THE WORKS of College of Fine Arts and Design (CFAD) faculty members took center stage in an annual exhibition at the Beato Angelic Gallery on Nov. 12, marking the start of the CFAD’s College Week.
The “Walang Arte, Art Lang” exhibit featured works by 32 members of the CFAD faculty.
In an interview with the Varsitarian, Industrial Arts instructor Charmaine Iglesia said the exhibit should help CFAD professors develop and evolve their art outside the academic setting.
“Apart from educating our students, we also want to practice professionally and through creative works,” said Iglesia, one of the exhibit organizers.
“Yearly, professors really make an effort to create new artwork because that’s part of their own development–to hone their professional work in art and to explore many different styles because art evolves through time,” she added
Guia Sarte, a faculty member of the Department of Advertising Arts, also said that the exhibit allows the CFAD faculty to show “the other side of being a professor.”
Among the featured works in the exhibit were by Iglesia, an Industrial Design alumna. She displayed two 18×24-in. acrylic paintings, “Dayshift” and “Nightshift,” depicting work-from-home employees in a style resembling images of saints.
“They’re being saint-like: thinking of others, providing for others, despite the reality, the challenges of working from home and lockdown,” Iglesia explained.
She also featured a 15×18-in. piece titled “The Sorrowful Virgin Mary,” an interpretation of the Our Lady of Sorrows.
Assoc. Prof. Anna Marie Bautista of the Interior Design department showcased three artworks inspired by the K-pop boy group BTS. She used the pabalat technique in making the pieces, which involved cutting Japanese paper into intricate shapes and designs.
Wilfredo Tubig, an instructor from the Department of Industrial Design, featured a pair of 12×6-in. aluminum and plastic sculptures titled “Tomcats.”
CFAD Dean Mary Christie Que joined the exhibit with her “Morning Flight,” a 30×20-in. acrylic painting of a sunrise, and “Morning Clouds,” a 30×20-in. photograph accompanied by a poem by Prof. Belen Tangco of the Graduate School.
The exhibit also featured an untitled 113×82.5-in. mural painting conceptualized by CFAD Regent Fr. Edgardo Alaurin, O.P., and executed by various faculty members of the college.
It was created for the 800th Jubilee of the Dominican Order and features at the center St. Dominic de Guzman, the order’s founder.
The “Walang Arte, Art Lang” exhibit ran from Nov. 12 to 16. With reports from Sofiah Shelimae J. Aldovino
