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What happens after the dust settles? Stephen Lucio reflects on mortality

Dust envelops the sweep of Stephen Lucio’s first solo exhibit. The through line of ‘When Dust Settles’, it follows the artist’s…

The contradictions of construction in Vien Valencia's 'Unpainting'

"These are the supposed fallout from other projects, material in between, on the floor of a studio, jarring the cycle…

Finding Poetry in Jel Suarez’s arrivals, retrievals

Every element in each assemblage or collage is handpicked…

On the Materiality of Cloth in Dino Gabito's ‘Threads’

Gabito’s preoccupation with cloth focuses attention to an almost rudimentary level—devoid…

What to See in This Year's UPCFA Studio Arts Degree Show

This year's UPCFA student degree showcase serves up a balance of skill, talent, ingenuity, limning, incidentally, the pressures that come with them.

How Thirty-three Artists Redefine 'Kasarinlan'

Launched, tellingly, on July 4 at the Linangan Art Residency, the group exhibition 'Kasarinlan' examines the civic subject's autonomy -- or lack…

On 'Same Shapes, Different Each Time'

Miguel Puyat's first solo show invites viewers into the creative act, as first imagined, and as it ought to be.