Republic of the Philippines

Camarines Sur Polytechnic Colleges

Nabua, Camarines Sur
College of Health Science
S/Y 2021-2022

Art Appreciation
Ernest Concepcion
Concepcion is a studio artist whose work experiments with intense
emotion, deconstructing images in his paintings, sculptures, and
installations. He creates art like recording a music album, where each
painting is from a series of nine. Concepcion describes it as producing an
old favorite, a classic, sleeper hit and one piece he doesn’t really like but
keeps coming back to. He is a graduate of the University of the Philippines,
with a Bachelor in Fine Arts while under the mentorship of pioneer
conceptual artist Roberto Chabet. After graduation, he moved to New York
in 2002 and spent a significant amount of time in Brooklyn, where he
participated in art residences for the Bronx Museum of Art Artists-in-the-
Marketplace (AIM) Program, the Artists
Alliance Inc. Rotating Studio Program,
and the Lower Manhattan Cultural
Council (LMCC) Workspace Program. Concepcion returned to Manila in 2013 with a triumphant
solo show at the U.P. Vargas Museum, after participating in the El Museo del Barrio La Bienal in
New York. He remains active on the Asian art scene and is a recent recipient of the 13th Artists
Award by the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

Benedicto “BenCab”
Cabrera
A muse, one that has held
Benedicto Cabrera’s imagination captive
for years: this is Sabel. Undoubtedly a
trademark of BenCab’s work is the
scavenger woman he peeped through his
Bambang apartment to find. She was said
to have been looking for scraps of plastic
when Cabrera started drawing abstract
sketches of her from his window. Since
then, he has drawn and painted Sabel in
various forms and through various
lenses. What mystified Cabrera the most
wasn’t who she was exactly, rather it was
the fluidity of her identity. “Looking at the way she moved, how her ‘clothes’
swayed, she could be an OFW, a vendor, a dreamer,” he said. The BenCab Museum
states that Sabel has served to be a “vehicle for the transmission of intensely
emotional moods”. One can interpret Sabel to be a different person each time and it’s
through this unconfirmed identity that she becomes a fertile ground for the artist’s
exploration into shape, structure, theme, and mood.

Dex Fernandez (1984-present)

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Another Caloocan native, Dexter practices a variety of mediums ranging from painting to
street art and animation. He most recently participated in art residency programs in Lir Art
Space, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2013), Asian Cultural Council in New York, Fine Arts
Work Center, Massachusetts (2015), and Ongoing Art Center, Tokyo (2016). His work is
influenced by pop culture, graffiti, children’s drawings, and tattoos – creating pieces that
challenge people’s views on fine art. He is known locally for his on-going series of
Garapata street art (the Tagalog word for ‘tick’), filling public spaces with the notion of
‘infecting’ the city with his art. Fernandez has exhibited extensively in top galleries in the
Philippines and abroad, including in Paris, New York, and the Singapore Biennale. He
recently participated in the Melbourne Art Fair 2018 with fellow Filipino, Melbourne-
based artist Diokno Pasilan.

Neil Pasilan
Brother to artist Diokno Pasilan, Neil is a Bacolod-born artist
from a family of craftsmen and boat builders. He is a self-taught
visual artist who displayed creativity as a child. Pasilan has
moulded clay figures for most of his life and continues to use this
in his work. Currently based in
Manila, he has become known
for his paintings that hold
multiple layers, using different
mediums to expose new
forms. Pasilan’s work has
been represented by the
Drawing Room of Manila,
Artinformal Gallery, and West
Gallery. A notable collaboration with Raffy Napay was featured in Art Fair
Philippines in 2017.

Patricia Perez Eustaquio

Eustaquio is an artist who works in various mediums,
experimenting with different materials through installation,
drawing, and painting. The frames from her painting are cut,
resulting in canvases
that evoke images of
wilted flowers and
carcasses. Her sculptures
are fashioned from
fabric, covering objects
with resin-treated silk or
crochet. The object is
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College of Health Science
S/Y 2021-2022

then removed, to allow the fabric to retain its position, folds and drapes. Her work examines the ideas of perception and
memory. Eustaquio’s solo exhibitions have been held in Manila, New York, Taiwan, and Singapore. In 2016, her site-
specific installation was featured in the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

A.
1. Social description
2. Social description and Influence, Social Behavior (in some culture)
3, Display and Celebration
4. Social description
5. Social description, Display and Celebration

B.
1. Physical
2. Social
3. Personal