Gallery News

Manuel Ocampo at Tyler Rollins, New York

 MANILA, Philippines - Manuel Ocampo looks back to his earlier fascination with religious symbols, which now reappear alongside some of his more personal, idiosyncratic motifs such as teeth, bones and fetuses, that heighten the feeling that we are looking into a nocturnal dream world in “An Arcane Recipe Involving Ingredients Cannibalized from the Reliquaries of Some Profane Illumination,” which opens on Sept. 16 at Tyler Rollins Fine Art in New York City. The show runs until Oct. 30.

The exhibit is Ocampo’s 60th solo show and his first in New York in four years.

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A series of shows at Nineveh

Caloy Gernale portrays ordinary Filipinos influenced by TV soap operas using his airbrush painting technique on paper in “Cast of Characters,” which opens on Sept. 19 at Nineveh Artspace in Villa Silangan, Sta. Cruz, Laguna. The show runs until Oct. 15.

“Cast of Characters” will be held simultaneously with three other shows: “Labing-Isang Daliri,” the annual show of UP Painters Club featuring works by students and alumni of UP Los Baños; “Love Hate Tragedy” by award-winning Pangasinan-based artists Boni de Guzman, Patrick Fernandez and Jojit Solano; “Tagpuan 2010” by Melvin Culaba, Noel Soler Cuizon, Rene Cuvos, Arnel Brillantes, Adrian Jay Manuel, Bon Mujeres, Cris Sipat, Ronald Jeresano, Teody Racuya, Kirby Roxas, Bayani Ray Alcala, Nica Acantilado, Alger Guevarra, Carlo Talion, Dante Palmes, Lito Ballaran, Jay Penafiel and Teo Alagao.

For inquiries, call 501-6617, SMS 0905-4281329 or visit www.esnips.com/web/ninevehartspace.

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Roderico Jose Daroy at The Drawing Room

Roderico Jose Daroy presents his drawings, collages and sculptures in “And of Time,” which is on view until Sept. 11 at The Drawing Room, Metrostar Bldg., 1007 Metropolitan Ave., Makati City.

For details, call 897-6990 or 897-7877.

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‘Day to Day Prime Time Ecstasy’ at Mag:net Katipunan

Bea Alcala, Buen Abrigo, Carlo de Guzman, Dean Africa, Frank Magalona, Jed Nacabuan, Mity dela Pena, and Nica Peralejo show how television shows hypnotize the viewers’ minds in “Day to Day Prime Time Ecstasy,” which is on view until Sept. 30 at Mag:net Gallery Katipunan, 335 Agcor Bldg., Katipunan Ave., Loyola Heights, QC.

For information, call 929-3191, SMS 0917-2091824, e-mail info@magnetgallereis.com or visit www.magnetgalleries.com.

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Noell EL Farol at Artinformal

Metrobank Prize for Achievement in Sculpture Awardee for 2009 Noell EL Farol showcases his wrought-iron and glass sculptures in “Bibliography,” which is on view until Sept. 20 at Artinformal, 277 Connecticut St., Greenhills East, Mandaluyong City.

For inquiries, visit www.artinformal.com.

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Chriseo Sipat at Art Verite

Chriseo Sipat pays tribute to the playful humor of the young in “Kids at My Works,” which opens on Sept. 11 at Art Verite, 2C-05, second floor, Shops at Serendra, Bonifacio Glboal City, Taguig.

Sipat’s portraits combine realism and exaggeration: heads are enlarged like cartoon characters, yet the features are captured in precise and painstaking detail.

For details, call 915-1982.

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Federico Alcuaz and Betsy Westendorp at The Peninsula Manila

Federico Aguilar Alcuaz and Betsy Westendorp hold “Gawad Kalinga Artists of Hope,” which opens on Sept. 8, 6 p.m. at The Gallery, third floor, The Peninsula Manila, Makati City.

The exhibit will launch the fundraising efforts of the first Gawad Kalinga Hope Ball.

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Lena Cobangbang at Mo_Space

Lena Cobangbang recreates her own idiosyncratic comedic garden of errors — where midget clowns are struck by lightning and black panthers hide in the artifice of plushy carpets — in “Velvet Landing,” which is on view until Sept. 26 at Mo_Space, Bonifacio High Street, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig.

For information, call 856-2745 or visit www.mo_space.net.