In mirrors, merging, Catalina Africa presents five devotional paintings that mark a profound transition, shifting away from symbolic control toward direct surrender to the unknown. Across canvases populated by elemental topographies, floating altars, and aerating flowforms, her process unfolds as a slow ritual of holding inner and outer terrains in stillness. In this studio interview, Africa discusses how painting serves as a steady tether between a past self and a future yet to arrive while everything else rearranges.

Silverlens congratulates artist Imelda Cajipe Endaya (b. 1949, Manila) on being conferred the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Visual Arts. This prestigious distinction, the highest state honor for the arts, recognizes Endaya’s five decades of radical devotion to a visual language that is at once deeply personal, fiercely political, and undeniably Filipino. She is the first woman to be named National Artist for Visual Arts, marking a historic moment for feminist art and social realism in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will host MATRIX 290 / Keka Enriquez, marking the San Francisco-based artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States. On view from December 9, 2026, through April 25, 2027, the exhibition features eight new large-scale, expressionistic paintings created during her residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, signaling her return to painting following a two-decade hiatus.