Foundation News

Christina Dy will be showing Roots, new commissioned portraits of her signature charcoal hair series, at SLab’s 20Square Gallery from Wednesday, 23 September to Saturday, 17 October, 2009 from 6-9pm.

CD started hair drawings four years ago as abstracted portraits. Drawn in a subtractive process, CD shades the entire field in charcoal black and simultaneously draws with an eraser and fills in details with graphite. The tangible and tactile becoming more so evident as the highlights are erased in. She starts with photographing her sitter’s hair, then scaling up the images and abstracting them completely. They are anonymous, but present very intimate clues as to the identity of the subjects. How the curls fall or the waves turn, the angles of a widow’s peak, or the twists of a crown puyo—these are individual and unique landscape markers of our crowns. Hair is our expression of identity, a carrier of our DNA, an organic marker of every person’s individuality. One of the commissioned pieces is her self-portrait. The artist offers new possibilities of portraiture.

This 2009, Christina Dy received the CCP 13 Artist Award and shortlisted for the second time as a finalist for the Ateneo Art Awards.

Image: Jonathan 1, 2009

SLab proudly presents Satellite: Eye In The Sky by Gus Albor. The show is inspired by the omniscience of the satellite, its relentless scrutinizing and participation in our lives. “Are things of magnitude really being monitored by certain individuals through this devise round-the-clock?” Asks Albor. He introduces geometric forms, metal, computers and laser lights, conveying the austere technological aspect of the satellite, against intimate earth tones that link it back to the human.

Albor, a seasoned abstract expressionist, first emerged from the 70’s art scene with his now signature abstract and minimalist approach. He sustains this contemplative nature in his show, signifying our collective and constant meditation on the simplicity and complexity of life, in comparison to the ceaseless watchfulness of the satellite. This visual dialogue is resounded in the make and imagery of the paintings and sculptures and even more in the restless laser light installation.

Satellite: Eye In The Sky by Gus Albor opens at 6 pm in SLab, Silverlens Gallery on August 12 and runs until the September 12, 2009. It opens simultaneously with Some Of The Things You Don’t Already Have by Julius Clar at 20Square Gallery.

Satellite: Eye In The Sky will be shown alongside Kaleidoscope by Ina Ayala, Mintio and MM Yu at Silverlens Gallery and Some Of The Things You Don’t Already Have by Julius Clar at 20Square Gallery.

For inquiries, contact Silverlens Gallery at 2/F YMC Bldg. II, 2320 Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati, 816-0044, 0905-2650873, or manage@silverlensphoto.com. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 10am–7pm and Saturdays 1–6pm. www.silverlensphoto.com.

Opening: Sundance by Kawayan de Guia, Neal Oshima, Julius Clar and Allan Razo, Silverlens Gallery, June 24, 2009, Wednesday, 6-9pm

Silverlens Gallery proudly presents Sundance, a collection of photograms by Kawayan de Guia, Neal Oshima, Allan Razo and Julius Clar. The artists take a back-to-basics approach and utilize alternative photographic processes—Platinum Prints, Cyanotypes, Kallitypes (Vandyke Prints) and Gum Bichromate Prints—that antedate the first silver gelatin photographs by more than a century.

Amid the digital age, of hyper-progression and technological advancement, de Guia, Oshima, Razo and Clar take a retro step to the most basic and organic of photographic processes using the sun as their ‘darkroom’. Each process is an arduous one, subject to uncontrollable variables that demand fastidious experimentation. Each uniquely imperfect print is a suggestive abstraction of its original subject, this artisanal nature contributes to its longevity.

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For inquiries, contact Silverlens Gallery at 2/F YMC Bldg. II, 2320 Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati, 816-0044, 0905-2650873, or manage@silverlensphoto.com. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 10am–7pm and Saturdays 1–6pm. www.silverlensphoto.com.

Image: Detail, Allan Razo, Shell 3, 2005 and Cactus, 2004

The Golden Age of Philippine Magazine Journalism
a panel discussion with Romy Vitug, Ed Santiago and Eugenia Apostol

silverlens foundation inc., (SLF) in association with the silverlens gallery invites everyone to attend a panel discussion about the Golden Age of Philippine Magazine Journalism with photographers Romy Vitug, Ed Santiago, and writer Eugenia D. Apostol on December 1, from 3-5PM. This panel discussion will be the first Saturday activity for the exhibit 5 PHOTOGRAPHERS: A Tribute to 5 Pioneering Masters of Philippine Photojournalism. The exhibit opened on November 22 and consists of photographs from five of the country’s foremost photojournalists: Mario Co, Silverio Enriquez, Joe Gabor, Ed Santiago and Romy Vitug.

The chosen works in this exhibit are the best of the best the 5 photographers produced during that Golden Age of Filipino Photojournalism. They are works that reflect the changing political, economic, social, and cultural scene of those times. Eugenia D. Apostol was a writer during this era and worked with the 5 Photographers.

Curated by photojournalist Jose Enrique Soriano, 5 Photographers was awarded the silverlens foundation Curatorial Grant for 2007. This exhibit will run until December 20.

silverlens gallery is located at 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Yupangco Building 2, Makati City. Gallery hours are 10 to 7pm Mondays to Fridays and 1 to 6pm on Saturdays. For more information, call 8160044, 09052650873, email manage@silverlensphoto.com or visit www.silverlensphoto.com.

The Charles Harbutt Workshop has been evolving for over thirty years. It was first given in France at the Arles Festival in 1974 and has had been given in England, Italy, Mexico, and all over the United States. For twenty years, it was a twice-yearly feature at the International Center of Photography in New York. It had been taught in a semester long version at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pratt Institute and for the past ten years it has been a required course at Parsons School of Design.

This workshop will use the examples by masters of Twentieth century photography to learn what they discovered about how cameras see, and about how to make that vision express something of themselves. Each day there will be a slide lecture which will show a different component of photographic vision – lens, shutter, film/paper, and discuss their impact on how photographs “look”. Field assignments will be given daily and will be reviewed in the next class.

Having taken photography apart, students will try to discover how they can put it back together in their own unique way, to be able to find their own “look” as photographers.

Prerequisites: Portfolio review. Portfolios will be accepted at silverlens gallery until 6pm on Dec. 12, Wed.
Registration Fee: P10,000 (exclusive of materials)
Required Materials: At least 10 rolls of film or a digital camera

15 Slots Available

Sessions:
Jan. 11, Fri. 5-9pm
Jan. 12, Sat. 9am-5pm
Jan. 18, Fri. 5-9pm
Jan. 19, Sat. 9am-5pm

About the Instructor
For the first twenty years of his photographic life, Charles Harbutt was a photojournalist, working mostly through MAGNUM PHOTOS (of which he was twice president) for magazines in Europe, Japan and the United States. Since 1980, Harbutt has increasingly pursued more personal interests in photography, especially the extension of documentary into the everyday. He is a full time faculty member of the PARSONS School of Design Photography Program and a teacher at the INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY in New York City, where he lives. Mr. Harbutt is also opening his first show in the Philippines at the silverlens gallery on Jan. 10, 2008 with a mini-retrospective “Charles Harbutt”.

To Register:
816-0044 (Look for Leonore or Rica)
manage@silverlensphoto.com

50% Reservation Fee required
Balance due on first day of classes

All classes are at silverlens gallery,
2320 Pasong Tamo Ext. Makati City

www.silverlensphoto.com