Tags: Paintings, Visual arts
By KC Santos
MAKATI CITY, METRO MANILA – Printmaking, as the term implies, involves printing on a flat surface usually on paper. But visual artist Ambie Abaño breaks boundaries by producing impressions on various materials such as wood.
In “Surface”, her thirteenth solo exhibit since 1988, Ambie exhibits her art with mahogany wood as canvas.
Fashioned in the character of woodcuts, she cuts through, prints and paints onto various ground surfaces a set of portraits depicting how serenity, grief, surprise, reflection and the comic pass through a face in all possible rearrangement of these expressions.
Likewise, “Surface” examines two dichotomies: one is that of a theme that allows the detail and macro of an individual’s make-up to encounter each other, while the other reintroduces the artist’s painting sensibility with her facility of making both paint and woodcut occupy the same surface
Behind Ambie’s art is a perfect combination of technique and artistry
An Architecture graduate from the University of Santo Tomas (UST), Ambie (Maria Victoria Abaño in real life) pursued a Masters degree in Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines (UP), where she currently teaches.
In 2006, she won the grand prize in the Philip Morris Philippine Art Awards for her explorative print on textile. Her works have been exhibited abroad in New York and France.
Ambie has been the President of the Philippine Association of Printmakers since 2007, proving her dedication to this particular artform.
She was recently awarded the first residency grant of the Alliance Française de Manille-Philippine Artist Residency Program (AFM-PARP) which will enable her to experience a 2-3 months’ artist residency in France.
“Surface” will run from February 8 to 24 at the Total Gallery at Alliance Française de Manille. An artist’s reception will be held on February 8 from 6:30 to 9 PM.
(Photos courtesy of Alliance Francaise)
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