26 June - 24 July 2021
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James Clar
Silverlens, Manila
A collection of works that analyze the experience of space (both real and virtual) and how the outside world influences inner identity. The world went into a period of mass transition, and on top of that the artist relocated from New York to Manila (in the middle of the pandemic). Accordingly, the works span observations and cultural remnants and experiences from the USA and the Philippines.
26 June - 24 July 2021
Threshold
Luis Antonio Santos
Silverlens, Manila
A threshold demarcates space. It signifies a boundary, yet doubly exists as an indicator of the point at which something begins to change. We use “threshold” to measure the very limit of things like pain, temperature, longing, rooms. Similarly, the imagery Luis Antonio Santos utilizes for Threshold stands in as marks. The subjects of the work themselves are liminal spaces, enclosed in a constant sort of in-betweenness, delineating one state from another: the pause before a change.
26 June - 24 July 2021
Volume
Micaela Benedicto
Silverlens, Manila
Micaela Benedicto’s latest exhibition, Volume, extends the artist and architect’s exploration of the spatial dimensions of memory and loss. Working at the intersection of photography and sculpture, Benedicto exploits the alchemical properties of metal and paper to construct pieces that register never-to-be-completed processes of becoming and ruination.
16 June - 19 June 2021
Art Basel OVR: Portals
I-Lann Yee
Curated By Christina Li, Magali Arriola, and Larry Osseih-Mensah
Curated By Christina Li, Magali Arriola, and Larry Osseih-Mensah
Online at Art Basel
I-Lann Yee & Collaborators: Borneo Heart offers a shared platform and a site of exchange for the peoples of tanah (land) and air (water/sea), prompting us to reflect on home and distance, power and representation, love and community.
19 May - 23 May 2021
Art Basel Hong Kong 2021
Various Artists
Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
SILVERLENS is pleased to be participating in Art Basel Hong Kong in three ways: on-site in Hong Kong, with a joint booth with Rossi & Rossi; the fair’s Online Viewing Room; and our own website, where all the pieces are available for viewing. The works represent diversity in practice and a playfulness with materials that the gallery has been championing since it was founded in 2004.
14 May - 19 June 2021
A Lonely Picket in the Balcony
Leslie de Chavez
Silverlens, Manila
A diverse artist by practice, Leslie de Chavez features paintings, sculptures, and installations in his latest show. In keeping with his socio-political oeuvre, these works investigate the struggles and inequalities faced by the marginalised – victims of systemic injustice, brought about by political indulgences.
14 May - 19 June 2021
Flower Moon
Kitty Taniguchi
Silverlens, Manila
Silverlens is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Kitty Taniguchi. The show called Flower Moon continues the artist’s exploration of imagery revolving around personal mythologies set in landscape.
05 May - 15 May 2021
Art Fair Philippines 2021 at Silverlens
Various Artists
Curated By Isa Lorenzo and Rachel Rillo
Curated By Isa Lorenzo and Rachel Rillo
Silverlens, Manila
SILVERLENS is pleased to participate in the ninth edition of Art Fair Philippines with eight capsule exhibitions. In addition to presenting these collections in the event’s online portal, the shows will be installed from 5 through 10 May 2021 at Silverlens’ Makati location. A selection of thirty-six artists will be presented in groups of four or five each.
02 May - 30 May 2021
Borneo Heart
I-Lann Yee
Sabah International Convention Centre, Kota Kinabalu
Borneo Heart presents the work of Kota Kinabalu-born and based artist Yee I-Lann, made in collaboration with weavers, filmmakers, dancers, other fellow creative producers and friends. It offers a shared platform and a site of exchange for the peoples of tanah (land) and air (water/sea), and for traditional and contemporary art practices. Borneo Heart celebrates the possibility of creating new spaces, aesthetic languages and shared ideas through conversation and collaboration.
29 March - 03 April 2021
Art Dubai 2021
James Clar, Nicole Coson, Pio Abad
Art Dubai, Dubai International Financial Centre, UAE
SILVERLENS is pleased to participate in the fourteenth edition of Art Dubai. For this occasion, the gallery is presenting a small but diverse collection of works by three of its represented artists: James Clar, Pio Abad, and Nicole Coson.
20 March - 24 April 2021
Striking Affinities
Santiago Bose
Curated By Patrick Flores
Curated By Patrick Flores
Silverlens, Manila
SILVERLENS is pleased to present Striking Affinities, a solo exhibition by Santiago Bose. This show, curated by Patrick Flores, marks the second cycle of the three-part project planned for the late artist; the first instalment, Bare Necessities occurred in 2019.
26 February - 27 March 2021
Tonight the Air is Warm
Wawi Navarroza, I-Lann Yee, Nicole Coson
Curated By Tolla Duke Sloane
Curated By Tolla Duke Sloane
Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK
Tonight the Air is warm brings together a collection of vibrant and diverse photography, print, and video works by nine artists from Southeast Asia. This exhibition is curated by Tolla Duke Sloane and features Yee I-Lann, and Wawi Navarroza.
23 February - 07 March 2021
South South Veza
Martha Atienza, Norberto Roldan, Pow Martinez
South South Platform
We are proud to announce our participation in SOUTH SOUTH, a new innovative online art platform for those invested in the Global South. For the initiative’s inaugural event, we will be presenting works by Martha Atienza, Norberto Roldan, and Pow Martinez.
11 February - 13 March 2021
Exoskeleton
Nicole Coson
Silverlens, Manila
Nicole Coson returns for her second solo exhibition at Silverlens with 'Exoskeleton', an extension of her recent thesis presentation at the Royal College of Art in London. These new works, produced during the pandemic, respond to society’s sudden shift from public to private.
11 February - 13 March 2021
Flux
Frank Callaghan
Silverlens, Manila
Frank Callaghan returns to Silverlens for a solo exhibition entitled ‘Flux’, his seventh with the gallery. In these new photographs, Callaghan desists from his previous rule of passive observation, instead exploring disruption by intervening restful scenes to encourage disarray.
20 January - 31 January 2021
S.E.A. Focus
Gregory Halili & Pow Martinez
Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore
For our second consecutive S.E.A. Focus entry, we are presenting a dual presentation by Gregory Halili and Pow Martinez, in both the fair's digital and physical offerings.
09 January - 05 March 2021
Substrata
Gina Osterloh
EPOCH Gallery
SUBSTRATA is in collaboration with the Los Angeles Museum of Art (LAMOA). The pavilion was built by Alice Könitz (LAMOA). The context created by Peter Wu+ (EPOCH).
09 January - 06 February 2021
spiritual thug lyf
Gene Paul Martin
Silverlens, Manila
Gene Paul Martin returns to SILVERLENS with 'spiritual thug lyf', a solo exhibition by the contemporary artist that collapses the boundaries of abstraction, figuration, and landscape genres.
09 January - 06 February 2021
Considered Gestures
Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Gina Osterloh, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Maria Taniguchi, Lee Aguinaldo, Jose Joya, Arturo Luz, Fernando Zobel
Curated By Yael Buencamino
Curated By Yael Buencamino
Silverlens, Manila
A group exhibition curated by Yael Buencamino, 'Considered Gestures' forges a partnership between the modern and the contemporary by featuring eight Philippine artists from two distinct generations.
05 December - 23 December 2020
In Medias Res
Hanna Pettyjohn
Silverlens, Manila
'In Medias Res' by Hanna Pettyjohn presents new paintings from Anastomosis and sculptures that were completed only very recently. These new pieces heavily reference her past works, and are replete with familiar memories and experiences.
05 December - 23 December 2020
Navigating the Abstract
Dina Gadia
Silverlens, Manila
'Navigating the Abstract' features a range of Pop-inflected paintings and conceptual texts by Dina Gadia that explore the ambiguity of representation through image and language.
05 December - 23 December 2020
Glass Horizon
Gregory Halili
Silverlens, Manila
In 'Glass Horizon', Halili continues his practice of painting on capiz shells with eleven new miniature oil pieces.
28 October - 31 October 2020
Art Basel Online Viewing Room: 20c - Pacita Abad: Masks and Spirits
Pacita Abad
Art Basel Online Viewing Room
SILVERLENS is pleased to participate in the latest iteration of Art Basel’s Online Viewing Rooms, OVR:20c, with a solo presentation of works by the late Pacita Abad. On this occasion, we present four large-scale trapunto paintings from Abad's celebrated series, Masks and Spirits.
17 October - 21 November 2020
Masks and Spirits
Pacita Abad
Silverlens, Manila
An internationally prominent series, seven of these Masks and Spirits works currently hang in the eleventh edition of the Berlin Biennale; three are in the collection of the Tate London. After decades of travel, we feel very privileged to share in the tremendous honour of hosting these trapunto paintings within our own gallery space.
17 October - 21 November 2020
Ziggurat
Norberto Roldan
Silverlens, Manila
The pieces Roldan displays in this exhibition were salvaged from the fire that ravaged Green Papaya, where he stored a majority of his oeuvre; the artist has also since constructed three new installations, which he will debut in this exhibition.
17 October - 21 November 2020
Apothecary: Prelude
Yvonne Quisumbing
Silverlens, Manila
In the gallery's Front Room, Quisumbing presents a new collection of works from her APOTHECARY series: ten portraits on three-dimensional surfaces, featuring local plants that treat women's ailments during conception, birth and recovery after birth.
12 October 2020
Remember This House
Pio Abad
Kilburn High Road and Burton Road, London
Remember this House, is the first permanent public artwork by leading British-Filipino artist Pio Abad. It takes the form of two murals on Kilburn High Road and Burton Road that are inspired by vanitas still life paintings.
17 September - 10 October 2020
Collectors Plus
Chati Coronel, Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Dina Gadia, Nona Garcia, Geraldine Javier, Lou Lim, Pow Martinez, Wawi Navarroza, Bernardo Pacquing, Yvonne Quisumbing, Maria Taniguchi, James Brown, Louie Cordero, Mariano Ching, Melvin Culaba, Dennis Gonzales, Marie Harnett, Maria Justus, Arturo Sanchez Jr., Julião Sarmento, Yasmin Sison, Rosemarie Trockel
Silverlens, Manila
Collectors Plus is a group exhibition that features a selection of contemporary works completed in the last twenty years, mainly by Philippine artists. Culled from prominent collectors living in Manila and Singapore, the pieces in this show range in style, subject, and medium – all boasting individuality.
17 September - 10 October 2020
some recent (& disrupted) projects
Gary-Ross Pastrana
Silverlens, Manila
In what the artist refers to as ‘a gathering of fragments’, Pastrana will present a few pieces from the cancelled Art Basel Hong Kong 2020, which he was scheduled to participate in; a frame of collages he created at the onset of the quarantine; as well as individually framed pieces from his 'collage_a_day_everyday' project.
05 September - 01 November 2020
11th Berlin Biennale
Pacita Abad
Gropius Bau, Berlin
Seven of Pacita Abad's large 'Masks and Spirits' trapunto paintings are included in the 11th Berlin Biennale's Gropius Bau.
01 August - 12 September 2020
Hoarding Fossils in Blankets
Patricia Perez Eustaquio
Silverlens, Manila
Patricia Perez Eustaquio utilises textiles as a vehicle to mirror social, historical, and temporal ruminations. In each of the tapestries she presents, the artist transposes paintings created by Philippine masters through modern processes, consequently altering the meanings and dynamics of the works in reference. Eustaquio invites viewers to reconsider and reinterpret the original compositions, as she begins a dialogue with history and the future from the present.
01 August - 12 September 2020
Dashiell Manley
Dashiell Manley
Silverlens, Manila
Originally planned for the months of March and April, Manley’s premier exhibition was postponed due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Now, Silverlens is presenting a vibrant selection of the young artist’s oeuvre in a format fit for the pandemic: a hybrid show, happening simultaneously between Manila and Los Angeles, where Manley is based.
25 June - 24 July 2020
Little Blue Window
Corinne de San Jose
Silverlens, Manila
Little Blue Window by Corinne de San Jose takes off from the beginning of the lockdown in Manila, straddling in between what once was and what now is. Various aspects of our lifestyles radically transformed during this time, from the ways we communicate to our sudden lack of control. Corinne de San Jose attempts to find peace through her latest experiments with cyanotype prints.
25 June - 24 July 2020
Sustainable Anxiety
Pow Martinez
Silverlens, Manila
Sustainable Anxiety features eight new paintings that offer keen observations on living in this digital age. The artist sheds light on how we have become spectators of our own downfalls as we inch closer to the apocalypse. His animated ghouls and misfits creep onto the white walls of the gallery once again, in this wry yet insightful take on how we live today.
02 June - 20 June 2020
Anticipating the Day
Bernardo Pacquing, Chati Coronel, Corinne de San Jose, Dina Gadia, Eric Zamuco, Frank Callaghan, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Gina Osterloh, Gregory Halili, Hanna Pettyjohn, Martha Atienza, Mit Jai Inn, Nicole Coson, Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Norberto Roldan, Pow Martinez, Renato Orara, Ryan Villamael, Wawi Navarroza, James Clar, Elaine Navas
Silverlens, Manila
Silverlens' first online only show
26 March - 31 May 2020
Art Dubai
Pio Abad, Nicole Coson, James Clar
Online Catalogue
SILVERLENS continues to bring Filipino art into dialogue with the global art landscape by taking part in Art Dubai’s Online Catalogue. The gallery presents important works by contemporary artists Pio Abad, James Clar, and Nicole Coson that challenge history, perception, and technique.
18 March - 25 March 2020
Art Basel Online Viewing Room
Santiago Bose, Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Mit Jai Inn, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Maria Taniguchi, I-Lann Yee
Art Basel Online Viewing Room
SILVERLENS is pleased to present a selection of works at the first iteration of the Art Basel Online Viewing Room.
22 February - 21 March 2020
Searching Sanctuary
Gregory Halili, Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Dina Gadia, Bernardo Pacquing, Pow Martinez, Wawi Navarroza, Ryan Villamael, Mark Andy Garcia, Maya Muñoz, Raffy T. Napay, Elaine Navas, Christina Quisumbing Ramilo, Pope Bacay, Marionne Contreras, Jigger Cruz, Rocelie Delfin, Paolo Icasas, Bree Jonson, Popo San Pascual, Nicole Tee, Liv Vinluan
Curated By Gregory Halili
Curated By Gregory Halili
Silverlens, Manila
Curated by Gregory Halili, this group exhibition comes at the height of the climate crisis, surveying relevant works from 21 contemporary artists.
22 February - 21 March 2020
Performing My Self-archive, My Other Body: An Autobiographical Installation Art Performance, A Work of Institutional Critique
Judy Freya Sibayan
Silverlens, Manila
SILVERLENS is pleased to present Filipino artist Judy Freya Sibayan’s 'Performing My Self-archive, My Other Body: An Autobiographical Installation Art Performance, A Work of Institutional Critique'. This work is a continuation of Sibayan’s ongoing project on her self-archive of 45 years. The conceptual artist intends to engage the audience in conversations on artists and their archives.
22 February - 21 March 2020
A Spectacle of Coming Together
Bernardo Pacquing
Silverlens, Manila
Using numerous mediums ranging from paint to wood, Pacquing’s paintings and assemblages continue todefy common notions of abstraction.
20 February - 23 February 2020
Photography Booth: Wawi Navarroza, Art Fair Philippines
Wawi Navarroza
Booth 11, The Link, Makati
For SILVERLENS' Art Fair Philippines Photography Section presentation, we showcase six of Wawi Navarroza’s captivating self-portraits. Using a tableau format, Navarroza’s self-portraits both reflect the artist’s life and reference art history. Each carefully curated scene touches upon the intersection of identity and culture. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
20 February - 23 February 2020
Noise Field #1b
James Clar
Art Fair Philippines, The Link, Makati
For his special presentation in Art Fair Philippines 2020 in partnership with AC Motors, James Clar creates a laser and liquid installation titled “Noise Field”. Using a laserscanner and a sprinkler system, Clar creates a naturally generated field of visual static.
18 January - 15 February 2020
Cosmic Grounds
Eric Zamuco
Silverlens, Manila
Known for his introspective approach to art, Eric Zamuco continues to transform everyday objects into thought-provoking pieces. At Cosmic Grounds, Zamuco presents new sculptures and assemblages that encourage audiences to consider the wonder of the mundane.
18 January - 15 February 2020
Sudor
Syaiful Garibaldi
Silverlens, Manila
SILVERLENS and ROH Projects (Jakarta) continue their pioneering series of inter-gallery exchange and collaboration with Indonesian artist Syaiful Garibaldi’s solo exhibition, 'Sudor'. Garibaldi closely examines objects from the natural world from a new perspective to create abstract forms of art and takes inspiration from the human body for his latest paintings.
15 January - 19 January 2020
S.E.A. Focus
I-Lann Yee & Mit Jai Inn
Gillman Barracks, Singapore
SILVERLENS is pleased to announce its participation in S.E.A. Focus 2020 (Booth A11) with a dual presentation of new works by Southeast Asian artists Mit Jai Inn and Yee I-Lann. This is the first time Silverlens will be participating in S.E.A. Focus.
07 December 2019 - 11 January 2020
59.59
Corinne de San Jose
Silverlens, Manila
In 59.59, Corinne De San Jose combined her artistic instincts as both sound designer and photographer, trying to make sense of the
duality between sound and silence.
07 December 2019 - 11 January 2020
Equation of State
Martha Atienza
Silverlens, Manila
Featuring new videos and kinetic mangrove plant baths, 'Equation of State' finds Martha Atienza back at Bantayan Island in Cebu, Philippines, documenting how climate change is affecting the island and its inhabitants.
07 December 2019 - 11 January 2020
ZIGAZIG ah!
I-Lann Yee
Silverlens, Manila
In 2018, Yee I-Lann started working with weavers from Keningau in the Borneo interior and Pulau Omadal, Semporna, in the Sulu Sea. ZIGAZIG ah! is her first solo exhibition of new works emerging from these collaborations across her homeland, or tanahair (literally “earth water”).
30 November 2019
Domes Village
Bernardo Pacquing
New Clark City River Zone, Capas, Tarlac, Philippines
SILVERLENS is thrilled to announce that Filipino artist Bernardo Pacquing’s interactive outdoor art installation 'Domes Village' (2019) can now be explored in New Clark City River Zone.
22 November 2019 - 22 March 2020
Singapore Biennale: Every Step in the Right Direction
Gary-Ross Pastrana
LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
Gary-Ross Pastrana’s works revolve around the notion of material: its constitution, wearing down and mutations. For Singapore Biennale 2019, Pastrana explores these stages of transformations in a work that intersects with both theatre and the exhibition space.
07 November - 10 November 2019
West Bund Art and Design
Bernardo Pacquing
Booth N107, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai
For this presentation, Bernardo Pacquing continues to extract pictorial elements from found objects by reinscribing it with motifs of space, color, and line through forms that displace past assumptions and host new meanings.
26 October - 23 November 2019
Dead Horse Bay
Christina Quisumbing Ramilo & Pinky Ibarra Urmaza
Silverlens, Manila
SILVERLENS is pleased to bring together Christina Quisumbing Ramilo and Pinky Ibarra Urmaza in a two-man exhibition Dead Horse Bay. This exhibition will highlight the artists’ similarities– they both lived in New York City and their work are involved with the assembly of found objects and discarded fragments imbued with history.
26 October - 23 November 2019
THE GARDEN
Maya Muñoz
Silverlens, Manila
SILVERLENS is pleased to announce 'THE GARDEN', Maya Muñoz’ third solo exhibition with the gallery. Spanning the gallery’s main space, the exhibition will present fifteen new paintings featuring neon garden and volcanic landscapes.
02 October - 06 October 2019
Frieze London, Woven - Pacita Abad: Immigrant Series
Pacita Abad
Booth W2, Frieze London
SILVERLENS is proud to participate in the Woven Section of Frieze London 2019 with the solo presentation of Pacita Abad’s 'Immigrant Experience' series. This is the first time Silverlens will be participating in Frieze London and the first posthumous exhibition of Pacita Abad’s work in London.
21 September - 19 October 2019
Actants
Mit Jai Inn
Curated By Erin Gleeson
Curated By Erin Gleeson
Silverlens, Manila
Mit extends his homage and playful dissent from tenants of modernism, with rich crossings into the realm and language of textiles and weaving. Actants sees the revered geometry of the grid and its line segments unbound, transformed into threedimensional, pliable modular units the artist refers to as ribbons.
20 September - 27 October 2019
Art Encounters Biennial
Gary-Ross Pastrana
Timișoara, Romania
Gary-Ross Pastrana was among the artists selected to participate in Art Encounters Biennial 2019 in Timișoara, Romania. Featured in the biennial is Pastrana’s ‘After The Fall I’ (2019), a makeshift mechanical structure that uses a rock from the urban environment of Timișoara, slowly descending and falling down to the ground by sheer gravity, to drive a small power generator.
17 August - 14 September 2019
Wawi Navarroza: Self-Portraits & The Tropical Gothic
Wawi Navarroza
Silverlens, Manila
Self-portraits have been a recurring theme in Navarroza's twenty-year practice, but this is the first exhibition focusing solely on the form. Navarroza will be showing eight new pieces alongside three older works from different years, alternating between muse and visual memoir.
17 August - 14 September 2019
Bare Necessities
Santiago Bose
Curated By Patrick D. Flores
Curated By Patrick D. Flores
Silverlens, Manila
Bare Necessities focuses on the impulses of his artistic language and how these are harnessed to produce distinct form, critical discourse, and urgent impulse. The political work of art begins with the gesture of transforming the material of the world.
17 August - 14 September 2019
Noise Field
James Clar
Silverlens, Manila
'Noise Field #1' is James Clar's first solo exhibition in the Philippines and with Silverlens.
13 July - 10 August 2019
They Might Be Giants
Jonathan Ching
Silverlens, Manila
SILVERLENS is pleased to present 'They Might Be Giants', an exhibition of six new large-scale paintings by Jonathan Ching. His third solo exhibition with the gallery, the elements seen in the streets of Manila where Ching grew up are the starting point of this suite of paintings.
13 July - 10 August 2019
Saturation Imbalance
Luis Lorenzana
Silverlens, Manila
In 'Saturation Imbalance', Luis Lorenzana continues to develop new ways of thinking about and working with texture, pattern, and color. While previous exhibits hinted at an artist consciously operating within a tradition while subverting it, this latest series finds him grappling primarily with his own instinct to correct and to make harmonious.
13 July - 10 August 2019
Behold a City + A Paradise Lost
Ryan Villamael
Silverlens, Manila
SILVERLENS is pleased to present selected works by Ryan Villamael from his Art Fair Philippines' Special Projects presentation, 'Behold a City' and solo show, 'A Paradise Lost.'
21 June - 08 September 2019
City Prince/sses
Dina Gadia & Pow Martinez
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
The exhibition 'City Prince/sses' is presented as an imaginary, multiple and complex city, without borders, messy, staggering and creative: an unpredictable laboratory, which is always in motion and being (re)constructed. Visual artists, creators, fashion designers, experimenters, tattooists, musicians: a good fifty artists are presented without any geographical grouping, mostly via new productions and in situ interventions.
01 June - 06 July 2019
Flux
Bea Valdes
Silverlens, Manila
As a world-renowned accessories designer, Valdes has spent the better part of the last 15 years cultivating a body of work obsessed with the idea of permanence, of beadwork so refined, materials so battle-tested, and hands so accomplished that they dare claim immortality. On her second solo exhibition for Silverlens Galleries, the artist pulls back the curtain and in a gesture that betrays both confidence and vulnerability, exposes the fragility of her work and process.
01 June - 06 July 2019
The Quality of Sunlight is a Filter Through Which Our Thoughts and Feelings Pass
Catalina Africa
Silverlens, Manila
SILVERLENS is pleased to present 'The Quality of Sunlight is a Filter Through Which Our Thoughts and Feelings Pass', Catalina Africa’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. This show presents paintings, objects, and video that explore the genre of landscape painting reconfigured into the artist’s unique visual language of patterned abstraction along with a personal narrative of illumination inspired by life near the sea.
27 March - 31 March 2019
Kabinett, Art Basel Hong Kong
Pacita Abad
Booth 1D05, Hong Kong Conventions & Exhibitions Centre
It is Silverlens’ pleasure to present Pacita Abad’s Mask and Spirits series for Art Basel HK’s Kabinett in 2019. Abad’s work offers an account of artistic life, process, and career that materializes the complexity of making art as a woman of color and that tries to recalibrate established accounts of what can be made material in contemporary art history.
27 March - 31 March 2019
Encounters, Art Basel Hong Kong
Mit Jai Inn
Booth EN10, Hong Kong Conventions & Exhibitions Centre
Inspired by Hong Kong, 'Planes (Electric)', channels the nature and context of its immediate marketplace and city. The two-sided, textured, rainbow-bright hanging works and coiling scrolls emit vibrations intended to mimic the city's ever-present light and movement of energy, people and things.
27 March - 31 March 2019
Art Basel Hong Kong
Norberto Roldan, Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Mit Jai Inn, I-Lann Yee, Gina Osterloh, Maria Taniguchi, Chati Coronel, Pow Martinez, Gary-Ross Pastrana
Booth 1D05, Hong Kong Conventions & Exhibitions Centre
This year, Silverlens Galleries unpacks movement. How do we understand moving? As Silverlens continues to grow in size and in programming, this year, we present significant senior and historical artists: Pacita Abad, Norberto Roldan, and Mit Jai Inn; alongside a younger generation of acclaimed artists: Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Yee I-Lann, Maria Taniguchi, Chati Coronel, Pow Martinez, Gina Osterloh, and Gary-Ross Pastrana. Many of these artists’ lives have been shaped by their own movement across the globe in any way, shape, or form.
23 March - 17 April 2019
Continuing Growth
Tessy Pettyjohn
Silverlens, Manila
SILVERLENS is pleased to announce 'Continuing Growth', Tessy Pettyjohn’s first solo exhibition in the gallery. A renowned pioneer of Philippine pottery, Pettyjohn’s ceramic works are often inspired by the flowers and plants in her garden.
23 March - 17 April 2019
Zero Infinite
Chati Coronel, Bernardo Pacquing, Jose Santos III
Silverlens, Manila
The twist is what we are interested in. When does something become art? When do materials rise above their humble parts to become more than their sum? When Pacquing ratchets together hard and soft objects to form impossible but consummate unions; when Coronel paints layers on layers of color and text to reveal a final figure that was there from the beginning; and when Santos builds assemblages into cascading packets of the national psyche.
16 March - 30 June 2019
Unfolding: Fabric of our Life
Norberto Roldan
Curated By Takahashi Mizuki
Curated By Takahashi Mizuki
Centre for Heritage Arts & Textile, Hong Kong
Norberto Roldan was among the selected artists to participate in this thematic exhibition. Known for his practice of re-appropriating found objects into social and political statements, Roldan showcased 12 patadyong (pre-Spanish wrap-around skirt) works re-embellished with fabric lining, embroidery, and Philippine coins.
21 February - 24 February 2019
Special Exhibitions: Ray Albano, Art Fair Philippines
Ray Albano
The Link, Makati
Ray Albano was an important cipher in that precarious phase or threshold of Philippine contemporary art in which the competing discourses of identity, tradition, and modernity sought to constitute what it meant to be contemporary and Filipino amid the push and pull of becoming local and international, of being western and native.
21 February - 24 February 2019
Art Fair Philippines, Photography Boooth
Various Artists
The Link, Makati
Silverlens is pleased to participate in Art Fair Philippines' Photography Section presenting works from various artists.
21 February - 24 February 2019
Special Exhibitions: Ryan Villamael, Art Fair Philippines
Ryan Villamael
The Link, Makati
SILVERLENS is pleased to co-present 'Behold A City' by Ryan Villamael as part of Art Fair Philippines 2019 Special Exhibitions.
16 February - 16 March 2019
+63 | +62
Leslie de Chavez, Geraldine Javier, Agus Suwage, Melati Suryodarmo
Silverlens, Manila
SILVERLENS is proud to present '+63 | +62,' a four-person show of major artists featuring Agus Suwage and Melati Suryodarmo from Indonesia and Geraldine Javier and Leslie de Chavez from the Philippines. This is the first time they will be showing together. Referencing the Philippines’ (+63) and Indonesia’s (+62) country dial code, this exhibition explores how these two next-door countries who are strangers to each other’s cultures, are connected through their own rich art histories.
17 January - 20 January 2019
Taipei Dangdai
Martha Atienza, Corinne de San Jose, Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Dina Gadia, Pow Martinez, Maria Taniguchi, I-Lann Yee, Jhong Jiang-Ze, Tang Jo-Hung
Booth EO3, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Taiwan
SILVERLENS is pleased to present two sequential booth presentations for Taipei Dangdai, a selection of artists from our gallery program from the last fifteen years, and a celebration of gallery collaborations we have fostered.
12 January - 09 February 2019
A Paradise Lost
Ryan Villamael
Silverlens, Manila
For this presentation, Villamael will premiere a new body of work that builds upon his ongoing dialogue with the contentious subject of Philippine History.
12 January - 09 February 2019
Watchfire
Jon Pettyjohn, Tessy Pettyjohn, Shozo Michikawa, Alvin Tan Teck Heng, Joey de Castro
Curated By Tropical Blaze and Boxplot
Curated By Tropical Blaze and Boxplot
Silverlens, Manila
SILVERLENS opened 2019 with 'Watchfire', a group exhibition that brought together five artists who have each made a critical contribution to the development of contemporary ceramics in Asia: Tessy Pettyjohn, Jon Pettyjohn, and Joey de Castro of the Philippines. Shozo Michikawa of Japan, and Alvin Tan Teck Heng of Singapore.
28 November 2018 - 01 January 2019
Shangri-La The Fort Holiday Tree
Ryan Villamael
Shangri-La at The Fort, Manila
In 'Payapang Daigdig,' Ryan Villamael applies his trademark latticework to mirrors, in order to reimagine the Christmas tree as a stark, illuminating, and somewhat jagged object.
24 November 2018 - 28 April 2019
The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
Martha Atienza
QAGOMA, Brisbane
Martha Atienza's 'Our Islands 11°16'58.4 N 123°45'07.0 E' (2017) is part of the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9) in Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). The hugely ambitious APT series brings significant art from across the Asia Pacific to Brisbane. This free contemporary art exhibition presents a unique mix of creativity and cross-cultural insight.
21 November - 22 December 2018
Painting Palettes / Palette Paintings II
Elaine Navas
Silverlens, Manila
It began as a dream by professor, mentor and confidant the late Roberto Chabet: a series of paintings of palettes. And Elaine Roberto-Navas happily obliged, first in 2014 then presently for the exhibition 'Painting Palettes/ Palette Paintings II'. Each palette collected from friends and colleagues turn into artefacts that intimately embodies its possessor.
21 November - 22 December 2018
Ordo Ab Chao
Christina Quisumbing Ramilo, Pam Yan Santos, Yasmin Sison
Silverlens, Manila
The three-woman exhibition 'Ordo Ab Chao', a Latin expression for ‘order out of chaos’ or ‘order from disorder’, dissects the search for order in the creative processes of Christina Quisumbing Ramilo, Yasmin Sison and Pam Yan-Santos while in the state of constant mental and physical disarray.
07 November - 11 November 2018
West Bund Art and Design
Patricia Perez Eustaquio
Booth N105, West Bund Art Centre, Shanghai
In this solo presentation by Silverlens at West Bund Art and Design 2018, visual artist Patricia Perez Eustaquio surveys into the conflicts that emerge in the act of translation and object-making.
01 November - 04 November 2018
Artissima
Norberto Roldan
Torino, Italy
Philippine colonial history is a tale entrenched with years of institutional abuse and corruption. Norberto Roldan’s tapestries subvert power structures and colonial rule, juxtaposing fact and fiction. Roldan’s SILVERLENS presentation for this year’s Artissima is a reflection of a disengagement and democratization of power — power as a force persistently remains, but is appropriated to the wants and desires of the people.
20 October - 17 November 2018
Painting, Differently
Mit Jai Inn, Aditya Novali, Nicole Coson
Curated By Isa Lorenzo
Curated By Isa Lorenzo
Silverlens, Manila
'Painting, Differently' brings together artists who are using paint / pigment as material laid onto a surface. The colors and markings are not representative of anything particular but are statements of medium. The statement is one of labor and repetition. The surfaces are variable, from plexi-glass to jute sack.
20 October - 17 November 2018
Equivalent/s
Frank Callaghan, Corinne de San Jose, Issay Rodriguez, MM Yu, Teo Esguerra
Curated By Rachel Rillo
Curated By Rachel Rillo
Silverlens, Manila
Steering away from the typical photography exhibitions, 'Equivalent/s' pursues the idea and methods of abstraction in the medium that is photography.
18 October - 23 December 2018
Thirteen Artists Awards
Dina Gadia
Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila
The Thirteen Artists Awards is a then-biennial, and now triennial event, founded by the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1970 to give recognition to exemplary artists in the field of contemporary visual art.
18 September - 13 October 2018
Depth of Surface
Heman Chong, Phi Phi Oanh, Donna Ong
Silverlens, Manila
SILVERLENS and FOST Gallery (Singapore) are pleased to announce 'Depth of Surface', a group exhibition marking the first collaboration between both galleries. Hosted by SILVERLENS, 'Depth of Surface' brings together works by Heman Chong (Singapore), Phi Phi Oanh (Vietnam) and Donna Ong (Singapore). Through the artists’ individual treatment of the two-dimensional plane, the show collectively constitutes the access point to investigate their distinctive practices.
18 September - 13 October 2018
How can you jump over your shadow when you don't have one anymore?
Norberto Roldan
Silverlens, Manila
What is the subject of Roldan’s reading? Why is seriality triggered by, and what does it continue to activate? What we encounter in Roldan’s solo exhibitions are the composites of objects that come together through his practiced impulse as an artist known to write and re/write the semantics of indices.
15 September - 11 November 2018
Biwako Biennale
Ryan Villamael
Omihachiman, Shiga prefecture, Japan
Ryan Villamael was among the selected artists to participate in Biwako Biennale 2018, where he presented another iteration of 'Locus Amoenus'.
24 August 2018 - 28 June 2020
Locus Amoenus
Ryan Villamael
Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila
An installation composed of finely cut latticework from replicas of geographical maps, Ryan Villamael's 'Locus Amoenus' is installed at the staircase of the Ateneo Art Gallery.
01 August 2018
Earth Mounds
Bernardo Pacquing
Lubi Plantation, Kopiat Island, Davao
"Earth Mounds" by Bernardo Pacquing is the first installation at the Art Island Project located in the southern Philippines.
07 July - 04 August 2018
Utopia Hasn't Failed Me Yet
Gary-Ross Pastrana
Silverlens, Manila
In this exhibition of new collages, Pastrana's initial plan is to echo aspects of On Kawara's date paintings. He set out to develop his own simplified yet consistent studio practice, manageable to a degree that it can result in a new work everyday and overall projected to be sustainable in the long run (or for as long as he physically can)
07 July - 04 August 2018
Zones
Gina Osterloh
Silverlens, Manila
In 'Zones', Gina Osterloh carries her trademark anti-portrait strategies into the realm of abstract schemata. Dots, dashes, circles, lines, and comma shapes appear inside and outside delineated frameworks that tease the viewer with the possibility of meaning but refuse to indicate precisely how to view them.
05 June - 10 July 2018
Aesthetic Police
Pow Martinez
ROH Projects, Jakarta
ROH Projects, in collaboration with SILVERLENS, is pleased to present Manila-based artist Pow Martinez’ first solo exhibition, 'Aesthetic Police', in Indonesia, an outcome of a month-long residency program at OPQRStudio, Bandung. In this show, Martinez (b. 1983) continues his ongoing aesthetic exploration into the outer limits and intersections of vanity/beauty and ugliness/honesty in and out of context.
02 June - 14 July 2018
Conversation Among Ruins
Patricia Perez Eustaquio
Mind Set Art Center, Taipei
Mind Set Art Center is delighted to present a solo exhibition by Patricia Perez Eustaquio 'Conversation Among Ruins' from 2nd of June to 14th of July 2018. Eustaquio is a multimedia artist, whose practice integrates painting, drawing, textile and sculpture. Taking an object-based perspective, Eustaquio examines ideas of vanity and vanitas, the trivial and the sublime, while also exploring the possibilities and limits of artistic expression through various
forms.
02 June - 30 June 2018
(sounds fading, distant. sounds distant, muted)
Luis Antonio Santos
Silverlens, Manila
SILVERLENS is pleased to announce Luis Antonio Santos’ third solo show with the gallery, '(sounds fading, distant. sounds distant, muted)'. His process in tackling representation constantly changes, but his material, corrugated galvanized iron sheets, remain a constant, becoming a point of discussion and reference in his work.
02 June - 30 June 2018
Constructed by Chance
Gene Paul Martin
Silverlens, Manila
Gene Paul Martin’s studio is a separate structure tucked deep behind a bungalow in Quezon City’s Project 8. The Projects being among the first residential subdivisions built in this sprawling city after the war. The density of street life, hand-in-hand both domestic and difficult, are front and center. Martin, a young artist of 28, presents new paintings about this street life.
28 April - 25 May 2018
Countercurrents
Silverlens, Manila
'Countercurrents' marks the first time these artists will show together. In this exhibition of new works, Garcia and Halili dialogue with each other and one another’s practices, both drawn to the sea
27 March - 31 March 2018
Art Basel Hong Kong
Gabriel Barredo, Chati Coronel, Gregory Halili, Pow Martinez, Wawi Navarroza, Norberto Roldan, Maria Taniguchi, I-Lann Yee, Manuel Ocampo
Booth 1D05, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
On its fifth year in Art Basel Hong Kong, Asia’s premier art fair, SILVERLENS is pleased to present a selection of artists the gallery represents and one guest artist whose work was most recently seen in the Philippine Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
22 March - 21 April 2018
Stoneware Terrain
Jon Pettyjohn
Silverlens, Manila
SILVERLENS is pleased to announce Jon Pettyjohn’s second solo exhibition in the gallery, 'Stoneware Terrain'. In this series of new works, Pettyjohn embarks on a search for his holy grail: whether it be stoneware or porcelain, it has to be a unique material that the potter could mine and directly use from the ground.
22 March - 21 April 2018
Chaos
Pow Martinez, Chih-Hung Liu, Jhong Jiang-Ze, Tang Jo-Hung
Silverlens, Manila
In the spirit of collaboration, SILVERLENS annually invites like-minded galleries around the region for a curatorial program exchange. In the group exhibition 'Chaos', SILVERLENS hosts Mind Set Art Center (Taipei) in Manila with three of their artists Liu Chih-Hung (b. 1985, Taiwan), Jhong Jiang-Ze (b. 1981, Taipei), Tang Jo-Hung (b. 1975, Taipei). They will be joined by SILVERLENS artist Pow Martinez (b. 1983, Philippines). The series of new works exhibit a colorful chaos, creating a dialogue responding to the current events in one’s nation and the turmoil of one’s mind.
10 March - 11 June 2018
21st Biennale of Sydney
Mit Jai Inn & Maria Taniguchi
Sydney, Australia
Maria Taniguchi and Mit Jai Inn were among the artist selected to participate in the 21st Biennale of Sydney, SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium & Engagement.
17 February - 17 March 2018
The Infinite Yes
Chati Coronel
Silverlens, Manila
In this series of large new works, Chati Coronel has assembled a suite of vibrantly colored panels that reference creation myths from around the world and their recognizable leitmotifs: first woman and man; contact with the human and the divine; order out of chaos.
17 February - 17 March 2018
Iris
Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo & Syagini Ratna Wulan
Silverlens, Manila
Silverlens and ROH Projects (Jakarta) continue their pioneering series of inter-gallery exchange and collaboration with the exhibition Iris, the first major presentation of large works by Indonesian artists Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo and Syagini Ratna Wulan in Manila.
13 January - 10 February 2018
I've been hiding in the smallest places
Corinne de San Jose
Silverlens, Manila
'I’ve Been Hiding in the Smallest Places' is Corinne de San Jose’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. The series of schlagmetal on photographs features the artist’s skin, macroscopic and abstracted.
13 January - 10 February 2018
Ugat
Raffy T. Napay
Silverlens, Manila
SILVERLENS is pleased to announce Rafael T. Napay’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, 'Ugat'. He uses vibrant colors in a presentation of tapestries, sculptures, and his largest weave painting to date, at approximately 8 by 42 feet. This large anchor piece stands and creates a landscape in the gallery space, an environment filled with foliage, roots, water, and flora.
02 December 2017 - 06 January 2018
Camouflage
Nicole Coson
Silverlens, Manila
Featuring nine large-scale works accomplished through monotype printmaking, the show captures and reterritorializes camouflage within the ambit of the optical, interrogating its capacity to imitate, blend into, and ultimately subsume reality.
02 December 2017 - 06 January 2018
Horizon
Lou Lim
Silverlens, Manila
For 'Horizon', Lou Lim’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, one may initially suspect that Lim has purposely shifted to painting and took it upon herself to create the single, largest piece she’s made to date: an expansive and monumental 7 x 12 ft. landscape painting with a hazy, idyllic, pastel-hued depiction of an equally expansive sea meeting the sky.
09 November - 12 November 2017
West Bund Art and Design
Gabriel Barredo
West Bund Art Center, Shanghai
Gabriel Barredo's West Bund Art and Design 2017 presentation, 'Adamadame' (2017) is his intricate commentary on the fluidity of gender, especially felt in contemporary times.
26 October - 25 November 2017
Still Life
Patricia Perez Eustaquio
Silverlens, Manila
In Still Life, Eustaquio revisits the idea of art-historical still life works and their implications, alluding to contemporary martyrs of human excess and appetite. She continues exploring materials, objects, and fascination of the impulse to create, consume, and destroy while echoing her past show, Swine (2004), dwelling on appetite and her concerns as a previously avowed vegetarian.
02 September - 05 October 2017
Rituals of Invasion and Resistance (1992 – 2017)
Norberto Roldan
Curated By Patrick D. Flores
Curated By Patrick D. Flores
Jorge B. Vargas Museum, Quezon City
Jorge B. Vargas Museum, in cooperation with Silverlens Galleries presents 'Rituals of Invasion and Resistance (1992 – 2017)' by Norberto Roldan, a survey show exhibiting 25 years of work from 1992 to 2017.
17 August - 16 September 2017
Search/Light
Frank Callaghan
Silverlens, Manila
In 'Search/Light', Frank Callaghan continues his night shooting that has become his signature.
17 August - 16 September 2017
Almost Not
Eric Zamuco
Silverlens, Manila
'Almost Not' contemplates on the thresholds of meaning reached through new associations between objects and their recontextualizations. Here, the principal object being military field gurney stretchers, Eric Zamuco re-imagines their appearance by counter-weighting them with other objects devised from either personal histories or formal transgressions.
13 July - 12 August 2017
Situation Amongst The Furnishings
Dina Gadia
Silverlens, Manila
'Situation Amongst The Furnishings' is Dina Gadia's sixth solo show with the gallery, and her first show of all paintings. Known for her book sized collages that bring together unexpected juxtapositions of vintage comics, text, and popular culture, she ventures bravely and successfully into more complex constructions with Situations.
13 July - 12 August 2017
Techno-Utopian
Pow Martinez
Silverlens, Manila
In his new body of work, 'Techno Utopian', Pow Martinez ponders on the failure of utopian ideals and its purported progress, pitting technology against a theory of the taboo.
07 June - 08 July 2017
a mantle of
Hanna Pettyjohn
Silverlens, Manila
The works on display in “a mantle of,” Hanna Pettyjohn’s solo exhibition at SILVERLENS, enrich a narrative developed in prior shows. Progressing the natural cycle of this exploration has facilitated a series of paintings and sculptures that both dismantle and reinforce what came before.
06 May - 03 June 2017
MEDUSA
Wawi Navarroza
Silverlens, Manila
In 'MEDUSA', Wawi Navarroza looks to stone, and in particular marble, to discuss ideas of landscape, myth and material via the island of Romblon in the Philippines.
06 May - 03 June 2017
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Issay Rodriguez
Silverlens, Manila
Issay Rodriguez takes these silent emotional signifiers of oblivion strewn across the material culture of everyday life into the gallery with utterance into her second solo exhibition at Silverlens.
28 March - 29 April 2017
COUNTERNARRATIVES
Pio Abad
Silverlens, Manila
Pio Abad continues his engagement with Philippine political history, specifically looking at the problematic cultural legacy of the Marcos dictatorship in light of recent attempts to rehabilitate this dark chapter in the nation’s history. In a new body of work, he reconfigures familiar narratives and excavates dismantled iconographies in an attempt to understand the seemingly breath taking pace at which this history has unravelled.
23 March - 25 March 2017
Art Basel Hong Kong
Pio Abad, Gabriel Barredo, Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Gregory Halili, Bernardo Pacquing, Hanna Pettyjohn, Maria Taniguchi, Ryan Villamael, Eric Zamuco, Genevieve Chua
Booth 1D07, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
It is SILVERLENS' 10th year to be part of this landmark fair; joining in the first year it was Art HK, and every year since it has been Art Basel Hong Kong. Silverlens has grown with this fair, and we are pleased to be bringing a selection of ten important artists in different stages of their practice. We have asked each artist to make new work for this special occasion.
14 February - 22 March 2017
Maria Taniguchi
Maria Taniguchi
Silverlens, Manila
This is Taniguchi’s first one-person exhibition in Manila since 2014, and since she won the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award Prize at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai (2015).
14 February - 22 March 2017
Epilogue
Ryan Villamael
Silverlens, Manila
'Epilogue' is comprised of several paper structures growing and spilling out of old books on the victories and defeats of humanity, collected by the artist on numerous trips to antique shops, book sales, and garage sales over the years. The subject is an interest recently piqued by the rapidly shifting political climate over the years.
07 January - 04 February 2017
Echo
Gregory Halili
Silverlens, Manila
Composed of 15 works, Gregory Halili's Echo is a continuation of the artist's exploration of natural materials and one's symbiotic connection with nature.
27 October 2016 - 26 February 2017
Singapore Biennale: An Atlas of Mirrors
Martha Atienza, Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Gregory Halili, Ryan Villamael
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
'Singapore Biennale 2016: An Atlas of Mirrors' draws on diverse artistic viewpoints that trace the migratory and intertwining relationships within the region, and reflect on shared histories and current realities with East and South Asia.
12 September 2016 - 16 November 2014
Some Are Smarter Than Others
Pio Abad
Gasworks, London
Pio Abad employs strategies of appropriation to reveal the social and political implications of objects usually consigned to the sidelines of history. This exhibition comprises newly commissioned sculpture, photographs and printed textiles that reference fine and decorative art objects owned or commissioned by the Marcoses during their rule.
30 August - 04 October 2016
YEE I-LANN: 2005 – 2016
I-Lann Yee
Ayala Museum, Manila
Ayala Museum and Silverlens are pleased to present Yee I-Lann: 2005–2016. A landmark exhibit, this is the first solo show for a Malaysian contemporary artist in the Ayala Museum.
23 June - 11 September 2016
That Mountain is Coming
Patricia Perez Eustaquio
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
'That Mountain is Coming' plays on the tradition of still-life, with a variation around time, fragility and destruction. What the artist immortalises are the residues of the creative process, often found in her studio.
04 June - 02 July 2016
The Way In/The Way Out
Chati Coronel
Silverlens, Manila
Chati Coronel's fascination with human consciousness, in all its myriad permutations and implications, has been a sort of thematic bedrock that buttresses everything she does, both her terra firma and her terra incognita. But 'The Way In/ The Way Out' is probably her most overt exploration.
30 April - 28 May 2016
Anito
Martha Atienza
Silverlens, Manila
Silverlens is pleased to present "Anito," Martha Atienza’s video work that was selected for the Film Sector in the 2016 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong.
18 January - 30 January 2016
Renato Orara
Renato Orara
Silverlens at Artspace@Helutrans, Singapore
The show features works from 'Ten Thousand Things that Breathe', a series of drawings on paper that the artist has been making since 1989.
09 January - 06 February 2016
The Untamed Wall
Gary-Ross Pastrana
Silverlens, Manila
This series of works, done exclusively in the perfunctory manner of cutting and pasting, serve as Gary-Ross Pastrana's envoy to the more deliberate and confined nature of wall-bound works.
26 November - 19 December 2015
No Singing Allowed
Pow Martinez & Jigger Cruz
Silverlens, Manila
Silverlens is pleased to present 'No Singing Allowed', a two-man exhibition by painters Pow Martinez and Jigger Cruz.
29 October - 21 November 2015
Behold A City
Ryan Villamael
Silverlens, Manila
'Behold A City' is Ryan Villamael’s foray into the realm of photography as material and image source for his art. He pushes his métier by tracing his blade along the contours of built heritage pictures, as a way to reclaim what war has lost or what little sense of patrimony has been sacrificed in favor of the vulgar remedies that come with the upkeep of a dysfunctional metropolis aspiring to be modern.
24 September - 24 October 2015
Renato Orara
Renato Orara
Silverlens, Manila
Silverlens is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Renato Orara’s more recent incarnations from the series 'Ten Thousand Things that Breathe', begun in 1989
16 July - 15 August 2015
By Land or By Air
Hanna Pettyjohn
Silverlens, Manila
With 'By Land or By Air', SILVERLENS presents Thirteen Artists Award winner Hanna Pettyjohn’s first show of 2015. The 36 paintings comprise a work about the passage of time as well as all other passages; a migratory mentality known to all who live away from home.
16 July - 15 August 2015
Nothing to See Here There Never Was
Gina Osterloh
Silverlens, Manila
Composed of 14 photographic works and one 16mm film loop, 'Nothing to See Here, There Never Was' defies, exceeds, and often belies expectations. Bodies (or the lack thereof), techniques of viewing, and photographic modernity preoccupy Osterloh’s mind in this exhibition.
10 June - 11 July 2015
The Week Ends The Week Begins
Corinne de San Jose
Silverlens, Manila
'The Week Ends The Week Begins', evenly halved into photography and video sections, with each half broken down further, is hooked on the process and effect of repetition.
10 June - 11 July 2015
Half Full
Bernardo Pacquing
Silverlens, Manila
Bernardo Pacquing distills into aesthetic encounters the sensate experience of quiet observation and work: making and growing things from the simplest of elements. 'Half Full' explores this period of flux in between: the transitional phase where seeds sprout into growths, where cells build up into more complex forms.
07 May - 06 June 2015
Study in Reality No. 3
Martha Atienza
Silverlens, Manila
Atienza's first solo exhibition with Silverlens, this show presents a different facet of Atienza's art practice, whose works continue to expand as it explores the porous boundaries between art and life.
26 March - 30 April 2015
At Odds with the Visual
Dina Gadia
Silverlens, Manila
In 'At Odds with the Visual', we find Gadia further delineating collage as an approach, and not a medium. We are shown, as an audience, that it is more and more about theft of image and the subsequent reappropriation; not just pictures-and-scissors-and-glue.
06 March - 12 April 2015
A Short History of Decay
Pio Abad
Silverlens, Singapore
'A Short History of Decay' is Pio Abad's first solo exhibition in Singapore. The exhibition is comprised of new drawings and sculptures that further explores the artist’s ongoing interest in inventories and the social and political implications of objects.
17 January - 21 February 2015
Opera
Gabriel Barredo
Silverlens, Manila
In the latest work of Gabriel Barredo, an installation collectively titled 'Opera', instead of offering comforting sermons, he invites us to view the body itself, asking us to confront the mortality of the corpse, to contemplate upon its passing and empathize if not make sense of its beauty
16 January - 01 March 2015
Memento
Gregory Halili
Silverlens, Singapore
Silverlens is pleased to present 'Memento' by Gregory Halili, a continuation of his December show in Manila.
27 November - 20 December 2014
Memento
Gregory Halili
Silverlens, Manila
'Memento' focuses on Gregory Halili's interest and exploration about the notion of the life/death cycle. Halili used a material that is a vestige of nature - mother of pearl shells - to manifest our connection with nature.
18 September - 18 October 2014
Maria Taniguchi
Maria Taniguchi
Silverlens, Manila
Silverlens is proud to present a new piece from Maria Taniguchi's untitled paintings. With the painting, or perhaps more in relation to it, a video will be shown based on a fictional recollection of a group show set in Manila, where, guided by a disembodied voiceover the camera takes the viewer for a moon walk across the museum space.
28 August - 30 September 2014
The Collection of Jane Ryan and William Saunders
Pio Abad
Curated By Patrick D. Flores
Curated By Patrick D. Flores
Jorge B. Vargas Museum, Quezon City
Jorge B. Vargas Museum, in cooperation with Silverlens Galleries, presents 'The Collection of Jane Ryan and William Saunders', a major solo exhibition by artist Pio Abad.
01 August - 07 September 2014
Tabled
I-Lann Yee
Silverlens, Singapore
'Tabled' is Yee I-Lann's first exhibition at Silverlens. The exhibition features various work from Yee’s portfolio: Picturing Power (2013), Tabled (2013), YB Series (2010), Study of Lamprey’s Malaysian Male (2009), and Kerbau (2007).
10 July - 09 August 2014
Dead Ends
Frank Callaghan
Silverlens, Manila
In 'Dead Ends', Frank Callaghan photographs the boundaries and linear qualities of man-made structures.
10 July - 09 August 2014
Isles
Ryan Villamael
Silverlens, Manila
For his sixth solo show, Ryan Villamael departs from the wall-bound and framed structure of blank paper foliage and cuts instead a collection of printed archaic and contemporary maps, forming bell-jar encased sculptures, transforming the concept of map-as-index into map-as-object.
20 June - 27 July 2014
The First Kiss on Earth
Chati Coronel
Silverlens, Singapore
In 'The First Kiss on Earth', Chati Coronel traces her subject back to its primordial origins, imagining the kiss in a time before language and attempting to frame this crucial moment of union before it was, or ever could be, set down in words.
09 May - 15 June 2014
99%
Gary-Ross Pastrana
Silverlens, Singapore
Gary-Ross Pastrana, a Filipino conceptual artist and curator examines the very nature and identity of objects in 99%, an exhibition presented at Silverlens, Gillman Barracks. Pastrana, who at the heart of his process questions and breaks down the very construct which surrounds an object, also decidedly gives it a new identity and makes it almost whole.
30 April - 31 May 2014
Tierra Salvaje
Wawi Navarroza
Silverlens, Manila
'Tierra Salvaje' by Wawi Navarroza is composed of ten small-scale photographic works that combine abstracted and ephemeral “dirt/earth drawings” that are juxtaposed and physically layered on top of prints of her landscape images.
11 April - 08 May 2014
Summa
Gary-Ross Pastrana
Curated By Patrick D. Flores
Curated By Patrick D. Flores
Jorge B. Vargas Museum, Quezon City
Jorge B. Vargas Museum, in cooperation with Silverlens Galleries, presents 'Summa', a major solo exhibition by conceptual artist Gary-Ross Pastrana.
27 March - 26 April 2014
Caught Between Honor and Revenge, How Far Will One Man Go
Pow Martinez
Silverlens, Manila
'Caught Between Honor and Revenge, How Far Will One Man Go' showcases Pow Martinez’s purposefully banal, comic and perverse take on portraiture, group mentalities and the physically expressive qualities of painting.
14 February - 22 March 2014
The Circle Game
Corinne de San Jose & Christina Dy
Silverlens, Manila
In 'The Circle Game', Corinne de San Jose and Christina Dy present a series of assemblages that combine photography with the craft of crochet.
17 January - 23 February 2014
Maria Taniguchi
Maria Taniguchi
Silverlens, Singapore
Maria Taniguchi presents new large monochromatic brickwork paintings in this eponymous exhibition at Silverlens Gillman Barracks in Singapore.
23 October - 23 November 2013
Every Tool Is A Weapon If You Hold It Right
Pio Abad
Silverlens, Manila
'Every Tool Is A Weapon If You Hold It Right' is Pio Abad’s first solo presentation in Manila. Using the silk scarf as a template, Abad produces a fabric that turns into a luxurious page, the site of a contemporary vanitas.
23 October - 23 November 2013
Territory
Ryan Villamael
Silverlens, Manila
In “Territory,” Ryan Villamael returns to his intrinsic fascination with the natural sciences, but this time fashioning on paper images of skulls of random predatory animals, and strange mushrooms that sprout delicate, protective webs that echo the artist’s resolve to claim his stake on some metaphorical personal space.
15 August - 13 September 2013
On (or before) Photography / The silver + gelatin works
Gary-Ross Pastrana
Silverlens, Manila
In 'On (or before) Photography: The silver + gelatin works', Gary-Ross Pastrana recoils from the accelerated advancements of a whole new culture of image-making, to meditate on the device that forever changed the way we perceive the world and how we sustain our memories of it
02 August - 08 September 2013
Adaptable to New Redundancies
Dina Gadia
Silverlens, Singapore
In 'Adaptable to New Redundancies', Dina Gadia makes a more conscious effort to articulate her instinctual practice of assembling and stylizing from old magazines, posters, comics, encyclopedias, and her body of already existing work.
23 July - 24 August 2013
The Future That Was
Patricia Perez Eustaquio
Curated By Patrick D. Flores
Curated By Patrick D. Flores
Jorge B. Vargas Museum, Quezon City
'The Future That Was' are musings on the structures and ideas that produce, frame and promote art and design. Taking her cue from the final chapter of Robert Hughes’ 'Shock of the New' of the same title, Eustaquio weaves a narrative that examines the ideas of innovation and novelty, cultural patronage and the social notions of timeliness and timelessness, i.e. fashion and its latitudes.
11 July - 10 August 2013
Convenient Culture Prop
Dina Gadia
Silverlens, Manila
Dina Gadia’s trademark graphic style lined with sardonic feminist humor is on view in 'Convenient Culture Prop'.
05 June - 06 July 2013
UnPortraits
Chati Coronel
Silverlens, Manila
There is an absence of ego in 'UnPortraits'. The large canvases feel physically close and intimate, yet Chati Coronel has managed to leave out the sex and circus that so much of today's art now offers to an audience bent on short-lived frissons of excitement.
05 June - 06 July 2013
ULTRAMAR, Part II: Hunt & Gather, Terraria
Wawi Navarroza
Silverlens, Manila
Project Terraria is Wawi Navarroza's public call for the urbanfolk of Metro Manila to forage for soil, plants, wild growth, moss, pebbles, and ephemera from unlikely places and meaningful locations in the city. The materials from various sources are then juxtaposed and arranged in terrariums by the artist, and photographed for exhibition "ULTRAMAR, Part II: Hunt & Gather, Terraria".
25 April - 01 June 2013
The Glass Between Us
Hanna Pettyjohn
Silverlens, Manila
In 'The Glass Between Us', Hanna Pettyjohn's paintings are consistent in format and content only -- large portraits complemented by still life renderings of various articles of clothing -- the tone and hues, however, stand in pronounced contrast.
01 March - 31 March 2013
Bundle
Hanna Pettyjohn
Silverlens, Singapore
'Bundle' finds Hanna Pettyjohn returning to large scale portraits in close-up. Unlike her previous works in this format, the faces are unobscured by mask or mist. Rather, they are enveloped by disparate cuts of cloth and clothing
10 January - 09 February 2013
Conversation 17
Corinne de San Jose
Silverlens, Manila
With 'Conversation 17', Corinne de San Jose methodically wraps everyday objects with fabric, neither to obscure nor hide, but to transform the materiality of her subjects— hammer, vase, wine bottle—into objets d’art.
10 January - 09 February 2013
Site of Marks
Eric Zamuco
Silverlens, Manila
Setting up and packing house from the American Midwest to the East Coast till finally returning to homebase in the Philippines, Eric Zamuco’s fascination with the tenuousness of image and ramshackle materiality manifests this time around in 'Site of Marks' in its literally shredded traces of the artist’s recent past.
29 November - 22 December 2012
Ultramar, Part 1: Falling Into Place, Gathered Throng
Wawi Navarroza
Silverlens, Manila
To intercept the velocities that would fling you off the coast, weight becomes a necessary language. In many ways, Wawi Navarroza touches upon several geographical features in filtering a grounding work that is 'Ultramar, Pt. 1. Falling Into Place, Gathered Throng.' The work refers to land, the coast, an artist’s (lost) archive- overall a distance and the shores that make up the ends of this length.
20 September - 20 October 2012
Maria Taniguchi
Maria Taniguchi
Silverlens, Manila
To position Maria Taniguchi’s 'News', it is necessary to look into the centrality of the image in any conversation about art. WJT Mitchell writes in his essay, on “Word and Image” that visual image is key in the study of art history. Image has always been crucial to art’s ability to achieve emotive responses from its viewer. Familiarity with images and their construction allows us to enter into the language of the image and discern its various meanings.
26 July - 18 August 2012
Flatland
Ryan Villamael
Silverlens, Manila
In this exhibition, Ryan Villamael attempts to explore and reexamine the concept of “landscape”.
28 June - 21 July 2012
SkinSkin
Chati Coronel
Silverlens, Manila
The figures in SkinSkin stand out, stark and naked against plain bright backgrounds that drip onto their bodies. But Chati Coronel turns the body into a second canvas, reminding us that our physical experiences are written on skin.
24 May - 23 June 2012
Primal Salvo in Vibracolor
Dina Gadia
Silverlens, Manila
Pulp is the base matter of 'Primal Salvo In Vibracolor'. Its fundamental process is the mashup, that willfully mismatched juxtaposition of art and copy, specifically the taking of dated, banal images from old encyclopedias and lifestyle magazines.
15 March - 14 April 2012
Cyborg Scallops
Pow Martinez
Silverlens, Manila
'Cyborg Scallops' is an escalation of Pow Martinez’ vision of the apocalypse rendered with hellish pop expressionism. The series features mutant figurations and monster mash-ups strewn allover barren landscapes of irradiated hues that paint the end of the world with sarcastic wit and gallows humor.
26 October - 19 November 2011
Moonshine Baseline
Frank Callaghan
Silverlens, Manila
With his work firmly rooted in found nighttime landscapes, Frank Callaghan reveals his visual roots in 'Moonshine Baseline' by making his light source his subject matter. These are portraits of the moon hanging on the horizon.
28 September - 19 October 2011
Cloud Country
Patricia Perez Eustaquio
Silverlens, Manila
Inspired by what has happened and what she has seen or dreamt of since, Eustaquio churns this mix of the cerebral, the natural and the ethereal, and crafts a new show, entitled Cloud Country. In this show, Eustaquio showcases her characteristic work, paintings on shaped canvases, as well as new work cast from materials we haven’t seen her work with before-- crystal, bronze, a mirror and a photograph.
03 August - 27 August 2011
Body Prop
Gina Osterloh
Silverlens, Manila
By use of forced perspective with the camera and the manipulation of flatness, three-dimensionality and pattern, Gina Osterloh's 'Body Prop' creates an uneasy ground between portraiture and abstraction.
29 June - 30 July 2011
Few and Far Between
Hanna Pettyjohn
Silverlens, Manila
In 'Few and Far Between', Pettyjohn once again journeys in time, taking fragments of her past and translating them to oil paintings of landscapes. Her pieces reflect an impression of an experience unlike her previous shows where she analyzed a thought.
23 March - 23 April 2011
DOMINION
Wawi Navarroza
Silverlens, Manila
'DOMINION' is a new installment to Wawi Navarroza's body of works which tackles topography and heterotopic spaces. It presents the artist's return to landscape where she neither treats nature as a spectacle nor confines it into a picaresque framework.
23 March - 23 April 2011
A Very Short Flowering Season
Corinne de San Jose & Christina Dy
Silverlens, Manila
Christina Dy and Corinne De San Jose present 'A Very Short Flowering Season', a series of photographs of women’s bare backs, layered with embroidered patterns of flowers and trees.
19 January - 12 February 2011
Cut Felt
Ryan Villamael
Silverlens, Manila
'Cut Felt' stems from Ryan Villamael's childhood memories of doing paper cut outs, such as making paper snowflakes—folding the paper in equal parts, cutting out patterns, and then unfolding it to reveal the whole picture.
24 November - 18 December 2010
Year of Glad
Hanna Pettyjohn
Silverlens, Manila
'Year of Glad' is composed of four paintings of the people and the information Hanna Pettyjohn found during her personal mission to search for the missing or unclear pieces of her family’s history.
01 September - 25 September 2010
An Hour in a Glass Balloon
Chati Coronel
Silverlens, Manila
'An Hour in a Glass Balloon' reveals a whimsical and magical world, which Chati Coronel explains as a world that “usually doesn’t get celebrated in art.” In her large-scale oil paintings she uses the woman as her focal point, revealing the duality of their strength and softness with bulbous, organic shapes.
01 September - 25 September 2010
Contra-Affair
Dina Gadia
Silverlens, Manila
In 'Contra-Affair', Gadia uses three mediums: painting, collage and sculpture to explore “affairs of ideas/images that go against each other”—from a muscle man in a graveyard to a children’s textbook illustration with punk graphics.
07 July - 24 July 2010
Some Die Young and Some Die Old
Corinne de San Jose
Silverlens, Manila
Amused by the trees’ simplicity and awkward twists and bumps, and their being in-between life and actual death, Corinne de San Jose had found the subject of her art. With black and white photographs, de San Jose zeroes in on the silhouette of the trees, but more so, their stillness in 'Some Die Young and Some Die Old'.
09 June - 03 July 2010
Being There 1946: The Legacy of Teodulo Protomartir
Teodulo Protomartir
Silverlens, Manila
Beyond historical evidence, the significance of Teodulo Protomartir’s images is meaningful. Protomartir hands to the Filipino people cultural treasures that should remain part of Filipino consciousness and memory. Sixty-four years later, through this exhibit, we celebrate Protomartir because through him we were there too.
17 March - 17 April 2010
Dear Sweet Filthy World
Patricia Perez Eustaquio
Silverlens, Manila
Patricia Perez Eustaquio continues her exploration of memory with 'Dear Sweet Filthy World', bridging Elvis Costello’s song of the same name with oil paintings, cardboard sculptures, and boats cut from felt and cast in epoxy resin. Through these objects, Eustaquio expresses memory as an idea, and memory as she made it.
09 September - 03 October 2009
Dwelling
Frank Callaghan
Silverlens, Manila
Silverlens presents 'Dwelling', a series of images by Frankie Callaghan. As in his process and concept, Callaghan captures the ambient aura and light of the city. He takes to the backstreets and saturates dwelling places, monuments of cement and metal, in washes of light and color from their immediate surroundings.
06 May - 06 June 2009
The American Sweet
Hanna Pettyjohn
Silverlens, Manila
Hanna Pettyjohn details her experience as she attempted to discover her roots in Texas, where she worked in a Geological Engineering Laboratory. She brings these masked characters back to her home, the gritty environment of Manila, where their aseptic precautions become even more relevant.
08 January - 14 February 2009
Library Bookworks
Renato Orara
Silverlens, Manila
For his first gallery exhibition in the Philippines, Renato Orara renders human ears in library books and produces corresponding photographic prints with the books' call number labels affixed to them.
04 December 2008 - 03 January 2009
New Collages
Gary-Ross Pastrana
Silverlens, Manila
Gary-Ross Pastrana has been making collages alternately with his sculptural installations since 1999. Pastrana's latest set of collages relies heavily on the exploration of the range of possibilities offered by found printed material, paper texture, shape and color which calls for a more mature and developed sense of composition.
02 December 2008 - 09 January 2009
Indivisibilis
Gary-Ross Pastrana
Silverlens, Manila
Drawn to breaking things down, cutting things in half and splitting things in two, Gary-Ross Pastrana’s work extends itself beyond a mere division of objects to its material origins and its source. 'Indivisibilis' is more a reflection on a material’s transformative phases and an investigation into what is borne out of a sudden space that was once whole.
16 October - 22 November 2008
Death to the Major, Viva Minor
Patricia Perez Eustaquio
Silverlens, Manila
Death to the Major, Viva Minor is Patricia Eustaquio’s first solo show in four years. In that time, she made headway as a sought- after designer making sculptural art worn as clothing. She continued to paint and sculpt for various group shows in that time, and her pieces were consistently sold out whether here in Manila or in Kuala Lumpur, but is only now making a firm return to her primary medium at SLab.