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Augusto "Gus" Besido Albor is a painter and sculptor who attended West Surrey College of Art in England AND has made his work known both here and abroad.  As a painter, he has participated in major exhibitions and art events in the Philippines, USA, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, and China, including the First Selection of Philippine Art by the Museum of Philippine Art (MOPA), 1981; and 100 years of Philippine Painting Exhibition held at the Pacific Asia Museum, in Pasadena, California, 1984. As a sculptor, he has produced works that exude a concern for combining and contrasting human-made materials and those from nature.

Agnes Arellano is a CCP Thirteen Artists Awardee. In 1988, a Freeman Fellow at the Vermont Studio Center. In 1996, she was twice a recipient of the Patnubay ng Sining from the City of Manila. Once as a sculptor and again as founder of Pinaglabanan Galleries, which in the late 80's energized the Philippine contemporary art scene with cutting-edge exhibitions, colorful performances and openings, as well as brisk international exchanges, a source of research support for foreign curators & researchers visiting the country. She has participated in numerous international biennials and exhibitions in Berlin, Fukuoka, Havana, New York, Johannesburg, Brisbane, Singapore, and Busan.  Her works are in the collection of two major art museums in Asia, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan and the Singapore Art Museum.

Billy Bonnevie wears many hats- guerilla marketer, keeper of the flame, medium of the ecstasy and drumming dancing shaman. He has spent a decade working with the Mangyans of Mindoro

Karla Cachola was born somewhere, and then she grew up. Along the way she went to a prestigious university and learned the fundamentalsólines, color and art history.
In between and right after, she joined independent exhibitions, traveled to various cities, learned the value of work, met famous and important people, and became a witness to their passions.
Then she ended up where she is now. She has decided that Art is essential to her life, whether it is peripheral or a conscious effort.
She has come up with studies and works that would range from the crappy to the divine. When the impressive happens, it makes her believe it is all worth her while.

Olivia d’Aboville is a French Filipino artist who graduated with honors from Duperré, a prestigious Textile Design school in Paris in 2009. She was shortlisted for the 2011 Ateneo Art Awards for her solo exhibition at the Ayala Museum. In 2011, she participated in group exhibitions in Manila, Lyon, Hong Kong, Paris and New York.

From plastic spoons to pins and water bottles, d’Aboville is fascinated by ordinary mass-produced objects. These objects refer to our society and our lifestyle that are inevitably polluting our environment. She manipulates and recycles these materials to create new work. Fascinated by the underwater world, she tries to raise awareness of the importance of preserving the biodiversity of our seas.

 

Kawayan is an artist who focuses on line drawings, performance art, and installations. In 2007, De Guia's one-man exhibit “Incubator” presented portraits of acclaimed Filipino artists in nine pieces using mixed media on canvas. The exhibit won him the 2008 Ateneo Arts Awards and earned him the 1st New York Arts Project residency grant in 2009. He was among the 30 artist recipients selected from over 900 applicants from 69 countries. In 2009, De Guia held two exhibitions, “Ice Cold Happiness” in Beijing, China, and the Baguio jeepney-jukebox project “Katasng Pilipinas” for the Cultural Center of the Philippines's The Thirteen Artists Awards.

IC Jaucian graduated cum laude from UP Diliman in 2008.

His practice explores the gap between art and science, utilizing different media from paintings to kinetic installations.

He also works for the Ateneo Art Gallery as Exhibitions Coordinator.

Niccolo Palad Jose graduated from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where he found his passion for set design and eventually moved on to double major in Environmental Science and Studio Art. Niccolo returned to Manila, Philippines in 2010 to continue working on his art, studying ergonomics to create functional, sculptural, one-of-a-kind furniture. A hybrid artist consistently pushing the boundaries of his abilities, he experiments with three and two-dimensional art, also producing watercolor and Japanese ink wash paintings, and large scale abstract oil paintings. He is currently a consultant for Green Canyon Leisure Farms, an up-and-coming five-star eco-tourist art resort located in Clark, Pampanga.

Dondi Katigbak began painting in his teens but his ink sketches used to fill his notebooks in school way before that. His first solo exhibit was in 2007 and he will show some pieces this November at the Antwert Art Fair in Belgium. Dondi has five life-size horses on display at the L.A.R.K. Gallery along Broadway Avenue, corner 11th Street in New Manila that has been welded, hammered and painted into fluid lines and dynamic poses. His medium is black-iron sheets that are welded and built up and then painted black or bronze.

Grace wrote her first poem when she was 12 years old and can still repeat it from memory:  it begins...." How like the tiny blade of grass my young love for you is...."  Love has been a recurring theme in her life and in her art:  romantic love, love for dance, love for God, love for yoga.  She has been creative in other ways too.  Grace has three wonderful children:  Joanna, (a successful enterpreneur and designer in Vancouver, Canada with her own company) Ruby Evelina, (a writer and sculptor living with her husband Scott Martin in Washington) and her only son Dondi, who is also an artist, writer and is currently studying film making.  And she has been blessed with a beautiful grandchild Cassidy Alexandra Chung. So Grace is one fulfilled woman.

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