This July @ Boston Art Gallery

Terra Nuova by ERWIN LEAÑO
pensiEve by NINEL CONSTANTINO
BOSTON GALLERY
11 – 31 July 2009

July shows at Boston Gallery:
Works by Erwin Leaño, Ninel Constantino

Boston Gallery will be featuring two simultaneous solo exhibitions from July 11 to 31, 2009: Terra Nuova, a collection of recent semi-abstract landscapes by Erwin Leaño (Upper Gallery) and pensiEve, Ninel Constantino's second one-woman show of figurative paintings in oil on canvas (Lower Gallery).

Terra Nuova unveils Erwin Leaño's recent landscapes in oil on canvas: desolate and uninhabited territories that veer towards abstraction in their representations of land and sky. Leaño's palette remains colored yet muted: capturing the nuances of dusk and dawn in uncharted lands. This is a progression of his works from the artist's last solo show.

Erwin Catral Leaño holds a degree in Painting from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts in Diliman. Terra Nuova is his 17th one-man exhibition.

pensiEve, Ninel Constantino's second one-woman exhibition, is a collection of figurative, almost illustrative, paintings serving as an “ode to young women's memories”, as the artist puts it. A play on the words 'pensive', 'sieve' and ‘Eve’, the title expresses her style of recollection and rumination on the “sum of our moments” and our “days of dialogue with the sun of childhood, and dusk -- when shadows merge with the long, damp night.” Constantino merges memory with motifs from childhood games and activities, conjuring whimsical yet sober symbols of self.

Ninel Constantino is a faculty member of the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts (UP CFA) and a designer for the Mind Museum of the Bonifacio Art Foundation. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design from the UP CFA. Her first solo exhibition, Buntong Hininga, was also unveiled at Boston Gallery in 2008.

Terra Nuova and pensiEve will open on July 11 (Thursday) and will run up to the 31st of July at Boston Gallery, #72 Lantana Street, Cubao, Quezon City. For inquiries, contact the gallery at 7229205.