"Doing Time on Filipino Time" Exhibition
Crossing Art
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Crossing Art presents group show, Doing Time on Filipino Time, featuring five artists, Gaston Damag, Dex Fernandez, David Griggs, Dina Gadia and Gerry Tan from and part of the Bastards of Misrepresentation: NY Edition, a multi-venue exhibition curated by Manuel Ocampo, headquartered at TOPAZ ARTS and with other participating organizations, Queens Museum of Art, Tyler Rollins Fine Art and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.
Gaston Damag is a Philippine-born artist based in Paris. He is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Faculté de la Sorbonne Paris, and the University of The Philippines. Noted for using ethnographic symbols of his material culture in the Cordillera region in the Northern Philippines to create contemporary works of art, his style fuses the wooden idols of the ancient Ifugao rice god, Bul-ul, along with diverse modern industrial materials such as steel, glass and neon lights.
Dexter Fernandez was born in Marulas, Valenzuela City. He pursued studies at the Technological University of the Philippines, graduating in 2005. He first worked as a graphic designer at a large format printing company and in 2006 left for Saudi Arabia to work as a mural painter at a private residence. Fernandez works with found images and material that he collages together to create fantastical figurative compositions, combining photographic reproduction with detailed, hand-painted motifs that “cast a bejeweled, patterned, quality.”
Dina Gadia deconstructs signs from mass media conspiring to present a comedy of errors, reveling within while being lost in translation. Born in 1986 in Pangasinan, Philippines, she currently lives and works in Manila. She has had numerous solo exhibitions at Silverlens, Blanc Artspace, Hiraya Gallery, and her show Regal Discomforts was short-listed in the 2012 Ateneo Art Awards. She received her BFA Advertising degree in 2006.
David Griggs was born in Sydney in 1975, and currently lives and works in Manila. Griggs known best for his paintings, photography and installation projects works closely with various communities and artists. Creating highly active political humorous projects that have dealt with the incarceration of inmates from Manila City Jail to Halloween festivals in Sta Mesa. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia, Asia and Europe.
Gerardo Tan is a multimedia artist, working with objects and photo-based installations, artist books, collages and mixed media paintings. Composed of multiple layers of imagery taken from the world of art, and from mass media, Tan’s subsequent retouching and remixing of visual information in his work gives way to new itinerant meanings – “works that grapple with, the contemporary tradition of image appropriation and critical questions of originality and artistic authenticity.” Tan received his BFA in Painting at the University of the Philippines in Diliman and his MFA in Painting at the State University of New York in Buffalo on a Fulbright Fellowship grant. He is also a recipient of the CCP Thirteen Artists Award in 1988.
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Schedule
from November 03, 2012 to December 20, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-11-03 from 15:00 to 18:00
Artist(s)
Gaston Damag, Dex Fernandez, David Griggs, Dina Gadia, Gerry Tan