Silverlens

MANILA
21 November - 21 December 2024

Soler Santos, Mona Santos, Luis Antonio Santos, Carina Santos, Isabel Santos

To See A Landscape As It Is

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens is pleased to announce 'To See A Landscape As It Is,' a group exhibition curated by Nilo Ilarde featuring Soler Santos, Mona Santos, Luis Antonio Santos, Carina Santos, and Isabel Santos. For the first time since 2014, the Santos family comes together in a collective exhibition, bringing forth a distinct yet intertwined vision.

MANILA
17 October - 16 November 2024

Jose Tence Ruiz

The Carbon Footprint of the Stoic Heroic

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens Manila proudly announces The Carbon Footprint of the Stoic Heroic, a solo exhibition by Jose Tence Ruiz, showcasing mixed media works and self- portraits from the late 1970s alongside new works on canvas, a large installation that spans almost the entire large gallery space, and another depicting the artist’s body in the small gallery.

MANILA
29 August - 05 October 2024

Stephanie Syjuco

Silverlens, Manila

In "Inherent Vice," Syjuco engages with a period from a more recent past, featuring images from the late 1960s to 1972 in the photo-morgue of the now defunct Manila Chronicle newspaper housed in the Lopez Museum and Library archives.

MANILA
25 July - 23 August 2024

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens is pleased to announce At First Sight, Leo Valledor’s (b. 1936 - d. 1989, San Francisco, USA) first solo exhibition in Manila, opening 25 July 2024. Widely acknowledged as one of the most influential Filipino American artists, Valledor played a pivotal role in the development of his community’s burgeoning art scene in the 1960s while establishing a life-long artistic practice later recognized to have expanded the lexicon of American Modernism.

MANILA
25 July - 23 August 2024

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens is pleased to announce Pow Martinez at Silverlens Manila, opening 25 July 2024. Pow Martinez often describes his practice as “what a nature painter might do in a digital landscape,” rendering surreal, whimsical, at times unsettling, scenes in bold colors and whimsical compositions. The worlds he depicts are derived from the digital landscape we often find ourselves immersed in, his inspirations being movie tropes, pop culture moments, and the broader expanse of the online space.

MANILA
11 June - 13 July 2024

Bernardo Pacquing

Silverlens, Manila

'Causal Loops' is a collection of paintings, mixed media collages, and sculptures by Bernardo Pacquing, opening at Silverlens Gallery Manila on 11 June 2024. The solo exhibition emphasizes the artist's ongoing studies in the form and process of abstraction through his interest in the layering of time and ruins.

MANILA
11 June - 13 July 2024

Silverlens, Manila

In 'Land Poetics,' Dina Gadia paints from her own photographs, offering an intimate perspective that diverges from her typical sources of books and magazines. The exhibition features seven new paintings on canvas, all rendered in acrylic.

MANILA
26 April - 25 May 2024

Imelda Cajipe Endaya

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens is pleased to announce Rigodon, Imelda Cajipe Endaya’s inaugural exhibition at the gallery, opening 26 April 2024. 'Rigodon' bursts with color, rhythm, and vigor. A renowned feminist, activist, and community organizer, Cajipe Endaya is hailed for her large-scale paintings and mixed media works, as well as her strongly socio-political themes, centering the plight of Filipino women throughout history.

MANILA
26 April - 25 May 2024

Stephanie Comilang & Simon Speiser

Piña, Why is the Sky Blue?

Silverlens, Manila

Previously exhibited in major institutions including the Tate Modern in London, UK and Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Canada, Piña, Why is the Sky Blue? is an affirming techno-feminist vision of a future in which ancestral knowledge and new technologies converge. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a video/virtual-reality installation of the same title, a speculative documentary that narrates the story of a spiritual medium known as Piña.

MANILA
21 March - 17 April 2024

Various Artists

Markers: Silverlens @ 20

Silverlens, Manila

In celebration of its 20th anniversary, Silverlens proudly presents Markers: Silverlens @ 20, a special exhibition featuring a selection of works from past shows, marking pivotal moments in the gallery’s storied history.

MANILA
15 February - 18 February 2024

Various Artists

Art Fair Philippines 2024

Booth 2, The Link

Silverlens is thrilled to participate in this year’s edition of Art Fair Philippines, featuring over 60 artists working across a wide range of mediums. The gallery’s presentation will be on view at Booth 2, The Link from 15 to 18 February 2024.

MANILA
15 February - 18 February 2024

Art Fair Philippines Special Exhibition: Taloi Havini

Booth 51 (Level 7), The Link

In the ARTFAIRPH/PROJECTS section, Artes Mundi 10 Winner Taloi Havini will present 'Dengung Hyena (Hyena Resounding)' (2020), which she created in collaboration with Indonesian-Australian sound designer Michael Toisuta.

MANILA
13 February - 16 March 2024

Love is Like a Heat Wave

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens is thrilled to present a major solo exhibition by Pacita Abad. "Pacita Abad: Love is Like a Heat Wave" celebrates the 20th anniversary of the exhibition "Circles in My Mind", Pacita Abad’s landmark exhibition at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. The exuberant exhibition would serve as the final presentation of the artist’s work, before her passing in 2004.

MANILA
09 January - 03 February 2024

Tessy Pettyjohn

A Light in Everything

Silverlens, Manila

In her art and beyond, Tessy Pettyjohn is looking for tranquility. With “A Light in Everything,” her second solo exhibition at Silverlens Gallery, Pettyjohn unveils a new series of sculptural clay works with the intention of illuminating forms seen only during the act of meditation, a practice that has long informed her art-making process, from concept to creation.

MANILA
09 January - 03 February 2024

Return, My Gracious Hour

Silverlens, Manila

Motivated by Jose Rizal’s poem "Memories of My Town," this exhibition surveils, appropriates, and reconstitutes American-occupation archival materials, presenting them into stupendous flora: the paper cutouts of which Villamael is the foremost practitioner. Whether encased in vitrines or flourishing in the open, the works consider history not as an end, but a means—a medium—through which parallelisms between the past and the post-colonial present may be drawn.

MANILA
18 November - 20 December 2023

Geraldine Javier

A Tree is Not a Forest

Silverlens, Manila

Geraldine Javier tends to her organic farm every day. Since moving here in 2013, she has become a daily witness to the symbiosis of organisms, the behaviors of animals, the processes of nature. As an artist-farmer, it was inevitable she would experiment with pigments from her natural surroundings as a potential for telling stories.

MANILA
05 October - 04 November 2023

Yasmin Sison-Ching

Time is a Restless Sea

Silverlens, Manila

In 'Time is a Restless Sea,' Sison creates autobiographical paintings, as she has done so for over two decades, with fleeting moments captured and memorialised in pigment and canvas forever. Set against the sea, sky, and sand, nature becomes the foil to Sison’s paintings’ protagonists.

MANILA
05 October - 04 November 2023

Drift and Vapor

Silverlens, Manila

In 'Drift and Vapor,' Muñoz explores expanded printmaking, combining a screen-print process with painting and photography. The images depict landscapes and communities she encounters everyday—prosaic scenes that soothe the brutal side of life. The artist conjures the elusive, the transient, generating mood and a sense of vastness in atmospheric storytelling. Resolute on vernacular methods, she manipulates snapshots in her studio darkroom using hand-applied emulsion and a self-made exposure unit, then prints them with acrylic for textured surface quality.

MANILA
24 August - 23 September 2023

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens Manila is pleased to present 'Sitting Room,' a solo exhibition by Jonathan Ching. Central to this body of work is the chair as a functional object in space, an index of human relations, and an arbiter of our connection with the world.

MANILA
24 August - 23 September 2023

Among the good wishes

Silverlens, Manila

Allan Balisi’s painterly idiom thrives in deferral: a cinematic sequence interrupted, a series of compositions that dilate a singular action, or a forthcoming gesture captured as it is about to be completed. Contra inertia, the paintings depict imminence–a quick breath before bodies topple, the last grunt before the locked gate is forced open.

MANILA
13 July - 12 August 2023

Ayka Go & Paolo Icasas

The Edge Where The Shadow Softens

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens Manila presents 'The Edge Where the Shadow Softens' a duo exhibition mixing large paintings and sculptures by Ayka Go and Paolo Icasas. This is the first time they are exhibiting together with each showing new work. The two connect through their shared expression of the abstract with Ayka finding freedom in order and Paolo rooting the same freedom in spontaneity.

MANILA
13 July - 12 August 2023

Poklong Anading, Tina Bonoan, James Clar, Lou Lim, Arturo Luz, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Jon Pettyjohn, Rachel Rillo, Ryan Villamael, Eric Zamuco
Curated By Yael Buencamino Borromeo

Essence Distilled: Homage to Arturo Luz

Silverlens, Manila

In a society with a proclivity for lionization, an homage to an artist becomes a challenge to reinvigorate conversations about his work and shake off the air of reverential awe with which it is approached. The artists in this show propose new ways of encountering Arturo Luz. Relegating the awards and accolades to the background, they engage with his work as they would a contemporary; interrogating his imagery and titles, reflecting on his processes, distilling his aesthetic principles and contemplating the very notion of an homage.

MANILA
08 June - 07 July 2023

Silverlens, Manila

In 'Steps,' Jon Pettyjohn’s third solo exhibition at Silverlens, the artist advances his pursuit of personal expression within the framework of traditions and techniques to which he has dedicated himself for close to fifty years.

MANILA
08 June - 07 July 2023

Silverlens, Manila

With an art practice that spans two decades, Nona Garcia continues to be recognized as one of the most prolific artists who paints after the photographic image. Through a remarkable merging of subject, style, and concept, her compositions unceasingly generate images that situate viewers within the vague yet monumental aspirations of the real—all culled from her immediate surroundings and encounters—where the poignant, emblematic, and personal moment becomes shared epiphanies through her paintings.

MANILA
20 April - 20 May 2023

Spirited Traces

Silverlens, Manila

This third node in the sequence of exhibitions on Bose closely reads the artist’s form and language. It stems from the effort of the earlier initiations to stage, first, the impulse of the intelligence, and second, to survey the sites that specified his endeavors.

MANILA
02 March - 05 April 2023

Ocular Vocabulary

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens Manila is pleased to announce 'Ocular Vocabulary', a solo exhibition by Thai artist Mit Jai Inn. In this exhibition, Mit acts as a master of his own language. 'Ocular Vocabulary' is a visual language-game that echoes Wittgenstein's concept of 'Sprachspiel,' in which meaning is ever malleable and relative.

MANILA
02 March - 05 April 2023

As Wild As We Come

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens is delighted to present 'As Wild As We Come' by Wawi Navarroza. First exhibited at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in London last year, and recently shown at Art Fair Philippines’ Special Exhibitions section, this new body of work marks a transformative phase in the artist’s life and practice, from moving countries to becoming a mother.

MANILA
16 February - 19 February 2023

Various Artists

Art Fair Philippines 2023

The Link and Silverlens Manila

Silverlens is delighted to participate in this year's edition of Art Fair Philippines with five capsule exhibitions in two venues. The pieces will be on view from 15 to 18 February, Wednesday to Saturday, at Silverlens Manila, and from 16 to 19 February, Thursday to Sunday, at The Link Carpark.

MANILA
16 February - 19 February 2023

Pow Martinez & Wawi Navarroza

Art Fair Philippines Special Exhibitions: Pow Martinez & Wawi Navarroza

The Link Roofdeck

Special exhibitions entitled 'Delusions of Grandeur Woke Farm' by Pow Martinez and 'As Wild As We Come' by Wawi Navarroza will be presented in the fair's special projects section at The Link Roofdeck.

MANILA
14 January - 11 February 2023

Mark Andy Garcia

Chasing Sunsets

Silverlens, Manila

In “Chasing Sunsets,” the eye looks toward the middle of the canvas, towards a clearing in expectation, almost. The work does not occupy the entirety of the frame, but ends before the edges.

MANILA
14 January - 11 February 2023

Corinne de San Jose

Lazy Projectors

Silverlens, Manila

Corinne de San Jose commandeers Silverlens Manila's main gallery space and transforms it into a multi-sensorial theater to bring to life the lost silent film Dalagang Bukid. Directed by José Nepomuceno in 1919, it is considered the first film produced and directed by a Filipino.

MANILA
10 December 2022 - 07 January 2023

Heavenly Bodies

Silverlens, Manila

'Heavenly Bodies' is Gregory Halili’s attempt to negotiate a world re-defined by disruption and change. Contained in each of his comets is a universe of images and anecdotes, deities and daemons, secrets and proclamations— the detritus of old worlds imploding.

MANILA
10 December 2022 - 07 January 2023

Catalina Africa

Shrine in the Shape of a Shadow

Silverlens, Manila

Through Shrine in the Shape of a Shadow, Catalina reflects on how her practice can deepen an understanding of nature’s subtle actions. Edging closer to refining the routes that correspond to the world, she begins with portals to enter landscapes.

MANILA
03 November - 03 December 2022

Silverlens, Manila

Pow Martinez describes his current process as “what a nature painter might do in a digital landscape”. Clunker presents a collection of recent paintings featuring his now familiar solid-eyed, rubber band-lipped, and ‘80s era mullet-rocking characters.

MANILA
03 November - 03 December 2022

Silverlens, Manila

Deciphering systems in the way images are formed and assembled, Luis Lorenzana’s Heads presents abstract works synthesizing his continuing probe into identifying the essence of artistic expression, an endeavor that he had strived for years preceding his artistic career.

MANILA
06 October - 22 October 2022

Various Artists

Collectors Plus

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens presents the third edition of Collectors Plus, featuring pieces from our art bank and works that will be exhibited at the gallery for the first time.The presentation includes pieces by Leslie de Chavez, Dina Gadia, Mit Jai Inn, Pow Martinez, Wawi Navarroza, Gina Osterloh, Bernardo Pacquing, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Hanna Pettyjohn, Issay Rodriguez, and Ryan Villamael.

MANILA
22 September - 22 October 2022

Shozo Michikawa

Silverlens, Manila

Shozo Michikawa’s second solo show with Silverlens Gallery continues to take inspiration from his birthplace, Hokkaido, with its geography of topographical contrasts from mountain greens to volcanic plateaus in a new collection of fifteen works.

MANILA
11 August - 10 September 2022

Dina Gadia, MM Yu, Jenifer K Wofford

Silverlens, Manila

In Aquifer, three women explore the affinities that spring from the well of their respective practices. Mining and dissecting the bedrock of images across a multitude of overlays and cross-sections, Dina Gadia, Jenifer K Wofford, and MM Yu engage in art that tends to flow through the crevices and find their way to the surface.

MANILA
11 August - 10 September 2022

Nicholas Grafia
Curated By Erin Gleeson

Silverlens, Manila

Nicholas Grafia’s first solo exhibition with Silverlens brings together painting, performance and evolving archive in a scenographically cued gallery. The title Comeback Kid. counters victimhood culture in an effort to annunciate the artist’s ethic and practice of subverting systematic oppression through ambivalence, pleasure, kink, humor, trickery, magic, and more.

MANILA
30 June - 30 July 2022

Yvonne Quisumbing

Silverlens, Manila

Yvonne Quisumbing’s 'Cartomancer' follows a storyline from the innocent Fool towards the wisdom of the World. The narrative is told in ten oil on sculptural substrates, each representing ten out of the several archetypes in the Tarot deck . She lays down this powerful deck of designs that grounds the art of fortune-telling to folk healing.

MANILA
30 June - 30 July 2022

What Did The Tree Learn From The Earth To Be Able to Talk With The Sky

Silverlens, Manila

The painter, Elaine Navas, who has concentrated on life more than anything since the pandemic started, offers a much-needed introspection on the things that matter: to paint what one wants to see–-in thinking that every chance might come as the last. This serves as countermeasure to the bleakness of our current state—wherein we have been exposed to the vulnerabilities of humanity—as well as to its ability to continue and survive.

MANILA
19 May - 18 June 2022

Patricia Perez Eustaquio

Patricia Perez Eustaquio

Silverlens, Manila

In an exhibition that gathers a new series of graphite drawings and soft fabric sculptures, Patricia Perez Eustaquio continues to challenge established ideas of value and form in the process of translation from one art to another.

MANILA
19 May - 18 June 2022

Alfredo Esquillo

Bread and Circuses

Silverlens, Manila

Bread and Circuses, a solo exhibition by Alfredo Esquillo creatively adapts the theory of mass culture as social decay from the book of the same title by American author and theorist Patrick Brantlinger. The phrase Bread (panem) and Circuses (circenses) was first coined by Roman poet Juvenal, it was used by Brantlinger to summarize the eventual decline of heroism among the Romans after the Roman Republic cease to exist and the rise of dictatorial Roman Empire consequentially began.

MANILA
07 April - 07 May 2022

Poklong Anading

light, growth, residue

Silverlens, Manila

light, growth, residue reveals a body of work that confirms Poklong Anading’s place in contemporary art as one of its most keen observers of processes, particularly of the contentious bond that humans forge with nature. As an artist who has displayed incredible adaptability in using different media and materials—from drawing, to video, and to actual organic forms—Anading makes good of this versatility by demonstrating their interconnectedness, and by insisting on seamless movements from one idea to the next.

MANILA
07 April - 07 May 2022

Pio Abad & Stephanie Syjuco

Crime and Ornament

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens is proud to present the two-artist exhibition, Crime and Ornament, featuring Pio Abad and Stephanie Syjuco. Re-engaging and re-energizing previous works to confront the urgency of the moment, the artists materialize the ontology of protest, recalibrating how text, image, and even the seeming impersonality of the chroma key may be activated to prompt oppositional relationships, revolutionary impulses, counter- narratives.

MANILA
25 March - 01 April 2022

I Can't Tell You What I Don't Know, Only That I Don't Know

Ayala Museum, Makati, Philippines

‘I Can’t Tell You What I Don’t Know, Only That I Don’t Know’ is a largescale installation by media artist James Clar in collaboration with the award winning giant parol team from Santa Lucia in San Fernando, Philippines. Organized by Silverlens Galleries in partnership with Ayala Museum, this new artwork will debut publicly in front of the newly renovated museum building during Art Fair Philippines 2022. The work is also presented under OpenSpace, Ayala Museum's public art exhibition program.

MANILA
22 March - 05 April 2022

Silverlens, Manila

Upon closer regard there is something unsettling about the pieces in Ten Thousand Things That Breathe. They are not exactly accurate representations of the subjects he chooses. While there is the object depicted on paper, there are also the moments in between—the shifting angles of perspective, the shape of the paper that contains his marks, the density of marks in relation to one another, and the manner in which these marks interact with the negative space. Each piece becomes an object in and of itself.

MANILA
22 March - 01 April 2022

Various Artists

Art Fair Philippines 2022 at Silverlens

Silverlens, Manila

For Art Fair Philippines 2022, Silverlens is pleased to be participating with five capsule exhibitions. Curated by the gallery directors, the shows will be installed from March 22 – 26 at all Silverlens spaces in our Makati gallery.

MANILA
22 February - 26 March 2022

Joseph Gabriel, Hanna Pettyjohn, Pam Quinto
Curated By Carlos Quijon, Jr.

Silverlens, Manila

Presenting works by Joseph Gabriel, Hanna Pettyjohn, and Pam Quinto, Resonant Earth prospects the possibilities of contemporary ceramics in extrapolating a cosmopolitan and modernist history of craft. The exhibition takes its cue from a 1961 essay by painter Fernando Zobel de Ayala titled “The First Philippine Porcelain.”

MANILA
14 January - 12 February 2022

Bernardo Pacquing

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens is pleased to present a show from Bernardo Pacquing titled “Disquietude,” a series of works shaped by the precarity and separation lived through by the artist while in lockdown in a foreign country.

MANILA
14 January - 12 February 2022

For the Land that Laments

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens is pleased to open its 2022 program with the show "For the Land that Laments", a presentation of new works by recent CCP 13 Artists Awardee Lou Lim.

MANILA
25 November - 22 December 2021

Ryan Villamael & Liv Vinluan

Bukang Liwayway

Silverlens, Manila

SILVERLENS is proud to present the two-artist exhibition, Bukang Liwayway, by Ryan Villamael and Liv Vinluan. Known for their material manipulations and eloquent engagements with archival documents (maps, photographs, and Colonial Period illustrations), the artists re-energize some of their recurrent themes to locate terra firma in the face of loss, instability, and erosion of fidelity to truth.

MANILA
25 November - 22 December 2021

her demilitarized zone

Silverlens, Manila

Gina Osterloh's solo exhibition her demilitarized zone reflects on the current human condition and contemplates an alternate way of being where words and ideologies are de-weaponized; implements of brutality, violence and exclusion metamorphose into a poetry of pleasure and possibility.

MANILA
14 October - 13 November 2021

Working on the Mountain

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens is pleased to present a new show by Eric Zamuco called “Working on the Mountain” taken from the title of a book of essays by N.V.M. Gonzales. In this series of work, the mixed media artist ponders on the metaphor of geologic accretion and formation found in ancient temples and applies it to objects in the thick of instability and ruin.

MANILA
14 October - 13 November 2021

Maria Taniguchi

Silverlens, Manila

SILVERLENS is pleased to present room of phases, a new solo exhibition by Maria Taniguchi. This marks the third individual presentation by the artist with the gallery; her previous shows include: Maria Taniguchi (2014) in Singapore and Manila, and Maria Taniguchi (2017). Seriality tempts us to fixate on the most obvious deviations in Maria Taniguchi’s new work. In a suite of square canvases painted checkered, a portion stripped of paint or a section wherein color does not take may mean disengaging from the illusion of symmetry or the body reaching its limit. In both cases, pattern asks us to reckon with its gesture and technology of iteration. In Taniguchi’s work, each canvas is created using silkscreen, using a thin layer of paint.

MANILA
04 September - 02 October 2021

Vic Balanon, Yasmin Sison-Ching, Chati Coronel, Nona Garcia, Mit Jai Inn, Winner Jumalon, Yayoi Kusama, Pow Martinez, Maya Muñoz, Elaine Navas, Bernardo Pacquing, Norberto Roldan, Don Salubayba, Wire Tuazon

Collectors Plus

Silverlens, Manila

SILVERLENS presents the second edition of Collectors Plus. For this edition, we are presenting as its core, Philippine contemporary art from the years 2005 - 2019, from four collectors based in Hong Kong and Manila. The core collection was put together by an early patron of southeast Asian art who travelled the region extensively in the early 2000’s from his base in Hong Kong.

MANILA
04 September - 02 October 2021

Issay Rodriguez

Brighter Than Many Ever See

Silverlens, Manila

Continuing her investigation on the links between ecology and humanism, Issay Rodriguez’s Brighter Than Many Ever See probes narratives and meanings found in the cultivation and domestication of ornamental plants.

MANILA
31 July - 28 August 2021

Celestial Data for Daydreaming

Silverlens, Manila

In “Celestial Data for Daydreaming”, Chati Coronel engages her curiosity and passion for cosmology to explore the ephemeral and the eternal. Each piece is titled after one of the seven classical planets of ancient Greece. While she worked on this series, she listened to a playlist that moved her to ponder the skies and our place in the world.

MANILA
31 July - 28 August 2021

Gary-Ross Pastrana

Things that came to light

Silverlens, Manila

Moving forward to this year, marked by a global pandemic and localized lockdowns, Pastrana has found himself working in another art space--this time, in isolation, and in a studio at Calle Wright, Malate, while the rest of the world’s art programs and exhibitions have seemingly come to a pause. This compelled him to confront more intensively this material left at his disposal—his usual respite from more conceptual work—his paper cuttings, his collages. They became for him, during confinement, the moment's medium. And it was in this moment, where the proclivity for making collage also required careful introspection and consideration.

MANILA
26 June - 24 July 2021

Silverlens, Manila

A collection of works that analyze the experience of space (both real and virtual) and how the outside world influences inner identity. The world went into a period of mass transition, and on top of that the artist relocated from New York to Manila (in the middle of the pandemic). Accordingly, the works span observations and cultural remnants and experiences from the USA and the Philippines.

MANILA
26 June - 24 July 2021

Luis Antonio Santos

Silverlens, Manila

A threshold demarcates space. It signifies a boundary, yet doubly exists as an indicator of the point at which something begins to change. We use “threshold” to measure the very limit of things like pain, temperature, longing, rooms. Similarly, the imagery Luis Antonio Santos utilizes for Threshold stands in as marks. The subjects of the work themselves are liminal spaces, enclosed in a constant sort of in-betweenness, delineating one state from another: the pause before a change.

MANILA
26 June - 24 July 2021

Micaela Benedicto

Silverlens, Manila

Micaela Benedicto’s latest exhibition, Volume, extends the artist and architect’s exploration of the spatial dimensions of memory and loss. Working at the intersection of photography and sculpture, Benedicto exploits the alchemical properties of metal and paper to construct pieces that register never-to-be-completed processes of becoming and ruination.

MANILA
14 May - 19 June 2021

Leslie de Chavez

A Lonely Picket in the Balcony

Silverlens, Manila

A diverse artist by practice, Leslie de Chavez features paintings, sculptures, and installations in his latest show. In keeping with his socio-political oeuvre, these works investigate the struggles and inequalities faced by the marginalised – victims of systemic injustice, brought about by political indulgences.

MANILA
14 May - 19 June 2021

Kitty Taniguchi

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Kitty Taniguchi. The show called Flower Moon continues the artist’s exploration of imagery revolving around personal mythologies set in landscape.

MANILA
05 May - 15 May 2021

Various Artists
Curated By Isa Lorenzo and Rachel Rillo

Art Fair Philippines 2021 at Silverlens

Silverlens, Manila

SILVERLENS is pleased to participate in the ninth edition of Art Fair Philippines with eight capsule exhibitions. In addition to presenting these collections in the event’s online portal, the shows will be installed from 5 through 10 May 2021 at Silverlens’ Makati location. A selection of thirty-six artists will be presented in groups of four or five each.

MANILA
20 March - 24 April 2021

Santiago Bose
Curated By Patrick Flores

Striking Affinities

Silverlens, Manila

SILVERLENS is pleased to present Striking Affinities, a solo exhibition by Santiago Bose. This show, curated by Patrick Flores, marks the second cycle of the three-part project planned for the late artist; the first instalment, Bare Necessities occurred in 2019.

MANILA
11 February - 13 March 2021

Silverlens, Manila

Nicole Coson returns for her second solo exhibition at Silverlens with 'Exoskeleton', an extension of her recent thesis presentation at the Royal College of Art in London. These new works, produced during the pandemic, respond to society’s sudden shift from public to private.

MANILA
11 February - 13 March 2021

Frank Callaghan

Silverlens, Manila

Frank Callaghan returns to Silverlens for a solo exhibition entitled ‘Flux’, his seventh with the gallery. In these new photographs, Callaghan desists from his previous rule of passive observation, instead exploring disruption by intervening restful scenes to encourage disarray.

MANILA
09 January - 06 February 2021

Gene Paul Martin

spiritual thug lyf

Silverlens, Manila

Gene Paul Martin returns to SILVERLENS with 'spiritual thug lyf', a solo exhibition by the contemporary artist that collapses the boundaries of abstraction, figuration, and landscape genres.

MANILA
09 January - 06 February 2021

Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Gina Osterloh, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Maria Taniguchi, Lee Aguinaldo, Jose Joya, Arturo Luz, Fernando Zobel
Curated By Yael Buencamino

Considered Gestures

Silverlens, Manila

A group exhibition curated by Yael Buencamino, 'Considered Gestures' forges a partnership between the modern and the contemporary by featuring eight Philippine artists from two distinct generations.

MANILA
05 December - 23 December 2020

Hanna Pettyjohn

Silverlens, Manila

'In Medias Res' by Hanna Pettyjohn presents new paintings from Anastomosis and sculptures that were completed only very recently. These new pieces heavily reference her past works, and are replete with familiar memories and experiences.

MANILA
05 December - 23 December 2020

Navigating the Abstract

Silverlens, Manila

'Navigating the Abstract' features a range of Pop-inflected paintings and conceptual texts by Dina Gadia that explore the ambiguity of representation through image and language.

MANILA
05 December - 23 December 2020

Silverlens, Manila

In 'Glass Horizon', Halili continues his practice of painting on capiz shells with eleven new miniature oil pieces.

MANILA
17 October - 21 November 2020

Masks and Spirits

Silverlens, Manila

An internationally prominent series, seven of these Masks and Spirits works currently hang in the eleventh edition of the Berlin Biennale; three are in the collection of the Tate London. After decades of travel, we feel very privileged to share in the tremendous honour of hosting these trapunto paintings within our own gallery space.

MANILA
17 October - 21 November 2020

Norberto Roldan

Silverlens, Manila

The pieces Roldan displays in this exhibition were salvaged from the fire that ravaged Green Papaya, where he stored a majority of his oeuvre; the artist has also since constructed three new installations, which he will debut in this exhibition.

MANILA
17 October - 21 November 2020

Yvonne Quisumbing

Apothecary: Prelude

Silverlens, Manila

In the gallery's Front Room, Quisumbing presents a new collection of works from her APOTHECARY series: ten portraits on three-dimensional surfaces, featuring local plants that treat women's ailments during conception, birth and recovery after birth.

MANILA
17 September - 10 October 2020

Chati Coronel, Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Dina Gadia, Nona Garcia, Geraldine Javier, Lou Lim, Pow Martinez, Wawi Navarroza, Bernardo Pacquing, Yvonne Quisumbing, Maria Taniguchi, James Brown, Louie Cordero, Mariano Ching, Melvin Culaba, Dennis Gonzales, Marie Harnett, Maria Justus, Arturo Sanchez Jr., Julião Sarmento, Yasmin Sison, Rosemarie Trockel

Collectors Plus

Silverlens, Manila

Collectors Plus is a group exhibition that features a selection of contemporary works completed in the last twenty years, mainly by Philippine artists. Culled from prominent collectors living in Manila and Singapore, the pieces in this show range in style, subject, and medium – all boasting individuality.

MANILA
17 September - 10 October 2020

Gary-Ross Pastrana

some recent (& disrupted) projects

Silverlens, Manila

In what the artist refers to as ‘a gathering of fragments’, Pastrana will present a few pieces from the cancelled Art Basel Hong Kong 2020, which he was scheduled to participate in; a frame of collages he created at the onset of the quarantine; as well as individually framed pieces from his 'collage_a_day_everyday' project.

MANILA
01 August - 12 September 2020

Patricia Perez Eustaquio

Hoarding Fossils in Blankets

Silverlens, Manila

Patricia Perez Eustaquio utilises textiles as a vehicle to mirror social, historical, and temporal ruminations. In each of the tapestries she presents, the artist transposes paintings created by Philippine masters through modern processes, consequently altering the meanings and dynamics of the works in reference. Eustaquio invites viewers to reconsider and reinterpret the original compositions, as she begins a dialogue with history and the future from the present.

MANILA
01 August - 12 September 2020

Dashiell Manley

Dashiell Manley

Silverlens, Manila

Originally planned for the months of March and April, Manley’s premier exhibition was postponed due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Now, Silverlens is presenting a vibrant selection of the young artist’s oeuvre in a format fit for the pandemic: a hybrid show, happening simultaneously between Manila and Los Angeles, where Manley is based.

MANILA
25 June - 24 July 2020

Corinne de San Jose

Little Blue Window

Silverlens, Manila

Little Blue Window by Corinne de San Jose takes off from the beginning of the lockdown in Manila, straddling in between what once was and what now is. Various aspects of our lifestyles radically transformed during this time, from the ways we communicate to our sudden lack of control. Corinne de San Jose attempts to find peace through her latest experiments with cyanotype prints.

MANILA
25 June - 24 July 2020

Sustainable Anxiety

Silverlens, Manila

Sustainable Anxiety features eight new paintings that offer keen observations on living in this digital age. The artist sheds light on how we have become spectators of our own downfalls as we inch closer to the apocalypse. His animated ghouls and misfits creep onto the white walls of the gallery once again, in this wry yet insightful take on how we live today.

MANILA
02 June - 20 June 2020

Bernardo Pacquing, Chati Coronel, Corinne de San Jose, Dina Gadia, Eric Zamuco, Frank Callaghan, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Gina Osterloh, Gregory Halili, Hanna Pettyjohn, Martha Atienza, Mit Jai Inn, Nicole Coson, Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Norberto Roldan, Pow Martinez, Renato Orara, Ryan Villamael, Wawi Navarroza, James Clar, Elaine Navas

Anticipating the Day

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens' first online only show

MANILA
22 February - 21 March 2020

Gregory Halili, Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Dina Gadia, Bernardo Pacquing, Pow Martinez, Wawi Navarroza, Ryan Villamael, Mark Andy Garcia, Maya Muñoz, Raffy T. Napay, Elaine Navas, Christina Quisumbing Ramilo, Pope Bacay, Marionne Contreras, Jigger Cruz, Rocelie Delfin, Paolo Icasas, Bree Jonson, Popo San Pascual, Nicole Tee, Liv Vinluan
Curated By Gregory Halili

Searching Sanctuary

Silverlens, Manila

Curated by Gregory Halili, this group exhibition comes at the height of the climate crisis, surveying relevant works from 21 contemporary artists.

MANILA
22 February - 21 March 2020

Judy Freya Sibayan

Performing My Self-archive, My Other Body: An Autobiographical Installation Art Performance, A Work of Institutional Critique

Silverlens, Manila

SILVERLENS is pleased to present Filipino artist Judy Freya Sibayan’s 'Performing My Self-archive, My Other Body: An Autobiographical Installation Art Performance, A Work of Institutional Critique'. This work is a continuation of Sibayan’s ongoing project on her self-archive of 45 years. The conceptual artist intends to engage the audience in conversations on artists and their archives.

MANILA
22 February - 21 March 2020

Bernardo Pacquing

A Spectacle of Coming Together

Silverlens, Manila

Using numerous mediums ranging from paint to wood, Pacquing’s paintings and assemblages continue todefy common notions of abstraction.

MANILA
20 February - 23 February 2020

Photography Booth: Wawi Navarroza, Art Fair Philippines

Booth 11, The Link, Makati

For SILVERLENS' Art Fair Philippines Photography Section presentation, we showcase six of Wawi Navarroza’s captivating self-portraits. Using a tableau format, Navarroza’s self-portraits both reflect the artist’s life and reference art history. Each carefully curated scene touches upon the intersection of identity and culture. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

MANILA
20 February - 23 February 2020

Noise Field #1b

Art Fair Philippines, The Link, Makati

For his special presentation in Art Fair Philippines 2020 in partnership with AC Motors, James Clar creates a laser and liquid installation titled “Noise Field”. Using a laserscanner and a sprinkler system, Clar creates a naturally generated field of visual static.

MANILA
18 January - 15 February 2020

Silverlens, Manila

Known for his introspective approach to art, Eric Zamuco continues to transform everyday objects into thought-provoking pieces. At Cosmic Grounds, Zamuco presents new sculptures and assemblages that encourage audiences to consider the wonder of the mundane.

MANILA
18 January - 15 February 2020

Syaiful Garibaldi

Silverlens, Manila

SILVERLENS and ROH Projects (Jakarta) continue their pioneering series of inter-gallery exchange and collaboration with Indonesian artist Syaiful Garibaldi’s solo exhibition, 'Sudor'. Garibaldi closely examines objects from the natural world from a new perspective to create abstract forms of art and takes inspiration from the human body for his latest paintings.

MANILA
07 December 2019 - 11 January 2020

Corinne de San Jose

Silverlens, Manila

In 59.59, Corinne De San Jose combined her artistic instincts as both sound designer and photographer, trying to make sense of the duality between sound and silence.

MANILA
07 December 2019 - 11 January 2020

Equation of State

Silverlens, Manila

Featuring new videos and kinetic mangrove plant baths, 'Equation of State' finds Martha Atienza back at Bantayan Island in Cebu, Philippines, documenting how climate change is affecting the island and its inhabitants.

MANILA
07 December 2019 - 11 January 2020

Silverlens, Manila

In 2018, Yee I-Lann started working with weavers from Keningau in the Borneo interior and Pulau Omadal, Semporna, in the Sulu Sea. ZIGAZIG ah! is her first solo exhibition of new works emerging from these collaborations across her homeland, or tanahair (literally “earth water”).

MANILA
30 November 2019

Bernardo Pacquing

New Clark City River Zone, Capas, Tarlac, Philippines

SILVERLENS is thrilled to announce that Filipino artist Bernardo Pacquing’s interactive outdoor art installation 'Domes Village' (2019) can now be explored in New Clark City River Zone.

MANILA
26 October - 23 November 2019

Christina Quisumbing Ramilo & Pinky Ibarra Urmaza

Silverlens, Manila

SILVERLENS is pleased to bring together Christina Quisumbing Ramilo and Pinky Ibarra Urmaza in a two-man exhibition Dead Horse Bay. This exhibition will highlight the artists’ similarities– they both lived in New York City and their work are involved with the assembly of found objects and discarded fragments imbued with history.

MANILA
26 October - 23 November 2019

Silverlens, Manila

SILVERLENS is pleased to announce 'THE GARDEN', Maya Muñoz’ third solo exhibition with the gallery. Spanning the gallery’s main space, the exhibition will present fifteen new paintings featuring neon garden and volcanic landscapes.

MANILA
21 September - 19 October 2019

Mit Jai Inn
Curated By Erin Gleeson

Silverlens, Manila

Mit extends his homage and playful dissent from tenants of modernism, with rich crossings into the realm and language of textiles and weaving. Actants sees the revered geometry of the grid and its line segments unbound, transformed into threedimensional, pliable modular units the artist refers to as ribbons.

MANILA
17 August - 14 September 2019

Wawi Navarroza: Self-Portraits & The Tropical Gothic

Silverlens, Manila

Self-portraits have been a recurring theme in Navarroza's twenty-year practice, but this is the first exhibition focusing solely on the form. Navarroza will be showing eight new pieces alongside three older works from different years, alternating between muse and visual memoir.

MANILA
17 August - 14 September 2019

Santiago Bose
Curated By Patrick D. Flores

Bare Necessities

Silverlens, Manila

Bare Necessities focuses on the impulses of his artistic language and how these are harnessed to produce distinct form, critical discourse, and urgent impulse. The political work of art begins with the gesture of transforming the material of the world.

MANILA
17 August - 14 September 2019

Silverlens, Manila

'Noise Field #1' is James Clar's first solo exhibition in the Philippines and with Silverlens.

MANILA
13 July - 10 August 2019

They Might Be Giants

Silverlens, Manila

SILVERLENS is pleased to present 'They Might Be Giants', an exhibition of six new large-scale paintings by Jonathan Ching. His third solo exhibition with the gallery, the elements seen in the streets of Manila where Ching grew up are the starting point of this suite of paintings.

MANILA
13 July - 10 August 2019

Saturation Imbalance

Silverlens, Manila

In 'Saturation Imbalance', Luis Lorenzana continues to develop new ways of thinking about and working with texture, pattern, and color. While previous exhibits hinted at an artist consciously operating within a tradition while subverting it, this latest series finds him grappling primarily with his own instinct to correct and to make harmonious.

MANILA
13 July - 10 August 2019

Behold a City + A Paradise Lost

Silverlens, Manila

SILVERLENS is pleased to present selected works by Ryan Villamael from his Art Fair Philippines' Special Projects presentation, 'Behold a City' and solo show, 'A Paradise Lost.'

MANILA
01 June - 06 July 2019

Silverlens, Manila

As a world-renowned accessories designer, Valdes has spent the better part of the last 15 years cultivating a body of work obsessed with the idea of permanence, of beadwork so refined, materials so battle-tested, and hands so accomplished that they dare claim immortality. On her second solo exhibition for Silverlens Galleries, the artist pulls back the curtain and in a gesture that betrays both confidence and vulnerability, exposes the fragility of her work and process.

MANILA
01 June - 06 July 2019

Catalina Africa

The Quality of Sunlight is a Filter Through Which Our Thoughts and Feelings Pass

Silverlens, Manila

SILVERLENS is pleased to present 'The Quality of Sunlight is a Filter Through Which Our Thoughts and Feelings Pass', Catalina Africa’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. This show presents paintings, objects, and video that explore the genre of landscape painting reconfigured into the artist’s unique visual language of patterned abstraction along with a personal narrative of illumination inspired by life near the sea.

MANILA
23 March - 17 April 2019

Tessy Pettyjohn

Continuing Growth

Silverlens, Manila

SILVERLENS is pleased to announce 'Continuing Growth', Tessy Pettyjohn’s first solo exhibition in the gallery. A renowned pioneer of Philippine pottery, Pettyjohn’s ceramic works are often inspired by the flowers and plants in her garden.

MANILA
23 March - 17 April 2019

Chati Coronel, Bernardo Pacquing, Jose Santos III

Silverlens, Manila

The twist is what we are interested in. When does something become art? When do materials rise above their humble parts to become more than their sum? When Pacquing ratchets together hard and soft objects to form impossible but consummate unions; when Coronel paints layers on layers of color and text to reveal a final figure that was there from the beginning; and when Santos builds assemblages into cascading packets of the national psyche.

MANILA
21 February - 24 February 2019

Special Exhibitions: Ray Albano, Art Fair Philippines

The Link, Makati

Ray Albano was an important cipher in that precarious phase or threshold of Philippine contemporary art in which the competing discourses of identity, tradition, and modernity sought to constitute what it meant to be contemporary and Filipino amid the push and pull of becoming local and international, of being western and native.

MANILA
21 February - 24 February 2019

Various Artists

Art Fair Philippines, Photography Boooth

The Link, Makati

Silverlens is pleased to participate in Art Fair Philippines' Photography Section presenting works from various artists.

MANILA
21 February - 24 February 2019

Special Exhibitions: Ryan Villamael, Art Fair Philippines

The Link, Makati

SILVERLENS is pleased to co-present 'Behold A City' by Ryan Villamael as part of Art Fair Philippines 2019 Special Exhibitions.

MANILA
16 February - 16 March 2019

Leslie de Chavez, Geraldine Javier, Agus Suwage, Melati Suryodarmo

Silverlens, Manila

SILVERLENS is proud to present '+63 | +62,' a four-person show of major artists featuring Agus Suwage and Melati Suryodarmo from Indonesia and Geraldine Javier and Leslie de Chavez from the Philippines. This is the first time they will be showing together. Referencing the Philippines’ (+63) and Indonesia’s (+62) country dial code, this exhibition explores how these two next-door countries who are strangers to each other’s cultures, are connected through their own rich art histories.

MANILA
12 January - 09 February 2019

A Paradise Lost

Silverlens, Manila

For this presentation, Villamael will premiere a new body of work that builds upon his ongoing dialogue with the contentious subject of Philippine History.

MANILA
12 January - 09 February 2019

Jon Pettyjohn, Tessy Pettyjohn, Alvin Tan Teck Heng, Joey de Castro
Curated By Tropical Blaze and Boxplot

Silverlens, Manila

SILVERLENS opened 2019 with 'Watchfire', a group exhibition that brought together five artists who have each made a critical contribution to the development of contemporary ceramics in Asia: Tessy Pettyjohn, Jon Pettyjohn, and Joey de Castro of the Philippines. Shozo Michikawa of Japan, and Alvin Tan Teck Heng of Singapore.

MANILA
28 November 2018 - 01 January 2019

Shangri-La The Fort Holiday Tree

Shangri-La at The Fort, Manila

In 'Payapang Daigdig,' Ryan Villamael applies his trademark latticework to mirrors, in order to reimagine the Christmas tree as a stark, illuminating, and somewhat jagged object.

MANILA
21 November - 22 December 2018

Painting Palettes / Palette Paintings II

Silverlens, Manila

It began as a dream by professor, mentor and confidant the late Roberto Chabet: a series of paintings of palettes. And Elaine Roberto-Navas happily obliged, first in 2014 then presently for the exhibition 'Painting Palettes/ Palette Paintings II'. Each palette collected from friends and colleagues turn into artefacts that intimately embodies its possessor.

MANILA
21 November - 22 December 2018

Christina Quisumbing Ramilo, Pam Yan Santos, Yasmin Sison

Silverlens, Manila

The three-woman exhibition 'Ordo Ab Chao', a Latin expression for ‘order out of chaos’ or ‘order from disorder’, dissects the search for order in the creative processes of Christina Quisumbing Ramilo, Yasmin Sison and Pam Yan-Santos while in the state of constant mental and physical disarray.

MANILA
20 October - 17 November 2018

Mit Jai Inn, Aditya Novali, Nicole Coson
Curated By Isa Lorenzo

Painting, Differently

Silverlens, Manila

'Painting, Differently' brings together artists who are using paint / pigment as material laid onto a surface. The colors and markings are not representative of anything particular but are statements of medium. The statement is one of labor and repetition. The surfaces are variable, from plexi-glass to jute sack.

MANILA
20 October - 17 November 2018

Frank Callaghan, Corinne de San Jose, Issay Rodriguez, Teo Esguerra
Curated By Rachel Rillo

Silverlens, Manila

Steering away from the typical photography exhibitions, 'Equivalent/s' pursues the idea and methods of abstraction in the medium that is photography.

MANILA
18 October - 23 December 2018

Thirteen Artists Awards

Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila

The Thirteen Artists Awards is a then-biennial, and now triennial event, founded by the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1970 to give recognition to exemplary artists in the field of contemporary visual art.

MANILA
18 September - 13 October 2018

Heman Chong, Phi Phi Oanh, Donna Ong

Depth of Surface

Silverlens, Manila

SILVERLENS and FOST Gallery (Singapore) are pleased to announce 'Depth of Surface', a group exhibition marking the first collaboration between both galleries. Hosted by SILVERLENS, 'Depth of Surface' brings together works by Heman Chong (Singapore), Phi Phi Oanh (Vietnam) and Donna Ong (Singapore). Through the artists’ individual treatment of the two-dimensional plane, the show collectively constitutes the access point to investigate their distinctive practices.

MANILA
18 September - 13 October 2018

Norberto Roldan

How can you jump over your shadow when you don't have one anymore?

Silverlens, Manila

What is the subject of Roldan’s reading? Why is seriality triggered by, and what does it continue to activate? What we encounter in Roldan’s solo exhibitions are the composites of objects that come together through his practiced impulse as an artist known to write and re/write the semantics of indices.

MANILA
24 August 2018 - 28 June 2020

Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila

An installation composed of finely cut latticework from replicas of geographical maps, Ryan Villamael's 'Locus Amoenus' is installed at the staircase of the Ateneo Art Gallery.

MANILA
01 August 2018

Bernardo Pacquing

Lubi Plantation, Kopiat Island, Davao

"Earth Mounds" by Bernardo Pacquing is the first installation at the Art Island Project located in the southern Philippines.

MANILA
07 July - 04 August 2018

Gary-Ross Pastrana

Utopia Hasn't Failed Me Yet

Silverlens, Manila

In this exhibition of new collages, Pastrana's initial plan is to echo aspects of On Kawara's date paintings. He set out to develop his own simplified yet consistent studio practice, manageable to a degree that it can result in a new work everyday and overall projected to be sustainable in the long run (or for as long as he physically can)

MANILA
07 July - 04 August 2018

Silverlens, Manila

In 'Zones', Gina Osterloh carries her trademark anti-portrait strategies into the realm of abstract schemata. Dots, dashes, circles, lines, and comma shapes appear inside and outside delineated frameworks that tease the viewer with the possibility of meaning but refuse to indicate precisely how to view them.

MANILA
02 June - 30 June 2018

Luis Antonio Santos

(sounds fading, distant. sounds distant, muted)

Silverlens, Manila

SILVERLENS is pleased to announce Luis Antonio Santos’ third solo show with the gallery, '(sounds fading, distant. sounds distant, muted)'. His process in tackling representation constantly changes, but his material, corrugated galvanized iron sheets, remain a constant, becoming a point of discussion and reference in his work.

MANILA
02 June - 30 June 2018

Gene Paul Martin

Constructed by Chance

Silverlens, Manila

Gene Paul Martin’s studio is a separate structure tucked deep behind a bungalow in Quezon City’s Project 8. The Projects being among the first residential subdivisions built in this sprawling city after the war. The density of street life, hand-in-hand both domestic and difficult, are front and center. Martin, a young artist of 28, presents new paintings about this street life.

MANILA
28 April - 25 May 2018

Countercurrents

Silverlens, Manila

'Countercurrents' marks the first time these artists will show together. In this exhibition of new works, Garcia and Halili dialogue with each other and one another’s practices, both drawn to the sea

MANILA
22 March - 21 April 2018

Stoneware Terrain

Silverlens, Manila

SILVERLENS is pleased to announce Jon Pettyjohn’s second solo exhibition in the gallery, 'Stoneware Terrain'. In this series of new works, Pettyjohn embarks on a search for his holy grail: whether it be stoneware or porcelain, it has to be a unique material that the potter could mine and directly use from the ground.

MANILA
22 March - 21 April 2018

Pow Martinez, Chih-Hung Liu, Jhong Jiang-Ze, Tang Jo-Hung

Silverlens, Manila

In the spirit of collaboration, SILVERLENS annually invites like-minded galleries around the region for a curatorial program exchange. In the group exhibition 'Chaos', SILVERLENS hosts Mind Set Art Center (Taipei) in Manila with three of their artists Liu Chih-Hung (b. 1985, Taiwan), Jhong Jiang-Ze (b. 1981, Taipei), Tang Jo-Hung (b. 1975, Taipei). They will be joined by SILVERLENS artist Pow Martinez (b. 1983, Philippines). The series of new works exhibit a colorful chaos, creating a dialogue responding to the current events in one’s nation and the turmoil of one’s mind.

MANILA
17 February - 17 March 2018

The Infinite Yes

Silverlens, Manila

In this series of large new works, Chati Coronel has assembled a suite of vibrantly colored panels that reference creation myths from around the world and their recognizable leitmotifs: first woman and man; contact with the human and the divine; order out of chaos.

MANILA
17 February - 17 March 2018

Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo & Syagini Ratna Wulan

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens and ROH Projects (Jakarta) continue their pioneering series of inter-gallery exchange and collaboration with the exhibition Iris, the first major presentation of large works by Indonesian artists Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo and Syagini Ratna Wulan in Manila.

MANILA
13 January - 10 February 2018

Corinne de San Jose

I've been hiding in the smallest places

Silverlens, Manila

'I’ve Been Hiding in the Smallest Places' is Corinne de San Jose’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. The series of schlagmetal on photographs features the artist’s skin, macroscopic and abstracted.

MANILA
13 January - 10 February 2018

Silverlens, Manila

SILVERLENS is pleased to announce Rafael T. Napay’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, 'Ugat'. He uses vibrant colors in a presentation of tapestries, sculptures, and his largest weave painting to date, at approximately 8 by 42 feet. This large anchor piece stands and creates a landscape in the gallery space, an environment filled with foliage, roots, water, and flora.

MANILA
02 December 2017 - 06 January 2018

Silverlens, Manila

Featuring nine large-scale works accomplished through monotype printmaking, the show captures and reterritorializes camouflage within the ambit of the optical, interrogating its capacity to imitate, blend into, and ultimately subsume reality.

MANILA
02 December 2017 - 06 January 2018

Silverlens, Manila

For 'Horizon', Lou Lim’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, one may initially suspect that Lim has purposely shifted to painting and took it upon herself to create the single, largest piece she’s made to date: an expansive and monumental 7 x 12 ft. landscape painting with a hazy, idyllic, pastel-hued depiction of an equally expansive sea meeting the sky.

MANILA
26 October - 25 November 2017

Patricia Perez Eustaquio

Silverlens, Manila

In Still Life, Eustaquio revisits the idea of art-historical still life works and their implications, alluding to contemporary martyrs of human excess and appetite. She continues exploring materials, objects, and fascination of the impulse to create, consume, and destroy while echoing her past show, Swine (2004), dwelling on appetite and her concerns as a previously avowed vegetarian.

MANILA
21 September - 17 October 2017

Bernardo Pacquing

Bernardo Pacquing

Silverlens, Manila

Bernardo Pacquing, his new solo show, invites us into his collection that surveys his drawings, collage, paintings, assemblage and installations. It is a deep dive into Pacquing’s oeuvre and artistic career, featuring continuing series like the Carcass paintings started in 2004; drawing on paper from 2000; and mixed media works on paper from late 2010s. Bernardo Pacquing’s resilience and prolificacy allows him to produce artistic ventures that touches on actuality and hints on the sublime.

MANILA
02 September - 05 October 2017

Norberto Roldan
Curated By Patrick D. Flores

Rituals of Invasion and Resistance (1992 – 2017)

Jorge B. Vargas Museum, Quezon City

Jorge B. Vargas Museum, in cooperation with Silverlens Galleries presents 'Rituals of Invasion and Resistance (1992 – 2017)' by Norberto Roldan, a survey show exhibiting 25 years of work from 1992 to 2017.

MANILA
17 August - 16 September 2017

Frank Callaghan

Silverlens, Manila

In 'Search/Light', Frank Callaghan continues his night shooting that has become his signature.

MANILA
17 August - 16 September 2017

Silverlens, Manila

'Almost Not' contemplates on the thresholds of meaning reached through new associations between objects and their recontextualizations. Here, the principal object being military field gurney stretchers, Eric Zamuco re-imagines their appearance by counter-weighting them with other objects devised from either personal histories or formal transgressions.

MANILA
13 July - 12 August 2017

Situation Amongst The Furnishings

Silverlens, Manila

'Situation Amongst The Furnishings' is Dina Gadia's sixth solo show with the gallery, and her first show of all paintings. Known for her book sized collages that bring together unexpected juxtapositions of vintage comics, text, and popular culture, she ventures bravely and successfully into more complex constructions with Situations.

MANILA
13 July - 12 August 2017

Silverlens, Manila

In his new body of work, 'Techno Utopian', Pow Martinez ponders on the failure of utopian ideals and its purported progress, pitting technology against a theory of the taboo.

MANILA
07 June - 08 July 2017

Hanna Pettyjohn

Silverlens, Manila

The works on display in “a mantle of,” Hanna Pettyjohn’s solo exhibition at SILVERLENS, enrich a narrative developed in prior shows. Progressing the natural cycle of this exploration has facilitated a series of paintings and sculptures that both dismantle and reinforce what came before.

MANILA
06 May - 03 June 2017

Silverlens, Manila

In 'MEDUSA', Wawi Navarroza looks to stone, and in particular marble, to discuss ideas of landscape, myth and material via the island of Romblon in the Philippines.

MANILA
06 May - 03 June 2017

Issay Rodriguez

Silverlens, Manila

Issay Rodriguez takes these silent emotional signifiers of oblivion strewn across the material culture of everyday life into the gallery with utterance into her second solo exhibition at Silverlens.

MANILA
29 March - 27 April 2017

Nature Into Art

Silverlens, Manila

Shozo Michikawa was sent to Manila in the mid 1990’s to search for Philippine potters for an event in Osaka. We’re so lucky he found us. He was one of the first in- ternational artists to take an interest in the local ceramic art scene and his friendship opened important doors for us.

MANILA
28 March - 29 April 2017

COUNTERNARRATIVES

Silverlens, Manila

Pio Abad continues his engagement with Philippine political history, specifically looking at the problematic cultural legacy of the Marcos dictatorship in light of recent attempts to rehabilitate this dark chapter in the nation’s history. In a new body of work, he reconfigures familiar narratives and excavates dismantled iconographies in an attempt to understand the seemingly breath taking pace at which this history has unravelled.

MANILA
14 February - 22 March 2017

Maria Taniguchi

Maria Taniguchi

Silverlens, Manila

This is Taniguchi’s first one-person exhibition in Manila since 2014, and since she won the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award Prize at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai (2015).

MANILA
14 February - 22 March 2017

Silverlens, Manila

'Epilogue' is comprised of several paper structures growing and spilling out of old books on the victories and defeats of humanity, collected by the artist on numerous trips to antique shops, book sales, and garage sales over the years. The subject is an interest recently piqued by the rapidly shifting political climate over the years.

MANILA
07 January - 04 February 2017

Silverlens, Manila

Composed of 15 works, Gregory Halili's Echo is a continuation of the artist's exploration of natural materials and one's symbiotic connection with nature.

MANILA
30 August - 04 October 2016

YEE I-LANN: 2005 – 2016

Ayala Museum, Manila

Ayala Museum and Silverlens are pleased to present Yee I-Lann: 2005–2016. A landmark exhibit, this is the first solo show for a Malaysian contemporary artist in the Ayala Museum.

MANILA
04 June - 02 July 2016

The Way In/The Way Out

Silverlens, Manila

Chati Coronel's fascination with human consciousness, in all its myriad permutations and implications, has been a sort of thematic bedrock that buttresses everything she does, both her terra firma and her terra incognita. But 'The Way In/ The Way Out' is probably her most overt exploration.

MANILA
30 April - 28 May 2016

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens is pleased to present "Anito," Martha Atienza’s video work that was selected for the Film Sector in the 2016 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong.

MANILA
18 January - 30 January 2016

Silverlens at Artspace@Helutrans, Singapore

The show features works from 'Ten Thousand Things that Breathe', a series of drawings on paper that the artist has been making since 1989.

MANILA
09 January - 06 February 2016

Gary-Ross Pastrana

The Untamed Wall

Silverlens, Manila

This series of works, done exclusively in the perfunctory manner of cutting and pasting, serve as Gary-Ross Pastrana's envoy to the more deliberate and confined nature of wall-bound works.

MANILA
26 November - 19 December 2015

Pow Martinez & Jigger Cruz

No Singing Allowed

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens is pleased to present 'No Singing Allowed', a two-man exhibition by painters Pow Martinez and Jigger Cruz.

MANILA
29 October - 21 November 2015

Silverlens, Manila

'Behold A City' is Ryan Villamael’s foray into the realm of photography as material and image source for his art. He pushes his métier by tracing his blade along the contours of built heritage pictures, as a way to reclaim what war has lost or what little sense of patrimony has been sacrificed in favor of the vulgar remedies that come with the upkeep of a dysfunctional metropolis aspiring to be modern.

MANILA
24 September - 24 October 2015

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Renato Orara’s more recent incarnations from the series 'Ten Thousand Things that Breathe', begun in 1989

MANILA
16 July - 15 August 2015

Hanna Pettyjohn

By Land or By Air

Silverlens, Manila

With 'By Land or By Air', SILVERLENS presents Thirteen Artists Award winner Hanna Pettyjohn’s first show of 2015. The 36 paintings comprise a work about the passage of time as well as all other passages; a migratory mentality known to all who live away from home.

MANILA
16 July - 15 August 2015

Nothing to See Here There Never Was

Silverlens, Manila

Composed of 14 photographic works and one 16mm film loop, 'Nothing to See Here, There Never Was' defies, exceeds, and often belies expectations. Bodies (or the lack thereof), techniques of viewing, and photographic modernity preoccupy Osterloh’s mind in this exhibition.

MANILA
10 June - 11 July 2015

Corinne de San Jose

The Week Ends The Week Begins

Silverlens, Manila

'The Week Ends The Week Begins', evenly halved into photography and video sections, with each half broken down further, is hooked on the process and effect of repetition.

MANILA
10 June - 11 July 2015

Bernardo Pacquing

Silverlens, Manila

Bernardo Pacquing distills into aesthetic encounters the sensate experience of quiet observation and work: making and growing things from the simplest of elements. 'Half Full' explores this period of flux in between: the transitional phase where seeds sprout into growths, where cells build up into more complex forms.

MANILA
07 May - 06 June 2015

Study in Reality No. 3

Silverlens, Manila

Atienza's first solo exhibition with Silverlens, this show presents a different facet of Atienza's art practice, whose works continue to expand as it explores the porous boundaries between art and life.

MANILA
26 March - 30 April 2015

At Odds with the Visual

Silverlens, Manila

In 'At Odds with the Visual', we find Gadia further delineating collage as an approach, and not a medium. We are shown, as an audience, that it is more and more about theft of image and the subsequent reappropriation; not just pictures-and-scissors-and-glue.

MANILA
06 March - 12 April 2015

A Short History of Decay

Silverlens, Singapore

'A Short History of Decay' is Pio Abad's first solo exhibition in Singapore. The exhibition is comprised of new drawings and sculptures that further explores the artist’s ongoing interest in inventories and the social and political implications of objects.

MANILA
17 January - 21 February 2015

Gabriel Barredo

Silverlens, Manila

In the latest work of Gabriel Barredo, an installation collectively titled 'Opera', instead of offering comforting sermons, he invites us to view the body itself, asking us to confront the mortality of the corpse, to contemplate upon its passing and empathize if not make sense of its beauty

MANILA
16 January - 01 March 2015

Silverlens, Singapore

Silverlens is pleased to present 'Memento' by Gregory Halili, a continuation of his December show in Manila.

MANILA
27 November - 20 December 2014

Silverlens, Manila

'Memento' focuses on Gregory Halili's interest and exploration about the notion of the life/death cycle. Halili used a material that is a vestige of nature - mother of pearl shells - to manifest our connection with nature.

MANILA
18 September - 18 October 2014

Maria Taniguchi

Maria Taniguchi

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens is proud to present a new piece from Maria Taniguchi's untitled paintings. With the painting, or perhaps more in relation to it, a video will be shown based on a fictional recollection of a group show set in Manila, where, guided by a disembodied voiceover the camera takes the viewer for a moon walk across the museum space.

MANILA
28 August - 30 September 2014

Pio Abad
Curated By Patrick D. Flores

The Collection of Jane Ryan and William Saunders

Jorge B. Vargas Museum, Quezon City

Jorge B. Vargas Museum, in cooperation with Silverlens Galleries, presents 'The Collection of Jane Ryan and William Saunders', a major solo exhibition by artist Pio Abad.

MANILA
01 August - 07 September 2014

Silverlens, Singapore

'Tabled' is Yee I-Lann's first exhibition at Silverlens. The exhibition features various work from Yee’s portfolio: Picturing Power (2013), Tabled (2013), YB Series (2010), Study of Lamprey’s Malaysian Male (2009), and Kerbau (2007).

MANILA
10 July - 09 August 2014

Frank Callaghan

Silverlens, Manila

In 'Dead Ends', Frank Callaghan photographs the boundaries and linear qualities of man-made structures.

MANILA
10 July - 09 August 2014

Silverlens, Manila

For his sixth solo show, Ryan Villamael departs from the wall-bound and framed structure of blank paper foliage and cuts instead a collection of printed archaic and contemporary maps, forming bell-jar encased sculptures, transforming the concept of map-as-index into map-as-object.

MANILA
20 June - 27 July 2014

The First Kiss on Earth

Silverlens, Singapore

In 'The First Kiss on Earth', Chati Coronel traces her subject back to its primordial origins, imagining the kiss in a time before language and attempting to frame this crucial moment of union before it was, or ever could be, set down in words.

MANILA
05 June - 05 July 2014

Soler Santos, Mona Santos, Luis Antonio Santos, Carina Santos, Isabel Santos

Gathered Narratives

Silverlens, Manila

The heritability of artistic and creative skills is an intriguing concept that serves as a sideshow to Gathered Narratives, which features a single family blessed with an abundance of talent. The works of the Santos family— composed of Soler (b. 1960), Mona (b. 1962) and their children Luis (b. 1985), Carina (b. 1988), and Isabel (b. 1990)—are, for the first time, gathered in a single exhibition.

MANILA
09 May - 15 June 2014

Gary-Ross Pastrana

Silverlens, Singapore

Gary-Ross Pastrana, a Filipino conceptual artist and curator examines the very nature and identity of objects in 99%, an exhibition presented at Silverlens, Gillman Barracks. Pastrana, who at the heart of his process questions and breaks down the very construct which surrounds an object, also decidedly gives it a new identity and makes it almost whole.

MANILA
30 April - 31 May 2014

Silverlens, Manila

'Tierra Salvaje' by Wawi Navarroza is composed of ten small-scale photographic works that combine abstracted and ephemeral “dirt/earth drawings” that are juxtaposed and physically layered on top of prints of her landscape images.

MANILA
11 April - 08 May 2014

Gary-Ross Pastrana
Curated By Patrick D. Flores

Jorge B. Vargas Museum, Quezon City

Jorge B. Vargas Museum, in cooperation with Silverlens Galleries, presents 'Summa', a major solo exhibition by conceptual artist Gary-Ross Pastrana.

MANILA
27 March - 26 April 2014

Caught Between Honor and Revenge, How Far Will One Man Go

Silverlens, Manila

'Caught Between Honor and Revenge, How Far Will One Man Go' showcases Pow Martinez’s purposefully banal, comic and perverse take on portraiture, group mentalities and the physically expressive qualities of painting.

MANILA
14 February - 22 March 2014

Corinne de San Jose & Christina Dy

The Circle Game

Silverlens, Manila

In 'The Circle Game', Corinne de San Jose and Christina Dy present a series of assemblages that combine photography with the craft of crochet.

MANILA
17 January - 23 February 2014

Maria Taniguchi

Maria Taniguchi

Silverlens, Singapore

Maria Taniguchi presents new large monochromatic brickwork paintings in this eponymous exhibition at Silverlens Gillman Barracks in Singapore.

MANILA
23 October - 23 November 2013

Every Tool Is A Weapon If You Hold It Right

Silverlens, Manila

'Every Tool Is A Weapon If You Hold It Right' is Pio Abad’s first solo presentation in Manila. Using the silk scarf as a template, Abad produces a fabric that turns into a luxurious page, the site of a contemporary vanitas.

MANILA
23 October - 23 November 2013

Silverlens, Manila

In “Territory,” Ryan Villamael returns to his intrinsic fascination with the natural sciences, but this time fashioning on paper images of skulls of random predatory animals, and strange mushrooms that sprout delicate, protective webs that echo the artist’s resolve to claim his stake on some metaphorical personal space.

MANILA
15 August - 13 September 2013

Gary-Ross Pastrana

On (or before) Photography / The silver + gelatin works

Silverlens, Manila

In 'On (or before) Photography: The silver + gelatin works', Gary-Ross Pastrana recoils from the accelerated advancements of a whole new culture of image-making, to meditate on the device that forever changed the way we perceive the world and how we sustain our memories of it

MANILA
02 August - 08 September 2013

Adaptable to New Redundancies

Silverlens, Singapore

In 'Adaptable to New Redundancies', Dina Gadia makes a more conscious effort to articulate her instinctual practice of assembling and stylizing from old magazines, posters, comics, encyclopedias, and her body of already existing work.

MANILA
23 July - 24 August 2013

Patricia Perez Eustaquio
Curated By Patrick D. Flores

The Future That Was

Jorge B. Vargas Museum, Quezon City

'The Future That Was' are musings on the structures and ideas that produce, frame and promote art and design. Taking her cue from the final chapter of Robert Hughes’ 'Shock of the New' of the same title, Eustaquio weaves a narrative that examines the ideas of innovation and novelty, cultural patronage and the social notions of timeliness and timelessness, i.e. fashion and its latitudes.

MANILA
11 July - 10 August 2013

Convenient Culture Prop

Silverlens, Manila

Dina Gadia’s trademark graphic style lined with sardonic feminist humor is on view in 'Convenient Culture Prop'.

MANILA
05 June - 06 July 2013

Silverlens, Manila

There is an absence of ego in 'UnPortraits'. The large canvases feel physically close and intimate, yet Chati Coronel has managed to leave out the sex and circus that so much of today's art now offers to an audience bent on short-lived frissons of excitement.

MANILA
05 June - 06 July 2013

ULTRAMAR, Part II: Hunt & Gather, Terraria

Silverlens, Manila

Project Terraria is Wawi Navarroza's public call for the urbanfolk of Metro Manila to forage for soil, plants, wild growth, moss, pebbles, and ephemera from unlikely places and meaningful locations in the city. The materials from various sources are then juxtaposed and arranged in terrariums by the artist, and photographed for exhibition "ULTRAMAR, Part II: Hunt & Gather, Terraria".

MANILA
25 April - 01 June 2013

Hanna Pettyjohn

The Glass Between Us

Silverlens, Manila

In 'The Glass Between Us', Hanna Pettyjohn's paintings are consistent in format and content only -- large portraits complemented by still life renderings of various articles of clothing -- the tone and hues, however, stand in pronounced contrast.

MANILA
01 March - 31 March 2013

Hanna Pettyjohn

Silverlens, Singapore

'Bundle' finds Hanna Pettyjohn returning to large scale portraits in close-up. Unlike her previous works in this format, the faces are unobscured by mask or mist. Rather, they are enveloped by disparate cuts of cloth and clothing

MANILA
10 January - 09 February 2013

Corinne de San Jose

Conversation 17

Silverlens, Manila

With 'Conversation 17', Corinne de San Jose methodically wraps everyday objects with fabric, neither to obscure nor hide, but to transform the materiality of her subjects— hammer, vase, wine bottle—into objets d’art.

MANILA
10 January - 09 February 2013

Silverlens, Manila

Setting up and packing house from the American Midwest to the East Coast till finally returning to homebase in the Philippines, Eric Zamuco’s fascination with the tenuousness of image and ramshackle materiality manifests this time around in 'Site of Marks' in its literally shredded traces of the artist’s recent past.

MANILA
29 November - 22 December 2012

Ultramar, Part 1: Falling Into Place, Gathered Throng

Silverlens, Manila

To intercept the velocities that would fling you off the coast, weight becomes a necessary language. In many ways, Wawi Navarroza touches upon several geographical features in filtering a grounding work that is 'Ultramar, Pt. 1. Falling Into Place, Gathered Throng.' The work refers to land, the coast, an artist’s (lost) archive- overall a distance and the shores that make up the ends of this length.

MANILA
20 September - 20 October 2012

Maria Taniguchi

Maria Taniguchi

Silverlens, Manila

To position Maria Taniguchi’s 'News', it is necessary to look into the centrality of the image in any conversation about art. WJT Mitchell writes in his essay, on “Word and Image” that visual image is key in the study of art history. Image has always been crucial to art’s ability to achieve emotive responses from its viewer. Familiarity with images and their construction allows us to enter into the language of the image and discern its various meanings.

MANILA
26 July - 18 August 2012

Silverlens, Manila

In this exhibition, Ryan Villamael attempts to explore and reexamine the concept of “landscape”.

MANILA
28 June - 21 July 2012

Silverlens, Manila

The figures in SkinSkin stand out, stark and naked against plain bright backgrounds that drip onto their bodies. But Chati Coronel turns the body into a second canvas, reminding us that our physical experiences are written on skin.

MANILA
24 May - 23 June 2012

Primal Salvo in Vibracolor

Silverlens, Manila

Pulp is the base matter of 'Primal Salvo In Vibracolor'. Its fundamental process is the mashup, that willfully mismatched juxtaposition of art and copy, specifically the taking of dated, banal images from old encyclopedias and lifestyle magazines.

MANILA
15 March - 14 April 2012

Cyborg Scallops

Silverlens, Manila

'Cyborg Scallops' is an escalation of Pow Martinez’ vision of the apocalypse rendered with hellish pop expressionism. The series features mutant figurations and monster mash-ups strewn allover barren landscapes of irradiated hues that paint the end of the world with sarcastic wit and gallows humor.

MANILA
26 October - 19 November 2011

Frank Callaghan

Moonshine Baseline

Silverlens, Manila

With his work firmly rooted in found nighttime landscapes, Frank Callaghan reveals his visual roots in 'Moonshine Baseline' by making his light source his subject matter. These are portraits of the moon hanging on the horizon.

MANILA
28 September - 19 October 2011

Patricia Perez Eustaquio

Silverlens, Manila

Inspired by what has happened and what she has seen or dreamt of since, Eustaquio churns this mix of the cerebral, the natural and the ethereal, and crafts a new show, entitled Cloud Country. In this show, Eustaquio showcases her characteristic work, paintings on shaped canvases, as well as new work cast from materials we haven’t seen her work with before-- crystal, bronze, a mirror and a photograph.

MANILA
03 August - 27 August 2011

Silverlens, Manila

By use of forced perspective with the camera and the manipulation of flatness, three-dimensionality and pattern, Gina Osterloh's 'Body Prop' creates an uneasy ground between portraiture and abstraction.

MANILA
29 June - 30 July 2011

Hanna Pettyjohn

Few and Far Between

Silverlens, Manila

In 'Few and Far Between', Pettyjohn once again journeys in time, taking fragments of her past and translating them to oil paintings of landscapes. Her pieces reflect an impression of an experience unlike her previous shows where she analyzed a thought.

MANILA
23 March - 23 April 2011

Silverlens, Manila

'DOMINION' is a new installment to Wawi Navarroza's body of works which tackles topography and heterotopic spaces. It presents the artist's return to landscape where she neither treats nature as a spectacle nor confines it into a picaresque framework.

MANILA
23 March - 23 April 2011

Corinne de San Jose & Christina Dy

A Very Short Flowering Season

Silverlens, Manila

Christina Dy and Corinne De San Jose present 'A Very Short Flowering Season', a series of photographs of women’s bare backs, layered with embroidered patterns of flowers and trees.

MANILA
19 January - 12 February 2011

Silverlens, Manila

'Cut Felt' stems from Ryan Villamael's childhood memories of doing paper cut outs, such as making paper snowflakes—folding the paper in equal parts, cutting out patterns, and then unfolding it to reveal the whole picture.

MANILA
24 November - 18 December 2010

Hanna Pettyjohn

Silverlens, Manila

'Year of Glad' is composed of four paintings of the people and the information Hanna Pettyjohn found during her personal mission to search for the missing or unclear pieces of her family’s history.

MANILA
01 September - 25 September 2010

An Hour in a Glass Balloon

Silverlens, Manila

'An Hour in a Glass Balloon' reveals a whimsical and magical world, which Chati Coronel explains as a world that “usually doesn’t get celebrated in art.” In her large-scale oil paintings she uses the woman as her focal point, revealing the duality of their strength and softness with bulbous, organic shapes.

MANILA
01 September - 25 September 2010

Silverlens, Manila

In 'Contra-Affair', Gadia uses three mediums: painting, collage and sculpture to explore “affairs of ideas/images that go against each other”—from a muscle man in a graveyard to a children’s textbook illustration with punk graphics.

MANILA
07 July - 24 July 2010

Corinne de San Jose

Some Die Young and Some Die Old

Silverlens, Manila

Amused by the trees’ simplicity and awkward twists and bumps, and their being in-between life and actual death, Corinne de San Jose had found the subject of her art. With black and white photographs, de San Jose zeroes in on the silhouette of the trees, but more so, their stillness in 'Some Die Young and Some Die Old'.

MANILA
09 June - 03 July 2010

Teodulo Protomartir

Being There 1946: The Legacy of Teodulo Protomartir

Silverlens, Manila

Beyond historical evidence, the significance of Teodulo Protomartir’s images is meaningful. Protomartir hands to the Filipino people cultural treasures that should remain part of Filipino consciousness and memory. Sixty-four years later, through this exhibit, we celebrate Protomartir because through him we were there too.

MANILA
17 March - 17 April 2010

Patricia Perez Eustaquio

Dear Sweet Filthy World

Silverlens, Manila

Patricia Perez Eustaquio continues her exploration of memory with 'Dear Sweet Filthy World', bridging Elvis Costello’s song of the same name with oil paintings, cardboard sculptures, and boats cut from felt and cast in epoxy resin. Through these objects, Eustaquio expresses memory as an idea, and memory as she made it.

MANILA
09 September - 03 October 2009

Frank Callaghan

Silverlens, Manila

Silverlens presents 'Dwelling', a series of images by Frankie Callaghan. As in his process and concept, Callaghan captures the ambient aura and light of the city. He takes to the backstreets and saturates dwelling places, monuments of cement and metal, in washes of light and color from their immediate surroundings.

MANILA
06 May - 06 June 2009

Hanna Pettyjohn

The American Sweet

Silverlens, Manila

Hanna Pettyjohn details her experience as she attempted to discover her roots in Texas, where she worked in a Geological Engineering Laboratory. She brings these masked characters back to her home, the gritty environment of Manila, where their aseptic precautions become even more relevant.

MANILA
08 January - 14 February 2009

Library Bookworks

Silverlens, Manila

For his first gallery exhibition in the Philippines, Renato Orara renders human ears in library books and produces corresponding photographic prints with the books' call number labels affixed to them.

MANILA
04 December 2008 - 03 January 2009

Gary-Ross Pastrana

Silverlens, Manila

Gary-Ross Pastrana has been making collages alternately with his sculptural installations since 1999. Pastrana's latest set of collages relies heavily on the exploration of the range of possibilities offered by found printed material, paper texture, shape and color which calls for a more mature and developed sense of composition.

MANILA
02 December 2008 - 09 January 2009

Gary-Ross Pastrana

Silverlens, Manila

Drawn to breaking things down, cutting things in half and splitting things in two, Gary-Ross Pastrana’s work extends itself beyond a mere division of objects to its material origins and its source. 'Indivisibilis' is more a reflection on a material’s transformative phases and an investigation into what is borne out of a sudden space that was once whole.

MANILA
16 October - 22 November 2008

Patricia Perez Eustaquio

Death to the Major, Viva Minor

Silverlens, Manila

Death to the Major, Viva Minor is Patricia Eustaquio’s first solo show in four years. In that time, she made headway as a sought- after designer making sculptural art worn as clothing. She continued to paint and sculpt for various group shows in that time, and her pieces were consistently sold out whether here in Manila or in Kuala Lumpur, but is only now making a firm return to her primary medium at SLab.

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