Group Exhibitions
2021 'Istorya Namon Subong: Our Stories Now,' Salcedo Auctions Private View and Art Fair Philippines 2021, Makati, Philippines
2021 Art In The Park 2021, Orange Project booth, Makati, Philippines
2020 “Art by the Bay,” Association of Pinoyprintmakers, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
2020 “Viva Excon 2020: Dasun” Orange Project, Bacolod, Philippines
2020 “Istorya conTEXT: Amon Ni,” Orange Project booth, ArtFair 2020, Makati, Philippines
2020 “Shadow Memories,” Negros Museum, Bacolod, Philippines
2019 Art In The Park 2019, Orange Project booth, Makati, Philippines
2019 “Hands On,” Association of Pinoyprintmakers, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
2019 “Spacial Intervals,” House of Frida, Bacolod, Philippines
2019 “Not Another Mother and Child,” Orange Project, Bacolod, Philippines
2019 “BAYE,” Damgo Coffeeshop, Silay, Philippines
2018 “Trip Lang,” Onsé Coffee + Art, Bacolod, Philippines
2018 “Tirada: 50 Years of Philippine Printmaking 1968-2018,” Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
2010 “For Colored Girls Only,” Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, California, USA
2007 “Overmapped: A Cartography of Filipino American Visual Arts,” SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, California, USA
Press and Media
I am a visual artist and printmaker based in Talisay, Negros Occidental. In my work, I explore identity, memory, time and place to create layers of nuance and meaning. I use mixed-media collage, printmaking and image transfers to convey an “antiquarian sensibility.” My motifs are inspired by found photographs, vintage ephemera, maps, family stories and archival research.
My collages and layered works on paper reveal and conceal stories. Editioning allows me to explore several states of process and experimentation. I make artist books as a structural form to expand a given narrative across time.
I also make cyanotype prints, a form of alternative photography, which produces the characteristic monochromatic blue image on archival quality paper. I use this antique process, which predates the film camera, and not black or white or color, because I want the images to be timeless. Blue is also the color of the ocean, of distance and longing.
About Me
Teaching and Demonstrations
2021 Introduction to Relief Printmaking, online workshops with Kantina/Roxas City and Fine Arts Dept. Siliman University, Philippines
2020 Cyanotype Workshop with Alexis Oshima, Art Fair Philippines 2020, Manila, Philippines
2019 Print Day in May, relief and drypoint workshops, Onsé Coffee + Art, Bacolod, Philippines
2018 Print Day in May, relief workshop, Onsé Coffee + Art, Bacolod, Philippines
2017 “Jamming with the Prints,” workshop, Orange Gallery, Bacolod, Philippines
2017 “Jamming with the Prints,” demonstration, Negros Museum, Bacolod, Philippines
2003 – 2009 Image Transfer Techniques, Polaroid Emulsion Lifts, and Portrait Collage Workshops at The Nova Studio, Pt. Richmond, California, USA
2007 Image Transfer Techniques and Creative Digital Printing at Bay Area Book Artists (BABA) series, Printmaking Department, Foothill College, California, USA
2014 Etching I, II and III with Kazuko Watanabe at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
2013 Linocut Immersion with Katie Gilmartin at the Chrysalis Print Studio, San Francisco, CA, USA
2013 Digital Chine Colle with Robin McCloskey at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
2013 Soft Ground Etching with Theodora Varnay Jones at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
2011 Monotype Intensive with Ron Pokrasso at the Vander Meer Studios, Oakland, CA, USA
2010 Drop Color Monotype with William Harsh at the Center for Community Arts, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
2008 Encaustics Monoprinting workshop with Eve-Marie Bergren at the San Francisco Center for the Books, San Francisco, CA, USA
2006 Collage workshop with Ann Baldwin, San Rafael, CA, USA
2004 Collage workshop with Jonathan Talbot, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA, USA
2003 Image Transfers on Paper, Fabric & More with Richard Elliot, Marin County Arts Center, Marin, CA, USA
1980 BA Advertising, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA
Art Education