Artery Art Space features the new works of Clarence Chun, Patrick Cruz, Jon Cuyson, John Yoyogi Fortes, Pow Martinez, Marcus Noceda, Carlo Ricafort and Cos Zicarelli in Aliens vs. Robots, an exhibit that explores the diversity of expression bordering on orientations of technique and perception that bring about emblematic images of place and terrain, ambiance and mental mapping, body representation, psyche and gesture.
The exhibit counters the simulated lines of preset design encompassing notions of abstraction and media, opposite an intuitive account of primitivism and exotica, in forming a contemporary view of mediated subjectivity in the manufacture of culture. Placing an eye on mechanical reproduction within a contemporary aesthetic vis-à-vis the raw reification of imagined space and figuration, Aliens vs. Robots serves as a distinct marker of today’s evolving practice and pervasive notion on cultural displacement—its assimilation and alienation, establishing the fact that identity is always in flux and a process of discovery.
Clarence Chun received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts New York, BFA, cum laude at the University of Houston School of Art in Texas, and a fellowship at Yale University School of Art. He currently lives and works in Manila and Honolulu, Hawaii. Clarence is a Honolulu Museum of Art Artists of Hawaii 2013 and John Young Foundation awardee.
Patrick Cruz received his MFA at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, and his undergraduate studies at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada, and the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts in Manila. Cruz is currently represented by Wil Aballe Art Projects in Vancouver, Canada.
Jon Cuyson received his MFA from Columbia University New York, as well as a Skowhegan Artist Residency in Maine. He currently lives and works in Manila. He has shown at Guang Dong Times Museum in China, Osage Gallery in Hong Kong, Silverlens at Gilman Barracks in Singapore, and in Manila at the UP Vargas Museum, Artery Art Space, 1335Mabini, DAGC, Galleria Duemila and West Gallery.
John Yoyogi Fortes’s paintings have been exhibited in California, Nevada, Chicago, New York, Hawaii, Venezuela, Japan and Norway, and are held in numerous private collections, as well as the Asian American Art Center in New York, the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno and the Triton Museum of Art and Crocker Art Museum in California. Fortes has received grants from the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission and a Visual Artist Fellowship from the California Arts Council. In 2004 Fortes was awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.
Pow Martinez studied Visual Communication at the University of the Philippines and Painting at Kalayaan College. He is a recipient of the Ateneo Art Award in 2010. He has been featured in selected exhibits at Silverlens Galleries, West Gallery, Finale Art File, Pablo Fort and Mo_Space in Manila, Taksu Gallery in Singapore, Megumi Ogita Gallery in Tokyo, Osage Gallery in Hong Kong, Random Parts in Oakland, California, and the International Museum of Modest Arts in Sete, France.
Marcius Noceda lives and works in the Bay Area in California. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and has shown at the Paolo Mejia Art Gallery & Design Studio, Kearny Street Workshop, Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Blackball Universe Gallery and Manilatown Center Gallery in San Francisco.
Carlo Ricafort received his BFA in Pictorial Arts at San Jose University in California. He has exhibited in Manila at Artery Art Space, Vinyl on Vinyl, West Gallery, Finale Art File, Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manila and the Cultural Center of the Philippines; and abroad at 8.Salon in Germany, Krowswork in Oakland, Kearny Street Workshop in San Francisco, Blackball Universe Gallery, Topaz Arts in New York and International Museum of Modest Arts in Sete, France.
Cos Zicarelli earned his BFA from the University of Santo Tomas and is a Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists awardee in 2012. He has shown at Silverlens Gallery, Art Informal and West Gallery in Manila, and Small Projects and Kino Kino Art Space in Norway.
Artery Art Space is at 102 P. Tuazon Boulevard in Cubao, Quezon City. Gallery hours are from 11 am to 7 pm, from Tuesday to Saturday. For inquiries, call 725-2837 or e-mail arteryartspace@gmail.com.