JUNE SHOWS AT SILVERLENS│SLAB│20SQUARE

June Shows at Silverlens • SLab • 20SQUARE
Show Dates: June 01-25, 2011
Opening Reception: June 01, Wednesday, 6-9pm

Fresh from their participation at ArtHK, Silverlens Galleries opens three new shows on June 1st--Wet by Neal Oshima at Silverlens Main; Postlocal 2011 at SLab curated by Isa Lorenzo and featuring Gaston Damag, Pow Martinez and Lynyrd Paras; and in 20Square Assemblage: Project 3 by Julius Clar.

Wet is a survey of Neal Oshima’s water photographs that reveal his involvement in environmental projects, as well as his inspired meditations on the movement and textures of water. The show celebrates the waterscapes that surround our islands, and allows you to glimpse the photographer’s longstanding and many encounters with it.

Isa Lorenzo curates Postlocal 2011 at SLab, with selected works from Gaston Damag, Pow Martinez, and Lynyrd Paras. Conceptualized two years ago, Postlocal allows clashing and melding styles and influences from unexpected trios to play and answer the question, “What does Philippine contemporary art look like?”

At 20SQUARE, Julius Clar explores ideas on the vacancy and occupation of space. Presenting a series of shadow boxes, the artist compels viewers to read and re-interpret his collagic works, “to see what is not there …to look for the vacant parts, put them back into the assemblage piece and then reconsider the new whole.”

All shows will run simultaneously until June 25, 2011.

Image: Neal Oshima (detail) (left), Pow Martinez, Crusader, 2011 (detail) (center), Julius Clar, 7UP, 2011 (detail) (right); Words by Airam Ferrer