The Return of the Tearjerker
30 July - 12 September 2020 | West Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
Quezon Bridge Showdown
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 60 in
2020
We consume voraciously aspects of both American and Japanese culture. We celebrate with them martial spirit, impressive combat and survival stories based on a reshaped selective past and imagined future - the American comics dominated by the shadow of cowboy and frontier culture;
the Japanese penchant for self-annihilation by angry monsters and massive natural disasters.
Manila was the most devasted city during WWII until the Americans dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. "Quezon Bridge Showdown" spoofs one of the bleakest moment in Philippine history when American and Japanese forces try to annihilate each other for territorial and martial victories destroying the whole city and killing 300,000 Filipinos.
Wind Chimes
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 36 in
2007
Burn
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 48 in
2020
He (Dubuffet) shaped the lava-like flows of the earth color until he finally brought them to a stop.
He summoned his stored-up skill to fix the fleeting images that seemed to well up like volcanic eruptions. - Lieberman
Screen Test
Acrylic on canvas
16 x 16 in
2007
Sampaloc Girl
Acrylic on canvas
16 x 16 in
2007
2F Gush
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 72 in
2020
This space is a step out of my studio. Sometimes I hear the dog’s nails scratching the wood planks, getting louder just before it’s head appears on top of the stairs. This is where I leave a painting to dry. I also see her here leave and arrive from the grocery run. At the end of days, on its floors and walls; through the doors and windows, I follow the path of the setting sun.
