2007 Ateneo Art Awards: Names of Short-listed Artists Announced

2007 ATENEO ART AWARDS GLOBAL/VERNACULAR:
NAMES OF SHORT-LISTED ARTISTS ANNOUNCED

The Ateneo Art Gallery, the country's premier museum
of modern Philippine art, together with Metro
Society, Y Style of the Philippine Star, Power
Plant Mall, Rockwell Land and Smart Gold, is proud to
announce the short-list for the 2007 Ateneo Art
Awards:

Lyle Buencamino for "A Bowtie for John Lyle," Mag:net
ABS, 4 - 31 July 2006.

Bembol dela Cruz for "Measures," Finale Art Gallery,
15 February - 6 March 2007.

Racquel de Loyola for "7a*11d International
Festival," Xpace, Toronto, Canada, 27 October 2006.

Nona Garcia for "Girls Will Not Be Girls," Art Center,
SM Megamall, 3 - 15 August 2006.

Nona Garcia for "Strange Familiarity, " West Gallery,
SM Megamall, 19 - 31 October 2006.

Winner Jumalon for "Untitled Stills," Blanc Gallery,
16 February - 9 March 2007.

Wawi Navarroza for "Saturnine: A Collection of
Portraits, Creatures, Glass & Shadow," silverlens
Gallery, 18 January - 17 February 2007.

Yasmin Sison for "Unmade," Mag:net Paseo, 9 - 27 May
2006.

Jay Ticar for "Frangible Armor Piercing Inside a
Single Round Bolt Action Bull Barrel," Mag:net
Katipunan, 17 February - 6 March 2007.

Mac Valdezco for "Small Complete Units," Avellana Art
Gallery, 14 April - 19 May 2007.

Jevijoe Vitug for "Capitali-Sing, " Finale Art Gallery,
8 - 27 March 2007.

MM Yu for "Thoughts Collected, Recollected, " Finale
Art Gallery, 19 April - 8 May 2007.

This marks the first time that an artist appears on
the short-list twice, with Garcia been recognized for
two different exhibitions in the same year. De la
Cruz, Navarroza, Ticar and Vitug were short-listed for
the Awards last year, while Valdezco was previously
short-listed in 2005.

The short-list was selected by the 2007 Ateneo Art
Awards Jury after going through over one hundred
nominations. Each artist, a Filipino citizen, 35 years
or under by 31 May 2007, was nominated for a solo or
group exhibition in any public venue held between 2
May 2006 and 1 May 2007.

From the short-list, the jury deliberated on 20 June
2007 to determine the three recipients of the Awards.
The winners will then be announced on 8 August 2007 at
a formal ceremony at the Rockwell Tent following "2007
Ateneo Art Awards: Global/Vernacular, " an exhibition
of the works of the short-listed artists at Power
Plant Mall from 2 - 7 August 2007.

Global/Vernacular is recognition and credence,
acknowledging Philippine art has its own nuances yet
believing it moves beyond local context to reverberate
cross-culturally. It also calls attention to the
expansion of the Ateneo Art Gallery Studio Residency
Grant, the only program of its kind organized by a
Philippine cultural institution. 2007 marks the third
year of the Ateneo Art Gallery Studio Residency Grant
in Australia, to be held for the first time in La
Trobe University in Bendigo, as well as the
introduction of the Ateneo Art Gallery Studio
Residency Grant in Singapore with Artesan Gallery.
Each residency provides one of the three Ateneo Art
Awardees with roundtrip airfare, accommodation and a
work studio for three weeks, an allowance, as well as
an invitation to exhibit at their respective host
venues.

Visit http://gallery. ateneo.edu for updates on the
Ateneo Art Awards.

For further inquiries on 2007 Ateneo Art Awards:
Names of Short-listed Artists Announced, please
contact Clarissa Chikiamco, 2007 Ateneo Art Awards
Project Coordinator, at 426-6488 or at
cchikiamco@ateneo. edu.