This exhibition at Silverlens New York marks the first presentation devoted to the drawings of Carlos Villa and Leo Valledor. Long known for their monumental paintings, here the artists work up close. On paper, their ideas are immediate and unguarded, holding the DNA of their major works while making their kinship plain: two artists for whom artmaking was a form of thinking, and where experimentation was the real subject. A few master paintings accompany the works, extending that dialogue and pairing the iconic with the intimate.

This body of work departs from Reflections, in Situ (2025), where she “zoomed in” on her father’s ceramics, letting surrounding foliage overtake them. In A Mountain’s Hands, she “zooms out.” Now front and center, her parents’ humble ceramics tower above mountain peaks and reach from lush undergrowth past treelines to clouded horizons. Sari-sari (sundry) stores, residential subdivisions, warehouses, and other urban encroachments shrink to the margins. This inversion of scale – between the handheld and intimate and the sprawling and expansive – exalts the ceramics, in the artist’s words, to a “grand, imposing, and heroic” status.