Was invited by Carlo Ricafort to participate in a group show at Taylor 15 in Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines. The show was up during Art Fair Philippines 2024. A couple pieces were included at Gerry Tan's venue in Makati.
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I spent the month of February at KALA living in the Higsby apartment and walking to and from the studio. Learned a ton about pulling intaglio, mono and silkscreen prints. I really enjoyed making mono prints. I really never had a connection to printmaking, but my time printing art KALA has given me a new appreciation for it. I'm looking forward to making more work there and also working on the pieces I plan to put in the group show in July.
This year I'll be working on projects related to my time spent kayaking and being out in nature filming birds. They're separate things that I enjoy, but recently I realized that I can relate both of them to Filipino diaspora, immigration, survival and much more. So with my time at KALA this year I hope explore and expand on that connection. Part of my obligation as a KALA Fellow is to participate in a group show mid-year so I want to include some video footage of migratory birds either projected or on a large monitor, but finding a connection to materials and imagery will dictate whether I include video or not. Since I took a class in lithography and drypoint last year I'm really interested in pursuing printmaking. I hope I can take more classes or at least get some time on a press. Would love to buy one at some point. I've also set up a silkscreen station in my studio to make prints as well. Just need to get the darkroom and exposure unit completed and tested. Just a short list for now, but lots to get done and look forward to in 2024. L to R - Naked Kayaker, migratory Snow Geese, plastic plate for drypoint and drawings.
Honored to be among this group of artists selected for the KALA Veterans Residency Program. When I was awarded the KALA Fellowship I was the one veteran they selected to be a Fellow for 2023-2024. I've been working at home getting my ideas flushed out so when I begin making work in January 2024 I can hit the ground running.
I haven't been able to get to KALA to begin working since I received the fellowship. Life took over and you know how that goes. But this past week I finally made it and began scanning images out of a souvenir book from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. Since I don't have Adobe Illustrator, I also cleaned up a vector file of my art from the Manila Men vest made at the Joan Mitchell Center in NOLA. I'll be using this art to make silkscreen patches on heavy material and sew them on more suit vests. I'd like to have a collection of older Filipino men in NOLA wear them and get their photos, but that may be a reach. Will see. Anyway, I can't wait to finish my drawings on zinc and plastic plates so I can start making drypoint prints next time I'm at KALA.
I was invited by Edmund Arevalo to show a piece in the Tambayan Collective's exhibit, You Are Welcome, featuring a number of Filipino artists work in Los Angeles.
In July KALA formally announced the nine recipients of their 2023-2024 Fellowship and I'm happy to say that I'm one of them. I'm looking forward to creating new work during my residency there in Berkeley, primarily printmaking and silkscreen.
Today is the day I'll be de-installing all my work at Martin Luther King, Jr. Tech Academy in North Sacramento. Yesterday I was interviewed by Education Reporter, Sristi Prabha with Capitol Public Radio. Sristi's working on a feature story about Twin Rivers Unified School District's Artist Residency Program and my experience with the 1,500 seventh graders that took field trip to visit the two galleries on the MLK campus.
Our last Twin Rivers School District Tour ended the middle of April. We did around 35 tours and spoke to close to 1500 seventh graders within the school district. It was a great experience and I hope to somehow stay involved in some capacity when I can. My awesome docents! Thom, Matt, myself and Juliet. Zahra was out the day of the photo.
For my birthday my wife planned a trip to drive the Mississippi Blues Trail. We started in Memphis then made our way south visiting Clarksdale, Greenville, Indianola, Avalon and back to Memphis. We visited around 40 markers, listed to music and stopped at the gravesites of some major blues musicians. It was an amazing trip. My highlife was visiting the grave of Mississippi John Hurt near Avalon in a wooded area. We also visited the grave sites of Robert Johnson, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Charley Patton, Sam Carr, Jessie Mae Hemphill and Memphis Minnie.
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