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Under a Woven Sky

Start:	Apr 11, '08
End:	May 4, '08
Location:	Pasilyo Vicente Manansala, Cultural Center of the Philippines

UNDER A WOVEN CANOPY
Archt. Jomike Tejido's 3rd solo exhibit of acrylic on banig paintings

April 11 - May 4, 2008
Opening cocktails on April 11, at 7pm

Jomike Tejido's 3rd solo exhibit, UNDER A WOVEN CANOPY, is a window to dreamy forests and abstract Philippine animals painted on pandanus mats or banig. Tejido has pioneered his signature acrylic on banig to offer a refreshing, yet distinctly modern Filipino painting style. Traditionally used for sleeping mats or bags, the banig is reborn with vivid, multihued strokes that entwine issues of the environment and culture. The organic material is treated, layered and protected to harness its great potential as an art canvas. Tejido's promotion of agricultural crafts and innovative fine art is a woven statement in each masterpiece, and aims to bring Filipino art to the world.

Under A Woven Canopy is a joint project with Haribon Foundation. In line with issues of rainforestation and threatened species, this exhibition aims to increase viewers' environmental consciousness. Trees with swirl branches act as dainty finger-like projections carrying precious starry fruits, the priceless gifts that trees nurture with their lives. Vibrant renditions of fauna hidden amongst layers of geometric human settlements bring a strong impact through abstract interpretations of their natural colors. Vivid panoramas of animal abstracts remind us that life on earth is not about a single species' dominance, but about dependence on its inhabitants' interconnections, such as that of a woven mat. Through this collection, viewers are reminded that all depend on life brought to us by nature, and that we all share this world under a woven canopy.

Tejido is a practicing architect based in Manila . His background in architecture, children's book illustration, and love for the environment all entwine in his work. His mat paintings were part of group exhibits in Paris, Japan and Manila . His 2nd solo show, Matscapes, was recently held in Singapore in March 2008. Under A Woven Canopy was brought about by Tejido's childhood memories of walking under a canopy of intertwined branches and leaves that has always given him a sense of serenity.

Proceeds of this exhibit will benefit Haribon's Rainforestation and Threatened Species Programs and CCP's Liwasang Kalikasan.

URL: jmtejido.multiply.com
E-mail: jmtejido @ yahoo.com



UNDER A WOVEN CANOPY

Pasilyo Vicente Manansala
2nd Floor hallway
Cultural Center of the Philippines
CCP Complex, Roxas Boulevard , Pasay City

April 11 - May 4, 2008
Opening cocktails on April 11, at 7pm
Gallery hours: 10am -6pm daily except Mondays & holidays.

Admission is free. For particulars, call 832-3702

Jun Murakoshi Design

http://www.junmurakoshi.com/
The creator of the Shelving Chair and the Stacking Stool, among other curious stuff.

ANINO Shadowplay Collective

http://anino.sining.net/

ARTKAMP

http://www.artkamp.org/
ARTKAMP is blog that its contributed to by us artists for artists. Featuring our art, our events, our causes, our interests. It is not an extension of the Auburn Art department, and we intend to keep it that way. However, we are more than willing to cooperate with the university when appropriate. We are working hard to get a virtual gallery in place, so that anyone who is interested in showing their work can submit it to be displayed on the site. So if you are interested in that, stay tuned and we will keep you posted. Hopefully with enough support this will become a destination for artist beyond our community. - ARTKAMP.ORG

SketchCrawl! drawing marathons from around the world

http://www.sketchcrawl.com/blog/
SketchaWhat?
"Three or four years ago a good friend of mine had a fun bachelor party consisting of visiting ten bars and pubs along the N-Juda Muni tram line: a “PubCrawl”. And crawling we did, in fact we didn’t make it past the seventh pub. Quite the night, but that is where I got the idea for the name SketchCrawl when a few months later I decided to do a whole day of intense drawing around the city.

"The basic idea: to record nonstop everything I could around me with my pencil and watercolors. A drawn journal filled with details ranging from the all the coffee I drank to the different buses I took. After a whole day of drawing and walking around the city the name seemed quite fitting: “SketchCrawl” - a drawing marathon. The crawl was more tiring than I imagined but also more fun and exciting than I had thought. Giving yourself this kind of mandate for a full day changes the way you look around you. It makes you stop and see things just a tad longer, just a bit deeper … needless to say I loved it.

"I soon figured out it was much more interesting to do the marathon with a group of artists instead of all by myself! And so SketchCrawl turned communal. After a whole day of drawing it proved to be amazingly interesting and inspiring to share and compare other people’s drawings and thoughts. Different takes on our surroundings, different details, different sensibilities.

"The next step was making the SketchCrawl a World Wide event: having people from different corners of the world join in a day of sketching and journaling and then, thanks to the Internet, having everyone share the results on an online forum.

"So here it is, we have a website now, a few Crawls behind me, some by myself some with friends and artists from around the world … and hopefully plenty SketchCrawls ahead of us." -sketchcrawl.com

MyProject365.com

http://project365.multiply.com/
One drawing per day.

Black and white street photography by Markus Hartel

http://www.markushartel.com/

Douglas Simonson Gallery

http://www.douglassimonson.com/
*may contain male frontal nudity

Life size robot sculptures made by Clayton Bailey (1997)

http://www.claytonbailey.com/robogroup.htm

Index of ceramic sculpture made by Clayton Bailey from 1960 to 1998

http://www.claytonbailey.com/ceramisculpt.htm

Sensitive Light: Photography by Graham Jeffery

http://www.sensitivelight.com/
Graham Jeffery is well known for his abstract photos of colored smoke.

Art Exhibit: REIFIED DELUSIONS

Start:	Aug 11, '07
End:	Sep 9, '07
Location:	Cubicle Art Gallery

REIFIED DELUSIONS

Cubicle Art Gallery
40a C. Raymundo Ave cor Stella Maris Ave.
Pasig City

August 11-Sept 9, 2007

a softer world

http://www.asofterworld.com/
This webcomic makes me cry in envy. Eeessssooopritty! Eeessssooossaadd.

The Webcomics Examiner

http://www.webcomicsreview.com/
From the Webcomics Examiner Mission Statement: "The Webcomics Examiner is a forum of frank, sophisticated discussions of webcomics as a fine art. We strive to identify the boldest, most important new works, and to advance the dialog of what these works mean and why they matter."

One Frame at a Time

http://photos.viczhang.com/
A photoblog by Victor Zhang

Florencia Banfi Illustrations

http://www.florenciabanfi.com/
"Freelance Illustrator with experience in children's products, greeting cards and design. Works in a variety of media, including both traditional and digital."

Victoria Jamieson Illustrations

http://www.victoriajamieson.com/

We Make Money Not Art

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/