Exhibitions • Galerie Stephanie

To Catch A Cloud
- March 1-15, 2023 •
- This month’s group exhibition at Galerie Stephanie is a recollection into the past while simultaneously looking into an imagined future. Four artists seek to (re)negotiate the stifling paradigm of adulthood through harnessing the freedom and purity of childhood imagination. To Catch a Cloud features the works of Kim Borja, Addy Debil, Farley del Rosario and Keiko Yokoyama. Pinning elusive phantoms or the friendly mascot of our dreams (and nightmares), To Catch a Cloud is a celebration of play and imagination and a quiet rebellion thru childlike wonder.
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Ballad of the Streets
- - Jobert Cruz
- March 1 - 15, 2023 •
- Born and raised in Tondo, Manila, Cruz draws on pride of place and his community in his new series of works. In neon pinks and acid oranges, vibrant teals, and touches of purple, Cruz evokes the feeling of the 1980s, replete with padded blazers and pastel topsiders, but overlays these bright, process colors to an assortment of structures he became aware of at a young age.
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Art Fair Philippines 2023
- February 16-19, 2023 •
- Galerie Stephanie is delighted to announce its participation in Art Fair Philippines 2023! Returning to its original venue for its 10th anniversary, this year’s edition will be held at The Link Carpark in Makati, from 16 to 19 February 2023.
  
  We have three presentations in our booth, curated by Liv Vinluan: “In This Ground” by Mr. S, “Absence of Abundance, Excess of Existence” by Aileen Lanuza and Hideo Tanaka, and “Surface To Air”; featuring glass and acrylic artworks from sculptor Anna Orlina, multi-awarded Spanish artist Cristina Gamón, and local artists Gabby Prado, Jomike Tejido and Lyndon Maglalang. A Special Exhibition by Jomike Tejido will also be presented at The Link Roof Deck.
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Layers
- - Eugenia Alcaide
- February 9 - 23, 2023 •
- Known for her pioneering techniques in layered thread work using stretched silk canvas & thread, Eugenia Alcaide traces the contours of one’s interior landscape and untangles the complexities of identity. Presenting multiple surfaces and mediums within lightboxes, Alcaide’s precise line artwork cast intricate and ever-shifting networks of shadows.
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The Wiggle Room
- - Ev Yu
- February 9 - 23, 2023 •
- Ev Yu, who is recognized for her watercolor works, dives headfirst into a new medium in “The Wiggle Room”. The series of works were made in a period when the artist was introduced to painting with oils. The solo exhibition tackles the lack of space that one allows themselves to have in moments of uncertainty, presenting works with plenty of fluid gestures, looking like the visualization of the saying “getting your feet wet”.
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Olympus
- - Jomike Tejido
- January 24 - February 7, 2023 •
- Unsheathing lore and adventure, “Olympus” depicts the ancient Greek deities through contemporary abstractions and explorations. His works represent the eminence of Greek mythology and their homes, narrated through acrylic and gold leaf canvases. The signature organic shapes of structured abstraction and balanced colors sprawl throughout Tejido’s works, merging his fascination with mystical fantasy and his affinity with architecture.
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Of The Earth
- January 24 - February 7, 2023 •
- Of the earth is a collection born from the dust of the galaxy, shaped into relics of each artist’s interior landscape.
  
  Looking to the stuff of stellar remnants, artists Genavee Lazaro, JD Yu, Rosa Mirasol, Aly Kangleon, Ianna Engaño, Iori Espiritu, Jezzel Wee, Jose Solon Perfecto, and Marco Rosario find grounding in the practice of pottery, turning to the craft as a means of rediscovering one’s connection with the earth and its histories.
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“S̶o̶r̶r̶y̶ Not Sorry”
- - Summer De Guia
  - Ron Mariñas
- January 7 - 22, 2023 •
- In the opulent tableaux of visual artists Summer de Guia and Ron Mariñas, figures test the definitions, standards, and limits of beauty. The unapologetically forward exhibition “S̶o̶r̶r̶y̶ Not Sorry” reclaims the power of the word that lost its value within social expectations.
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Here Lies A Memory
- - Niño Odosis
- January 7 - 22, 2023 •
- Lured with nostalgia, Niño Odosis’ works bridge the past and present through antiquities. “Here Lies A Memory” explores the volatility of memories and our perspectives towards nostalgia, and how much of it we want to carry into the future.
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Rock, Paper, Scissors
- December 6 - 27, 2022 •
- In “Rock, Paper, Scissors”, Galerie Stephanie’s year ender group show, twenty-seven artists present new works on three different surfaces (canvas, paper & acrylic) and a variety of subject matter. As mistakes are acknowledged and learned upon, the show hopes to be able to draw an allegorical outline and give shape and sense to the year that was and to look in the eye with grace and enthusiasm the year that will be.
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Plant What You Memorize
- - Gabby Prado
- November 19 - December 4, 2022 •
- Reflecting and navigating the chaos and madness of the world as a young adult, “Plant What You Memorize” presents works that parallel these contemplations through her approach to abstraction. From paintings to objects, Gabby Prado guides us to understand the links between our vulnerabilities and our truths.
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Quintessence of Contentment
- - Genavee Lazaro
- November 19 - December 4, 2022 •
- In her latest series of works, Genavee Lazaro’s signature “Cactus Friends” offer a glimpse of contentment in its purest form. Presenting sculptures and paintings, her characters beckon us to join them, to lounge in earned respite from the hustle and bustle and bask in the sublimity of everyday humdrum.
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Notes On Surrender
- - Regina Reyes
- November 3 - 17, 2022 •
- Right in the height of the pandemic, artist Regina Reyes relocated to the city of Gensan, on the southernmost tip of the island of Mindanao. Her solo exhibition at Galerie Stephanie, Notes on Surrender, is the first since that move and confronts the two sides of dreams and realities and the crucial balance one must arrive at between the two. Featuring a collection of paintings, drawings and mixed media collages, her works in this exhibition are visual footnotes, declarations on the power of imperfection, an addendum on traversing the unknown and a love letter to art and its creation.
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Sandali
- - Eugene Dominguez
- November 3 - 17, 2022 •
- While some rely on searching for creativity to be spurred in the far and wide, Eugene Dominguez takes his immediate surroundings as force and inspiration behind his paintings. In Sandali—one moment, a wait, a slight pause, to be still in a rush of motion—he once again explores the human figure occupying a intimate, domicile space where pause and rest is a hard-earned respite and an intermission in a life which rolls and toils unceasingly onward.
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Nachtmusik
- - Edwin Wilwayco
- October 17 - November 1, 2022 •
- One of the pillars of Philippine Abstract Expressionism, Edwin Wilwayco infuses his works with musicality, cued by the expressionist sensibilities of Kandinsky, and the compositional cadence of Mozart, after whose seminal work Eine Kleine Nachtmusik the collection is made and named.
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The Superhighway
- October 17 - November 1, 2022 •
- Defined as an extensive electronic network used for rapid transfer of information, ‘superhighway’ signals virulence and an ease in which exchanges are facilitated, the rise of which had been unprecedented in the last decade. “The Superhighway” presents a sober appraisal of elements based on the artists’ understanding of a life constantly blitzed by choice and possibility.
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I Am Here
- - Hideo Tanaka
- October 1 - 15, 2022 •
- Hideo Tanaka’s hyper-realist works in “I Am Here” bring us to scenes that seem suspended in time. The images represent poetic settings where the difference between presence and absence measures existence. His paintings in the exhibition are depictions of silent and quiet quandaries in understanding internal struggles measured through the way the objects are rendered: their brokenness and oddness somehow still evoke feelings of being whole despite these peculiarities.
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Scarlet Dreams
- - Keiko Yokoyama
- October 1 - 15, 2022 •
- Keiko Yokoyama’s Scarlet Dreams” leads us to settings where the dominance of the red color preludes the intensity of remembering the past. Her dramatic renderings of almost obsolete objects today bring us to a time when they were significant in our daily lives: a snail mail dropbox, a beetle-looking car, a manual sewing machine, and dolls that look like they have lived in another period. Using the color red alleviates the intensity of the longing for a time that is now gone but not forgotten.
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Preparatory Measures
- - Lyndon Maglalang
- September 15 - 29, 2022 •
- Traversing the terrain of a wooded interiority, an axe and a bow at the ready, Lyndon Maglalang’s latest works follow the continuation of the artist’s journey — one of weighing up past actions, charting the wild expanse of the mind, and setting the course toward a reckoning.
  
  In “Preparatory Measures”, Maglalang braves the solitary venture into the thickets of one’s existence, as he recites in earnest: “Into the dense forest of my soul, I start to walk”.
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Photo of A Photo
- - Isha Naguiat
- September 15 - 29, 2022 •
- Visual artist Isha Naguiat’s maiden solo exhibition at Galerie Stephanie entitled Photo of a Photo is a retelling of the power of nostalgia with a current sociopolitical perspective. Geared with her use of cyanotype prints and embroidery, her artworks progress from the idea of memories as idealized landscapes of the past—a growing disquisition of why these visual documentations are always more than what they initially seem. Naguiat utilizes the concept of family photos as portrayals of a much bigger story. She invites us on a pursuit of the intertextuality of histories that once shaped lives—retold, rewritten and reconsidered—to draw out the truths we choose to continue to live with.
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Invincible: KIAF Seoul 2022
- - Mr. S
- September 2 - 6, 2022 •
- Masks are shells behind which we hide our vulnerabilities, keep sheltered, shielded from the piercing, relentless gazes of those […]
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Standing Under The Golden Canopy of the Tender Sky
- - Renz Baluyot
  - Nunzio Paci
- August 25 - September 8, 2022 •
- Lifting the title from Rabindranath Tagore’s Poem No. 87, “Standing Under the Golden Canopy of the Tender Sky” features Italian […]
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I. Self Medicate: Breathe In
- - Pat Frades
- August 25 - September 8, 2022 •
- Scent has always been like breadcrumbs of memories, where a single breath paints us a scene of emotions and allows us to relive an experience. Visual artist Pat Frades incites such an exploration in the first leg of her five-part exhibition series of the senses entitled “I. Self-Medicate: Breathe In.” Frades, whose transfigured mushroom artworks come in collaboration with the candles made by Anne Cortez and with a costume of symbolic decay made by KC Contrevida, shares her love of nature through scents and elements of the earth. She allows her intimate series of stoneware artworks to stimulate ubiquity in memories: to be in a renewed present state while breathing in the sentiments of the past.
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To Raise A Soul
- - Thea Quiachon
- August 25 - September 8, 2022 •
- Across Thea Quiachon’s landscapes, the figure of a woman looms, ghostlike, nondescript. She is barely there, her presence made perceptible […]
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