGES
BenCab
Silverlens Gallery
6pm on May 31, Saturday

Silverlens Gallery invites everyone to the opening of
Related Images at 6pm on May 31, 2008. Related Images
is an exhibit of photographs and drawings on
photographs by National Artist Benedicto Cabrera or
BenCab. The exhibit will run until July 5, 2008 and is
supported by Epson Philippines.

Accompanying Related Images is a an artist talk and
drawing installation by BenCab on June 28, Saturday,
from 3-4pm, as well as the book launch of “BenCab:
Nude Drawings,” also on June 28, Saturday, from 4-5pm.

Visit Silverlens Gallery at 2/F YMC Bldg. 2, 2320
Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City, 816-0044,
manage@silverlensphoto.com. Gallery hours are Monday
to Friday 10am–7pm, Saturday 1–6pm.
www.silverlensphoto.com

SILVERLENS GALLERY IS AT BOOTH C03 OF THE HONG KONG
ART FAIR 08, MAY 14-18, 2008

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