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.
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, Elaine Navas
Silverlens, Manila
Silverlens' first online only show
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
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.
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.
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”).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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'.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.