Paulo Amparo

Paulo Amparo (b. 1987) has works that combine pop art, lowbrow genres, and western, and eastern cultures. An exploration of various themes that he combines to create an inexplicable allegory that hides in plain sight. He mostly paints in drips and colorful palettes, using acrylic and oils but still learning and adapting to any medium.

Artist Statement:
Myths and folklore stories have always captivated me. This is reflected in my work, as I always try to incorporate myths from different cultures as hidden messages or themes in my artwork. In my pieces, I usually try to represent my daily feelings and emotions. Emotions evoked by certain music I heard, stories I read, or lines from a poem or an anecdote that piqued my interest have served as a source of inspiration for me.

About the Artworks:
AI is a disturbing threat to artists, and because of this artists may lose their meaning in the near future if this continues, so in my pieces, I show the passage of original art to become recycled art only through AI technology.

Kean Larrazabal

Kean Larrazabal (b. 1998, Cebu City) Drew from his formal training as graphic designer and brings these elements into canvases. KaraTula hints at a socio-realistic interpretation of the world around the artist, almost a narrative of the times and the subtle impacts of the youth living through these times. Almost genderless, the main characters of his stories’ faces are covered by cardboard birds, alluding to the universalness of these experiences. Juxtaposed with bold colors and strokes liberally applied to his canvases, KaraTula’s compositions tell the story but also allow the viewer to tell his own.

Artist Statement:
My work “KaraTula” explores the aesthetic and the political side of Art, it was inspired by protesters’ and activists’ placards which people seldom pay attention to what they are trying to bleed on.
As an Artist who believed in how important expressing oneself is, I reinvented and took the idea to my canvass and each and every piece contains a fragment of experiences ranging from context about streets and social issues to giving a voice to those who are often unheard. Continuing the idea of placards, to create and invoke emotion, change, and action in the viewer.

Jadon Kilayko

Jadon Kilayko (b. 2004) is a Visual Artist whose works focus on pop surrealism themes of the person in the context of reflection and recollection, from Bacolod City, currently based in Manila Jadon continues to work on his art and balances his studies as a first year college student, being inspired by local and international artists mixing in his love for the pop culture and everyday life. Through his works, we may ponder the question “why?”

Artist Statement:
“Human Made” is defined as (not comparable) created by people, as opposed to occurring in nature; artificial or synthetic. We create to feel and we create to make people feel, Human made art gives us that feeling of a three-way conversation between the art, the artist, and the viewer, anyone can now make art with A.I. generated art, but not everyone can make you feel like an artwork made with the hands of an artist.
Human-made tackles the idea of giving you that feeling, a feeling of conversation, furthermore allowing the viewers to connect, which you may not get with A.I. Generated art.

About The Artworks:
The works in the show present a visual diary of the artist’s experiences during the past couple of months, especially with the change in environment and the advances in technology.

Dan Ivan Sepelagio

Dan Ivan Sepelagio is a Davao-based artist who was born in Kidapawan City in 1998. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Mindanao. Ivan was exposed to the art world later in his life, specifically in his fourth year in high school, his father notices his liking for art and decided to enroll him in a Fine Arts program at the University of Mindanao, after dabbling in his new environment and exposure to different kinds of artistic activities, Ivan decided to make his love for art as a career. Now he is a full-time artist in Davao.
Ivan uses acrylic as his main medium. He expresses his creativity in painting and sculpture. He is currently indulging in exploring the pop-surrealism world as he is adopting it as his main style for his works. Presently, the theme that is mostly expressed in his works is primarily about spirituality, emotion, social realism, and philosophy.

Artist Statement:
Dan Ivan Sepelagio’s works were described as “whimsical”. His subject was usually found in the interior of a house or a room with a patterned background that offset its subjects, his works were inspired by Johannes Vermmer’s works. He loves to play with color harmony and forms. His works are intentionally a combination of different opposing elements; this is strongly influenced by the Yin Yang philosophy which is derived from the Chinese, this philosophy applies to the style of how he creates his works. Currently, he is inspired by the pop-surrealism style that he fondly attempts to apply to his works. He is also fond of the concept of “horror vacui”, hence this is obviously seen in his works. He best describes his works as vibrating images.

About The Artworks:
“The Instigator” – In this day and age, we really come so far in terms of our technological advancement, and going along with it is a disaster for the people whose practice is “traditional”, likewise their thinking. AI art can really bring about this disaster for the artist not only practicing traditional art but also in the field of digital art. I think Ai art eradicates the appreciation of people in the process of making works of art. It is really the instigator of a disaster for the artists.
“The Remover” – Art making is considered for a long time now to be part of the high culture, considering how difficult the skill is to learn and almost requires talent. Nevertheless, AI art technology somewhat removed that process and make the production of art trouble-free and easy, and as an artist, it is really infuriating. I think real art really lies in the process itself; the thinking, emotion, imagination, material thinking, frustration, etc. that comes with producing the work, is why it is considered art; the result is only the reflection.
“Embrace your Faith” – As I venture to the topic of AI art, I’ve come to the realization that in this modern world, it is really hard to be traditional, in many terms; the world is evolving in the practical pathway of thinking and sometimes it is hard to keep up, we are enclosed to a corner to change and to be in tune with these soulless technologies. Perhaps it is our faith to be embraced the disaster of our talents as human beings.

Hilario III “Doods” Campos

The bright multi-color monstrous images of Hilario III “Doods” Campos are striking illustrations of innocent perceptions. His highly skilled pen provides visual, even funny, representations of fear, absorbed in a lifetime of imaginary visions brought about by adult scolding, bedtime stories, folk beliefs, urban legends, and friends’ creepy tales. These childlike versions of fear in fantastical characters are strong comments on the ideas that we plant in children’s minds and the way these sources of fears, carelessly impressed with innocence, are shaping the psychological make-up of our successor generations.

He is a product of La Consolacion College-School of Architecture 2002. He is a licensed architect. Although the practice of his profession is his day job, he finds nourishment for the artist’s soul in his art. He had two solo exhibitions in the Negros Museum in 2010, Nobody Told Me and Invasion. He had participated in a good number of group shows with Namit-Namit, AAB, and other visual groups in Negros and Manila, among them, are Bangis at World Trade Center, Silipan Ringan, a music art festival in 2009, and as the UAP-Bacolod chapter representative in the Architect-Painters exhibition in SM-Manila in 2011-2012, Saguijo Pocket Universe, Makati, 2013 Art in the park Salcedo village, Pocket universe in Makati group show in ART CENTER megamall, group show 371 art space in collective, Makati. Doods values his roots in both Manapla and Cebu is known to dabble in cool t-shirt designing does customized painted slip-on shoes and has two of his works permanently displayed as stations of the cross at the Pope John Paul II tower, Negros Museum And Orange Gallery Bacolod.

Red Santillan

Red Santillan (b. 1989) expresses his ideas in colorful paintings with freeform characters and text, delivering with child-like abandon. If placed within an art style, one might say he is automatism. But he is however unaffected by such terms because he paints with his instincts. He left home at fourteen years old, and went to live with a friend for the next eleven years. During this time, unbeknownst to him, his ‘vandalism’ of building facades and walls became his first foray into visual arts. It was when he met a fellow artist from Talisay City- Joe Geraldo–that Red realized there is more to artistic expression than street tagging. “I wanted to do something better with my time and life, maybe make a difference.” Many of Red’s works he says, do not necessarily have meaning. Most times he works with the paint he has available, and so his narratives start taking shape. However, within his work, one will find a quick-witted, and introspective painter. His work discovers personal dialogues, as well as his keen observations of society. His body of work sharply articulates his grasp of the human psyche and experiences, as well as geo-political climates–much more than his own verbal expressions can. “That’s why my paintings have words. I’m not just using every drop of paint I have, but with text on my paintings, they help me explain what I’m trying to say. They become self-explanatory.’

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