18 x 24 @ Metro Gallery

By the exhibit's title alone, one need not wonder about the sizes of the works, but what to see on those canvases made the pulse run quicker, especially with this viewer having just come from another great exhibit opening (Jarque's & Valdezco's).

Metro Gallery mounts “18x24,” opened on May 16 (and on view until May 26), at Metro Gallery, 455 P. Gueverra St., San Juan (right beside Cafe Ysabel).




The show featured the works by Jason Montinola, Tyago Almario, Vincent De Pio, Aileen Lanuza, Wesley Valenzuela, CJ Tanedo, Randalf Dilla, Alrashdi Mohammad, Kris Jan Gavino, Clint Catalan, Marlon See, Parker Encisa, Jigger Cruz, Keka (Becca Rodriguez), Carlo Ongchangco, Gino Tioseco, Joselito Jandayan, Kadin Tiu, Raffy Napay, Rovi Salegumba, Averil Paras, Marcial Pontillas, Heraldo Corpuz, Epil Franklyn, Mike Velasco, Ronald Caringal, Cesar Delgado, Egg Fiasco, JJ Zamoranos, Scott Garceau, Benjie Bermudez, Robert Shook, Julmard Vicente, Rianne Salvarita, Bjorn Calleja, Lawrence Borsoto, John Suter Pongongan, Demosthenes Campos, Henry Royales, Bernardo Del Mundo, Mitch Valera, Nemo Aguila, Ferdinand Cacnio, Delf Campos, Rizaldy Garra, Jojo Lofranco, Adonai Artificio, and Mark Salvatus.

Cesar Delgado's work (uppermost right) highlighting the face of a baby, and below it the work of Corpuz and Mohammad.

Artist Marlon Magbanua admires a work.

Campos' signature abstraction work in the middle.

It is a great feeling to have bumped into Dumaguete-based artist and once co-officemate Rian Salvarita, who eagerly told me that his work had been sold. I checked out all the works and signature pieces of Cacnio, Dilla, Campos, Mohammad, Corpuz, Jandayan, and Delgado, among others. Delgado has returned to painting after a brief absence, having found work abroad, but tells us that he has gone back into his first love, this time on a full time basis.

Artist Salvarita and his Dali-inspired work above us.

For information on the exhibit, call or SMS Chitty Cometa at 0917-8115399.

"Evince" by Demosthenes Campos

"Evince" Exhibit- May 1-16, 2009, @ Whitebox Studio, Cubao, Quezon City

Demosthenes Campos' 4th solo exhibition features thirty-three (33) 3.5 sq. ft. works using acrylic with elastomeric paint on paper. Looking at the first 12 abstract works hanging on one side of the wall could easily give the audience an impression that he is looking through the window of a building that had a view of all the roofs of the shanties within its horizons, or that each square foot of work has become like suspended creatures just morphing into yet other forms right before one's eyes. The dominant yellow paint in all works even hints at Klimt's golds, all magnetically drawing in its audience further to closely investigate each stroke and line.



Demosthenes Campos, a 36 years old graduate Fine Arts graduate (major in advertising) of Technological University of the Philippines, is open about his admiration of the works of Rothko and Rauschenberg, and even of fellow TUP artist Eugene Jarque. Growing up as the eldest of four boys in Paco, Manila, Campos remembers being drawn to the art of painting by a cousin whose penmanship and drawing he admired as a child.

Demosthenes Campos relates that his very first serious foray into art was when he joined the PYLOX Spray Art contest in 2000 where he won first prize for a sculpture titled "Aligasin", a piece which he fashioned out of an old toilet bowl. He won his first big money in the said contest worth P50 thousand along with a PC computer. Most notably, Demosthenes Campos won 3rd prize during the 59th AAP Annual Art Competition under the mixed-media category.

Demosthenes Campos' very first solo exhibit was in 2007 with "Influence" at the Big & Small Art Co. (SM Megamall), followed in 2008 by "Unfinished" at The Crucible Gallery (SM Megamall), and "Decoloration" at Galeria Astra in Makati City.

For more of his works, visit http://pototoylaki.multiply.com/photos