RISA RECIO
Remembering to Forget Remembering is Risa Recio’s fourth solo exhibition. The title of the show refers to the artist’s painting process. In her work, notably the “Rogers Park” series, Recio deals with the idea and the process of memory. She is interested in what happens visually in our minds when we try to recollect an event or experience. It is difficult to remember something exactly as it happened, and it is the distortion or “fuzziness” that Recio attempts to capture in her work. One can remember the colours of the walls or the shape of a lamp but some of the details are lost over time. Although the work is abstract, she sees her work as subjective, and encourages her audience to interpret the forms and brushstrokes for themselves. She has her own answers to her work, but they are not necessarily the right answers.
At the same time, the formal aspects of painting are important to Recio. She does not entirely rely on the idea of memory to build her paintings. She carefully considers composition, colour, texture and line in work. The history of the painting is important to Recio, she builds layers upon layers of paint, some areas impasto, while others glow with underpainting. She regards herself as an intuitive painter, allowing her instincts to take over in the midst of painting and then she takes a step back to reassess the direction of her work. Sometimes the original idea of the painting is lost or forgotten in the process, and the painting becomes about the paint itself.
Risa Recio studied at Skidmore College, in upstate New York where majored in Studio Art with a concentration in Painting. She currently lives and works in Manila.
ERIKA SABEL
Erika Sabel is a U.S. artist born September 23, 1984 in Rhode Island. She began her art career as a finger painter at the ripe age of three, a technique still employed today. Before coming to the Philippines Sabel was residing in New York City juggling a full time administrative job and pursuing her artwork on the side. Leaving her NYC 9-5 job behind in pursuit of a full time creative venture, a miraculous invitation that could not be ignored beckoned from the Recio residence. The opportunity to experience Southeast Asia, focus on artwork and growth in the studio – with her friend and collaborator Risa Recio, whom she met while attending Skidmore College in NY- was too tempting to pass up.
Sabel intends to combine Southeast Asian pop culture, globalization, local folklore, indigenous flora, and current events with underlying narratives focused on environmental inevitabilities, theories, and realities. Sabel attempts to interpret her transforming global world with imaginative structures or impossible machines juxtaposing the natural with the artificial. Integrating drawing techniques with oil painting, Sabel creates works stacked with organic forms, glazed layers, overlapping washes, and static line work. Layers upon layers expose a direct sense of history – time/experience/process – yet obscure and enrich the journey, inviting an open-ended interpretation…futuristic? apocalyptic? otherworldly?
Risa & Sabel exhibits at Ricco Renzo Galleries & Caffe on 23 April, 2009, Thursday, 6:00 in the evening. Exhibit runs till May 15. Ricco Renzo Galleries & Caffe is at GF LRI Design Plaza, 210 Nicanor Garcia Street, Formerly Reposo, Bel Air II, Makati City. Log on to www.riccorenzo.com or call Kaye Nuguid at 898-2545 or 0927-386-1460.
Remembering to Forget Remembering is Risa Recio’s fourth solo exhibition. The title of the show refers to the artist’s painting process. In her work, notably the “Rogers Park” series, Recio deals with the idea and the process of memory. She is interested in what happens visually in our minds when we try to recollect an event or experience. It is difficult to remember something exactly as it happened, and it is the distortion or “fuzziness” that Recio attempts to capture in her work. One can remember the colours of the walls or the shape of a lamp but some of the details are lost over time. Although the work is abstract, she sees her work as subjective, and encourages her audience to interpret the forms and brushstrokes for themselves. She has her own answers to her work, but they are not necessarily the right answers.
At the same time, the formal aspects of painting are important to Recio. She does not entirely rely on the idea of memory to build her paintings. She carefully considers composition, colour, texture and line in work. The history of the painting is important to Recio, she builds layers upon layers of paint, some areas impasto, while others glow with underpainting. She regards herself as an intuitive painter, allowing her instincts to take over in the midst of painting and then she takes a step back to reassess the direction of her work. Sometimes the original idea of the painting is lost or forgotten in the process, and the painting becomes about the paint itself.
Risa Recio studied at Skidmore College, in upstate New York where majored in Studio Art with a concentration in Painting. She currently lives and works in Manila.
ERIKA SABEL
Erika Sabel is a U.S. artist born September 23, 1984 in Rhode Island. She began her art career as a finger painter at the ripe age of three, a technique still employed today. Before coming to the Philippines Sabel was residing in New York City juggling a full time administrative job and pursuing her artwork on the side. Leaving her NYC 9-5 job behind in pursuit of a full time creative venture, a miraculous invitation that could not be ignored beckoned from the Recio residence. The opportunity to experience Southeast Asia, focus on artwork and growth in the studio – with her friend and collaborator Risa Recio, whom she met while attending Skidmore College in NY- was too tempting to pass up.
Sabel intends to combine Southeast Asian pop culture, globalization, local folklore, indigenous flora, and current events with underlying narratives focused on environmental inevitabilities, theories, and realities. Sabel attempts to interpret her transforming global world with imaginative structures or impossible machines juxtaposing the natural with the artificial. Integrating drawing techniques with oil painting, Sabel creates works stacked with organic forms, glazed layers, overlapping washes, and static line work. Layers upon layers expose a direct sense of history – time/experience/process – yet obscure and enrich the journey, inviting an open-ended interpretation…futuristic? apocalyptic? otherworldly?
Risa & Sabel exhibits at Ricco Renzo Galleries & Caffe on 23 April, 2009, Thursday, 6:00 in the evening. Exhibit runs till May 15. Ricco Renzo Galleries & Caffe is at GF LRI Design Plaza, 210 Nicanor Garcia Street, Formerly Reposo, Bel Air II, Makati City. Log on to www.riccorenzo.com or call Kaye Nuguid at 898-2545 or 0927-386-1460.
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