TOPAZ ARTS presents a multi-venue exhibition curated by artist Manuel Ocampo, featuring of 20 artists from Manila.
TOPAZ ARTS celebrates its 12th Year in 2012 and we invite you to collaborate with us on the Bastards of Misrepresentation: NY Edition - an ambitious artist-initiated international project. Help us reach $12,000 by 12/12/12! Please back this project now - your participation ensures that we can cover expenses for the shipping of artworks internationally, printing & shipping of the accompanying catalogue, organizing the events and exhibitions across Queens & Manhattan, and assisting the artists from Manila who are able to travel to NYC!
TOPAZ ARTS presents
BASTARDS OF MISREPRESENTATION: NEW YORK EDITION
a multi-venue exhibition on view Oct 27 – Dec 30, 2012
Curated by artist Manuel Ocampo
Featuring 20 artists from Manila:
Poklong Anading, Yason Banal, Bea Camacho, Valeria Cavestany, Lena Cobangbang, Maria Cruz, Gaston Damag, Dex Fernandez, Arvin Flores, Dina Gadia, David Griggs, Robert Langenegger, Romeo Lee, Pow Martinez, Jayson Oliveria, Carlo Ricafort, Timo Roter,Gerry Tan, MM Yu, Maria Jeona Zoleta
TOPAZ ARTS proudly presents “Bastards of Misrepresentation: New York Edition”, curated by internationally renowned artist Manuel Ocampo, featuring 20 leading artists from Manila’s thriving arts scene, with contemporary works from painting and installation to video and performance. Bringing the scene to NYC, a series of exhibitions will take place from October 27 to December 30, 2012, presented by TOPAZ ARTS, Inc. at locations across Queens & Manhattan — Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, Crossing Art, Queens Museum of Art/Partnership Gallery, Tyler Rollins Fine Art and TOPAZ ARTS.
“Bastards of Misrepresentation” is a show about the cultural scene happening in the Philippines yet is not a definitive show about Philippine art. The 20 artists included represent the “now” of contemporary art in Manila whose works entice and challenge perceptions. Many of the artists have been recognized by the country’s most prestigious awards from the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Artist Awards and the Ateneo Art Awards, and are establishing reputations in Europe, Australia, and Asia, while locally others are highly visible as performers in the underground art, performance and music scene. TOPAZ ARTS received an Asian Cultural Council award enabling three of the artists from Manila — Yason Banal, Lena Cobangbang and Maria Jeona Zoleta — to participate as Artists-in-Residence, creating new works, site-specific installations and performances. The diverse artists are intergenerational and international including Poklong Anading, Bea Camacho, Valeria Cavestany, Maria Cruz, Gaston Damag, Dex Fernandez, Arvin Flores, Dina Gadia, David Griggs, Robert Langenegger, Romeo Lee, Pow Martinez, Jayson Oliveria, Carlo Ricafort, Timo Roter, Gerry Tan, and MM Yu.
Seen for the first time in NYC, “Bastards of Misrepresentation” was previously shown with 14 artists in 2010 in Berlin at the Freies Museum and Hamburg at 8 Salon, and at H Gallery in Bangkok in May 2012. Simulating Manila’s energetic arts scene – from alternative spaces and Chelsea-like galleries to university museums and high-end galleries in the city’s ubiquitous malls – the artist-run project is dispersed throughout NYC, headquartered at the painting-focused show at TOPAZ ARTS, to performance work and video at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, to various media in “Doing Time on Filipino Time” at Crossing Art Gallery situated in Flushing’s Queens Crossing Mall, and transforming the Queens Museum of Art/Partnership Gallery with an installation of a fictive call center office. As the Philippines is a country with a hybrid culture, the show deals with issues about aesthetic autonomy, social critique and the philosophical politics of expression. While the exhibition is focused on Manila artists, Bastards of Misrepresentation represents a complex cultural scene, addressing global issues, shared histories and the urban experience.
A full-color catalogue will accompany the exhibition, designed by re:Surgo! and printed in Germany, the catalogue features essays by Gina Fairley, Patrick D. Flores, Manuel Ocampo, and Paz Tanjuaquio & Todd Richmond of TOPAZ ARTS.
about the Artist/Curator:
Manuel Ocampo (b. 1965, lives and works in Manila) is a celebrated artist whose work has been exhibited extensively over twenty years, with solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. His first solo show in 1988 took place in Los Angeles, CA after which his work was featured in many group shows in the 1990s, including Helter Skelter: LA Art of the 1990s at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art at the Asia Society in New York; American Stories: Amidst Displacement and Transformation at Setagaya Art Museum in Tokyo; Pop Surrealism at The Aldrich Museum of Art; and Made In California: Art, Image and Identity 1900-2000 at the L.A. County Museum of Art. Ocampo’s work has been included in a number of international surveys – the Biennales of Seville, Venice, Berlin, Biennale d’art Contemporain de Lyon, the Kwangju Biennale, the Corcoran Biennale, and in 1992’s controversial Documenta IX. He has received many prestigious grants and awards including the Giverny Residency, Rome Prize at the American Academy, National Endowment for the Arts, Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, and Art Matters Inc. Recently in 2011, Ocampo was a featured artist in the Dublin Contemporary and had solo shows in Melbourne, Australia; Vigo, Spain; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Graz, Austria. In Summer 2012, Ocampo participated in a six-week artist residency at the TOPAZ ARTS studio in Woodside, Queens, NY to create new works for his solo exhibition at Tyler Rollins Fine Art.
about the 20 artists >
about the exhibition:
Bastards of Misrepresentation: New York Edition has been organized by TOPAZ ARTS, Inc. and by artist/curator Manuel Ocampo with the support of the Asian Cultural Council, at participating organizations Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, Crossing Art, Queens Museum of Art/Partnership Gallery, Tyler Rollins Fine Art and TOPAZ ARTS.
Schedule of exhibitions and opening dates:
Oct 27, 3-6pm: TOPAZ ARTS • Oct 27 to Dec 30: Bastards at TOPAZ ARTS
55-03 39th Ave, #7 to 61st/Woodside > details
Nov 1, 6:30pm: A/P/A Institute at NYU • Nov 1–7
Bastards at A/P/A at NYU
7-8 Washington Mews, N/R to 8th St. > details
Nov 3, 3-6pm: Crossing Art • Nov 3 – Dec 11
"Doing Time on Filipino Time"
136-17 39th Ave, #7 to Main St. > directions
Nov 8, 6-8pm: Tyler Rollins Fine Art • Nov 8 – Dec 22
Nov 10, 3pm: Artist Talk529 W. 20th St; A/C/E to 23rd St > directions
Nov 11, 3-5pm: Queens Museum of Art • Nov 11–Dec 30
Bastards at QMA/Partnership Gallery
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, #7 to Willets Pt. > directions
About the Presenter:
TOPAZ ARTS, Inc. is a nonprofit arts organization founded in 2000 by artists Todd Richmond and Paz Tanjuaquio. TOPAZ ARTS fosters the creation of new work in contemporary performance and visual arts, offering a creative development center for gallery exhibitions, affordable space for dance rehearsals, and artist residencies. Transforming a raw warehouse space, the 2,500 sq. ft. facility is designed by the artists using sustainable concepts - largely using reused & recycled materials and incorporating passive solar, radiant heat and maintaining an organic roof garden since its inception in 2000.
About the Participating Organizations:
The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University brings together accomplished scholars, community builders, and artists from New York City and beyond in interactive forums, reflection, and new research. www.apa.nyu.edu
Crossing Art: Located in the heart of Flushing, New York, where differences in cultures often collide, Crossing Art’s mission is to provide an international platform for the open exchange of ideas and aesthetics. Focused on bringing art to collectors and art lovers pro-actively, the gallery is a venue for art where collectors, institutions, corporations, and community members can participate in an interactive exchange with art. www.crossingart.com
The Partnership Gallery at the Queens Museum of Art provides opportunities for our cultural and other nonprofit organizational partners to develop and mount exhibitions based on their programs. In addition, the Partnership Gallery regularly showcases the work of students in QMA’s Department of Education. www.queensmuseum.org
Tyler Rollins Fine Art was founded in 2006 and opened its public gallery space in NYC’s Chelsea art district in 2008. Presenting solo exhibitions by major contemporary artists from the Southeast Asia region, Tyler Rollins Fine Art represents an impressive roster from the region’s most highly respected artists, who are regularly featured in international biennials, museum exhibitions, and galleries worldwide. www.trfineart.com
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"Bastards of Misrepresentation" is a fully artist-initiated project. All of us are working artists, coordinating together internationally. We have been working hard to bring this show to NYC “now”! The artist-driven and partnership focus at TOPAZ ARTS has allowed us to pull together resources and partners for the exhibitions. Through arts-based fundraising, the artists in Manila have actively participated in raising funds and art auctions. We still are in need of your support.
Please back this project now! Your participation ensures that we can cover expenses for the shipping of artworks internationally, printing & shipping of the catalogues, organizing the events and exhibitions at four venues, and assisting the artists who are able to travel to NYC!
It's all or nothing! We must reach $12,000 by 12/12/12, or we don't see any of it. In order to receive your pledged amounts, we must meet our fundraising goal. Please collaborate with us and be a "Bastards Backer"!
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