Tag: Gateway Gallery

Gateway Gallery holds first onsite KulturaSerye Talk this Women’s Month

Gateway Gallery celebrates Women’s Month with its first onsite or face-to-face KulturaSerye Talk titled Pinay Power: High Impact Advocacies on March 25, 2023, Saturday, from 2;00 P.M to 4:00 P.M. at the Gateway Gallery, Araneta City.

The KulturaSerye Talk will feature the mother and daughter team of Zena Bernardo and Patreng Non, and will be sharing their personal advocacies, success stories, and the impact they made on their communities.

Zena Bernardo was recognized by Time Magazine as one of the “25 Most Influential People on the Internet” for her initiative to organize and launch the Bayanihang Marikenyo Marikenya, a nationwide campaign that aimed to organize community kitchens under the Community Kitchen Project. She also launched the web-based Home Quarantine Care PH in December 2020.

In May 2022, she conceptualized Project Hulmahan, an art-driven, mutual aid fundraising initiative that aims to support the livelihood programs of community kitchen volunteers, immediate disaster response of the community kitchens to internally-displaces persons (IDP) and support art mentoring for the youth in these communities.

Meanwhile, Ana Patricia Non, also known as “Patreng”, was the initiator of Community Pantry in the Philippines. She is a food security and sovereignty advocate and also the current President of Community Pantry Ph Inc.’s board of Trustees. She was the first to organize a community pantry in the country during the pandemic. Her Maginhawa Street pantry first distributed free foods such as vegetables, noodles, sardines, and some essential foods within that community

A UP Artists’ Circle Sorority and UP Mountaineers member, she took a Visual Communications course at the UP College of Fine Arts. Even when she was still in college, conducting free art workshops in the villages became part of her projects. She also developed and implemented programs for farmers, factory workers, political prisoners, and indigenous people.

Get to know more about the speakers during the KulturaSerye talk. It will be moderated by UP Los Banos instructor John Carlo Santos, the resident moderator and host of KulturaSerye. Admission is free but pre-registration is requested. The registration link can be found on its Facebook Page, GatewayGalleryPH.

March 22, 2023
Learn how to Paint Chinese-style at Araneta City’s Gateway Gallery

Prof. Arnulfo “Arnold” Esguerra returns to Gateway Gallery to conduct four sessions of Dynamics of Brush and Color, a Chinese watercolor painting workshop for students who are interested and passionate about Oriental art, specifically Chinese painting.

In this workshop, Esguerra will be teaching his students the Gong-bi style, the Traditional Meticulous style or what they call the Court style of painting, and Xieyi, the freehand or literati style. He has painted and exhibited eclectic themes in these two styles—from the natural world to everyday Filipino scenes, honing his skills through constant practice and teaching.

The sessions are meant to give the students skills on the proper holding of brushes (brush strokes); familiarization with Xuan paper and Chinese pigments; techniques in the meticulous style of Chinese painting; and techniques in coloring in the freelance style.

An expert and a prolific artist of Chinese art, Esguerra started painting at age five and has been practicing Chinese painting since the 1980s. He fell in love with Chinese painting when he attended a class on it in Liberty Hall, Binondo in 1984, the center of artistic activities in Manila’s Chinatown. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Philippines Manila where he has lectured courses on Philippine and Asian History, Archaeology, and History of Medicine.

Dynamics of Brush and Color will be held at the Gateway Gallery (in Gateway Tower, Araneta City) on February 25, March 4, 11, and 18. It promises to be a fun, learning opportunity through a focused and personalized mentoring approach. Esguerra will be providing limited but free Xuan papers, which he sourced from Taiwan.

Registration for all four sessions is at P12,000. Register early as slots are limited. Visit this link to sign-up and register: https://forms.gle/2eQhqVsNZ5NenV8e6.

February 20, 2023
Gateway Gallery’s ‘Extinction’ Art Exhibit Focuses on Wildlife Protection

Gateway Gallery, the art museum of Araneta City, is currently hosting the stirring art of Punjabi Artist Jaspreet Kaur in an exhibition called Extinction, which opened last September 10.

The exhibition features incredibly life-like paintings of different endangered species such as birds of prey and big cats such as lions and tigers, and was formally opened by various artists such as Fernando Sena, Pol Mesina, Romeo Gutierrez, and Kannan Chockalingam, the First Secretary to the Ambassador of India.

“I chose this theme for my exhibit because of forest degradation and because endangered species are at risk of going extinct in a matter of years. I know that I could not stop it, but I can paint them alive on my canvas, especially tigers and other big wild cats,” Kaur said.

Extinction is Kaur’s third solo show and is a potent display of the artist’s strong conviction towards the protection of wildlife and the preservation of forest habitats. “Humans are killing amazing endangered species to get their fur and destroying their habitat by fires or illegal logging. We need to stop all this madness.”

Kaur is a celebrated artist both in the Philippines and in India. Her art, mainly done through various media such as oil, pastel, acrylic, and charcoal, has been exhibited in various locations in the Philippines and in Punjab.

Extinction is in the Small Room of the Gateway Gallery and will be shown until September 24. Gateway Gallery is the art museum of Araneta City. It is open daily from 10 am to 6 pm. It is located at the 5F of Gateway Tower, Araneta City, Quezon City. Admission to the museum is free. To know more about the exhibit and other museum programs, please call +632-8588-4000 local 8300, or email gatewaygallery@aranetagroup.com.

September 20, 2022