Posted by ericsaints on May 14th, 2007 in Photo gallery

HEdCen’s very own Art Teacher, Jeanne Tan, is one of the featured artists in the AAF 2007: Sixth Antipolo Arts Festival currently being held at the Pintô Art Gallery. The exhibit will run from May 13 to June 30, 2007.

Below are photos of some of T. Jeanne’s “Recent Paintings” together with Pintô Art Gallery’s literature accompanying the display.

We urge you to visit the exhibit, as the photos fail to do justice to the beauty of the actual paintings.

“Floaty”

“Fence”

“Moon Road”

The paintings of Jeanne Tan translate impressions of the outdoors into a framework of a picture. But while the paintings interpret landscapes and seascapes into more intimate dimensions, there occurs no downscaling in the scenes’ presence. The opposite occurs.

“Left Behind”

Tan’s landscapes possess the distilled, essential qualities of an environment – imbued with its atmosphere and character. One can almost taste brine in the painting “Ilocos Sur Beach” (below) even as we can feel the sea breeze and the rough sand of “San Esteban,” walking through the lavender sunset of a late afternoon.

“Ilocos Sur Beach”

The works on view in this exhibit represents a two-year production by the artist, and is a collection of a number of series. Some of the works are direct quotations from Tan’s extensive travels around the country. In these she registers the image and experience of place.

“Antipolo Moon II”

Another body of work is derived from the vantage views of her studio home in Antipolo. Scenes of Antipolo’s rolling hills – dotted with transmission lines and radio towers.

“My Window”

A few of her works verge on the surreal – like vintas sailing though the sky (below).

“Flying Vintaman Too”

Her landscapes remind one of Chinese paintings, where people and landscape belong to one engaged whole. People are presented in the same scale as trees, they are part of the scene and not obtrusive.

“Stilty House”

“Ultralight”

Jeanne Tan’s brushwork is light, wispy, ethereal. Her paintings are empathic with mist of morning mountains, spray of a late afternoon seaside and the haze of mid-day hills rolling down the valleys into suburban forests. The great outdoors live in her work, as scenes in a glass bubble of the immediate; protected from the rough passage of time and the carelessness of memory.

“E Sunset”

“Duhat”

The artist received her BFA from the University of the Philippines in 1985. For two years she was artist for Casa Manila in Intramuros and held her solo show (1987) at the Vieux Chalet in Antipolo Rizal. Since 1997 Tan has held exhibitions of hers in the country including solos in Alabang (Gallery 139, 1997), Makati (Gallery 139-Glorietta, 1998), and a simultaneous solo exhibit in Mandaluyong and Makati in 2003.

Untitled

Tan’s work can also be seen in the collection of hotels such as the Linden Suites and Marco Polo Hotel in Davao. Since 1996 she has been a member of the Antipolo Thursday Group and an arts teacher for Assumption Antipolo from 2000 to 2002. She currently teaches art at the Holistic Education and Development Center in Antipolo City.

A detail from “Floaty”

The exhibit also includes “Stoneware Sculptures” by Hadrian Mendoza, “Furniture Design and Functional Art” by Rocky Camus, “Terra Cotta Sculptures” by Mark Valenzuela & Hemrod Duran, as well as Film Screenings.

Pintô Art Gallery is located at 1 Sierra Madre, Grand Heights, Antipolo City. You may contact Pintô Art Gallery by telefax (632) 6971015 or visit its website at www.pintôartgallery.net for more details.

Pictures of the artworks above have been taken, and posted in this site, with the permission of the artist.

All rights reserved by Ms. Jeanne Tan.