Evangeline Pascual, Beauty Queen and socialite turned actress, social worker and radio broadcaster over DWIZ 882AM. She hosts "Echoes of the Heart”, her radio show every Saturday from 2:00 to 4:00PM. Studies in CEFAM and LST, ADMU help equip VANGIES’s 16-year-old on-the-air radio counseling program. She’s also an active member of the Oasis of Love Catholic Charismatic: Praise and Worship Ministry. Her canvas themes are her extended reflections centered on deep spirituality. VANGIE, being a multimedia person, is “a set of conversation” that springs creativity and hope. In between tasks and relations, do find Vangie on dance floors, spas, designing homes, FB or tiangge. For Vangie, lines are always open.
Melanie Marquez - Movie star, supermodel, film producer , talkshow host, celebrity endorser and beauty queen- In 2006, Marquez graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration (Cum Laude) from the International Academy of Management and Economics The athletic Melanie is into swimming, volleyball, basketball, combat shooting, etc. But this multi talented, award-winning actress is also into various art forms-poetry, guitar & the visual arts The former Ms. International continues to grace our screens with her special brand of art- Candle Art, in glass frames. Her technique drips in different hues as a means of expressing herself. “I have always loved to paint in the same intensity as I love modeling-playful, never afraid to discover and experiment” For ART and BEAUTY-the audience is in for a big surprise!
Maria Isabel Lopez; The multi- awardwinning actress is a Fine Arts graduate of the University of the Philippines in Diliman QC. She was fashion designer of Rustan’s and SM Department stores, reason for her interest in the female anatomy. The figures in her nudes are elongated, a manifestation of the fashion designer in her., The canvas has rich textures, as she explores surfing art and culture on the canvas. Her Kinatay Series pays tribute to a film she did which was exhibited at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Recent works shows a desire to experiment with river rocks and stones. As founder and event organizer for The Film Artist Group, her passion is in promoting the art of her peers in showbusiness, with hopes that the group will continue to grow in their art. This time, she conceptualized Art and Beauty-to allow the beauty queens to show their beauty and talent beyond what the eyes can see.
Lani Lobangco is a Former Bb. Pilipinas Universe, and actress. (Advertising major) at the University of Santo Tomas,1987. She took up Interior Design at PSID in the year 1999-2000. Lani’s style is expressionism and she loves using oil, acrylic and pastel as medium. Favorite subject is female form. “ I follow my instincts with regards to the color I use in my works. Oftentimes, I go for the symbolic values of colors but I am not governed by the rigid, pre-existing rules. I express my emotions freely and directly as possible with the arbitrary use of colors. For me, an artwork should be creative and passionate and without rules.”
Nina Ricci Alagao- Flores was born on May 28, 1977 in Pasay City. She has always had a love for the visual arts even as a child, be it execution or appreciation, although her love for painting came much later. What was a mere hobby in her elementary years took up much more of her time when she was accepted as one of the scholars in Philippine High School for the Arts in Los Baños, Laguna, where she majored in Visual Arts. She decided to formally take the course in college and went to the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts where she majored in visual communications. In 2000 she won Binibining Pilipinas- Universe and proudly represented our country in the Miss Universe in that same year. Her winning took her off-course for a while, performing the duties that came with being a beauty queen, but she gradually got back on track and is now seriously into her art, which is her first love. Now married with two children, she is loving every moment of her life, from the simplest to the most complicated aspects, learning and enjoying along the way. She says family life plays the biggest role in molding her into an artist that she is now. Otherwise she would not have the discipline, patience and passion for arts. She hopes to make the lives of the poor better through her art, giving them a fair shot at a bright future. To her, every exhibit is an opportunity to give to the needy. Her hands, after all, are God given, and the work that they do is meant to be shared.
The beauty queens will open an exhibit at Ricco Renzo Galleries on July 13, 2011 Wednesday, 6pm. Ricco Renzo is at 2nd floor, LRI Design Plaza, 210 N. Garcia Street, formerly Reposo, Bel Air 2 Makati City. For inquiry call Kaye Nuguid at 09273244013 or 898-2545 or log on to www.riccorenzo.com
