Fade To White

Born in France and raised in the Philippines, Vinyl on Vinyl artist Reen Barrera’s artistic inclinations were evident early in childhood. The artist had then begun with repairing wood carvings at church, which grew into an interest in collecting found materials to...

Cavite-based SAIS joins the crossover as a part of Art Underground. A graduate of Fine Arts from the Technological University of the Philippines-Manila, he has been exhibiting works since 2020. Working primarily with charcoal and graphite, he is most known for his...

Valerie Chua's (1987) artistic practice revolves around the appropriation of image stock and both personal and public film images as her primary subject matter. Her works capture the complex and multifaceted nature of identity construction, often overlooked in our era...

Shireen Co (b. 1997) is a visual artist and art writer based in Quezon City. Primarily a painter, her focus is on the domestic, finding an extensive source of pattern and variation in the different permutations of everyday objects. The ubiquity and familiarity of...

Pablo K. Capati III’s (b. 1975) ceramic practice centres upon the rigorous and demanding method of wood firing. Using an anagama kiln that he constructed at his studio in San Jose, Philippines, Capati fires his works for a number of days so that the unglazed forms...

Bandung-based Addy Debil (b.1993) is widely known as a street artist, where his signature characters can often be seen in the doodles and murals he made on the city walls. With his uniquely approachable visual style, he fluidly navigates through various art scenes,...

Visual artist and sculptor Anna Orlina (b. 1992) has been exposed to the art world ever since she was a child. Glass as an art medium is not only one that she chose, but one that she was also born into. Her father, Ramon Orlina, has been a self-taught coldworking...

Artist, cultural worker, and teacher Rosa Mirasol is an advocate of slow and mindful living. Mirasol shares her love of pottery with various communities across the Philippines through Clay Meditation and Clay Autobiography Workshops.

Rizal-based ceramicist Marco Rosario contemplates the places, objects, people, and memories that make us. After completing his studies at the University of the Philippines, Rosario worked at Tsugaru Kanayama Pottery where he developed his distinct method of creating...

Melding the handicrafts of pottery and crochet, artist Jezzel Wee reflects on the congruence of materiality and meaning in her chosen mediums. Wee graduated from the University of the Philippines where she currently teaches as part of the College of Fine Arts, and is...

Jose Solon Perfecto looks to the “underrated experience of solitary dining”, presenting a series of sake bottles and cups that reflect his own hermitic practice and identity as an artist. Perfecto, also working in La Union, uses local wild clays and rice straw ash to...

Based in La Union, potter and photographer JD Yu explores techniques that encapsulate the rawness of the natural world. Inspired by his immediate surroundings, his work is textured with the experience of living by the sea. Yu graduated from the De La Salle University...

Kangleon works terra cotta and stoneware into a homogenous body to create her pieces, she notes its fermented plasticity as a fulcrum of the quiet ways we connect with each other and the world that surrounds us. A ceramicist and instructor, Kangleon’s practice...

As she draws from the sociopolitical, ecological, and cultural realities of the day, Engaño warns against the pitfalls of resilience, weaponized to drive the Filipino people further away from justice. Engaño runs her own studio, Odangputik Studio, in Cavite, creating...

The works of ceramicist and illustrator Iori Espiritu, in a similar fashion, explore our troubled interiorities. A graduate of the University of Santo Tomas and the University of the Philippines, Espiritu has exhibited widely, both locally and internationally. She is...

Haraya Corazon Ocampo Tejido (b.1981) received her Marketing Management degree from the De La Salle University Manila in 2002. She unofficially started her art practice back in 2009 as a studio apprentice for visual artist Jomike Tejido, her spouse. Working on several...

Originally hailing from the Philippines, Johnrey Quiban (b. 1985) is an architect and self-taught mood landscape artist based in Singapore. He is inspired by the stillness of nature and the imperfections of life. Quiban’s journey led him to embark on a new chapter in...

Niño Odosis' body of work depicts social realism in various forms. A visual artist and an art instructor, he juxtaposes historical imagery and present-day figures. He is known for his paintings with impressionist ‘hatched’ style, a style of art wherein one draws...

Geri Gonzales is a visual artist, whose strengths lie in acrylic and oil painting. Her art is inspired by the themes of the Romantic Era and aims to depict the beauty and fragility of natural transformation through nostalgic and ethereal landscapes.

Nicole Bitas is a visual artist who finds inspiration in the mundanity of daily life. These may be the morning introspections, idle moments in the afternoon, or conversations at the dinner table, among others. Her works often incorporate a humorous palette and...

Jobert Cruz is a Tondo-born-and-based artist whose works resist easy categorization by form and style. An artist dedicated to finding new expressions on his painted plane, Cruz’s career has seen the development of a distinct visual language marked by movement,...

Thea Quiachon (b. 1996) is a Philippine-based artist whose works focus on stories about people’s intricate connections with one another. Through her figurative art, she creates seemingly indistinct illustrations that hold meaning to her yet open for the interpretation...