VISUAL ARTS

WITH THE CORRESPONDING CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS

VISUAL ARTS

An art form intended to be appreciated or

perceived primarily by sight. The visual
arts are art forms such as ceramics, drawing,
painting, sculpture, printmsking, design,
crafts, photography, video, film making, and
architecture.
FAMOUS CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTISTS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
1. Ronald Ventura
Ronald Ventura was born in Manila, Philippines. In 1993, the artist earned
a BFA in Painting from the University of Santo Tomas. Since then, Ventura
has continued to refine his signature style of multi-layered paintings, which
utilize a broad range of imagery and tend to focus around the human
form. In addition to paintings, Ventura also makes sculptures that explore
the same themes and aesthetics as his two-dimensional work.
Ventura is a contemporary Filipino artist known for his intermingling of
hyper-realism, cartoons, and graffiti with both historical and Pop subject
matter. His work portrays scenes of chaotic disarray, incorporating
traditional Western and Asian mythologies with contemporary cultural
symbols like Mickey Mouse.
RONALD VENTURAS ARTWORKS

Shadows,2015 Shadow Forest: Encounters and Explorations

Medium: Sculpture, Fiberglass, resin,metal Medium: Fiberglass, steel, resin, glass, paper, light box
FAMOUS CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTISTS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
2. Jose Santos III
He was born in Manila, Philippines in 1970. He received his BFA from the
University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts where he also taught for
several years. He currently lives and works in Manila, Philippines.
Santos early paintings consisted of collages and appropriated images from
Western artworks, which he juxtaposed to create unexpected
compositions.
His deliberate choice of subjects deal with a fascination with texture, and
the selected objects, ones mined from the artists own immediate environs,
show evidence of wear, tear and manipulation, each reflecting a peculiar
history and scars bearing witness to it. In recent works, Santos continues
his explorations of mundane objects, not merely to uncover their histories,
but to complicate our perception and understanding of these everyday
things.
 JOSE SANTOS IIIS ARTWORKS

Push and Pull Subconscious Upwellings The Sitting

FAMOUS CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTISTS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
3. Sam Penaso
is a multi-talented artist who was born and brought up in Bohol. It was here
he incubated his dreams of becoming an artist. He moved to Manila and
completed a degree in Advertising from the Technological University of the
Philippines. As a painter, sculptor and performance artist, Sam embodies the
multi-media, cross-disciplinary character of Philippine contemporary art.
His paintings have also developed from his early works of realism to
abstraction, and settling into his own distinct style with rudiments of
portraiture. Sam adds his signature touch of the unexpected, incorporating
numbers and letters that adds texture and depth, not only appealing to the
visual sense, but to the palpable senses as well.
SAM PENASOS ARTWORKS
FAMOUS CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTISTS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
4. Dennis E. Montera
The abstract expressionist hails from the tropical island of Cebu and has
spent more than a decade as a full-time Associate Professor for the Fine
Arts Program of the University of the Philippines.
Monteras own brand of process-oriented abstraction narrates the
sights, sounds, interactions, and experiences he masterfully translates
onto the canvas with acrylic and non-traditional media.
Aside from being part of the academe, Montera also believes in the
community art development being the past president of Pusod Cebu Visual
Artists, Inc. a founding member of the Creative Cebu Council Inc, and the
current Vice-Head of the Committee on Visual Arts of the National
Commission for the Culture and the Arts.
 DENNIS E. MONTERAS ARTWORKS

Winter Dreams, Ring of Fire I, 2016 Spring Awakening I,

Summer Wishes, Mixed Media on 2016
2016 Canvas Mixed Media on Canvas
Mixed Media on Canvas
FAMOUS CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTISTS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
5. Jeanroll Ejar
The artist was born in a family of wood carvers from Iloilo and Negros Oriental.
In the farthest corner of his familys workshop, 30-year-old Jeanroll Ejar creates
masterpieces from scrap, turning strips of wood into striking artworks.
The unassuming artist, who shyly dreams of becoming a National Artist
someday, spends most of his time juggling business, family obligations and
arts. He raised this passion combined with talent and exposure to the next
level. In his workplace he discovered that with imaginative mind and precise
hands, trash can be converted into novelty artworks.
Presently, he actively works with the group of Ilonggo artists to rekindle the art
scene in Iloilo, and to encourage Ilonggo artists to rise above themselves, too.
 JEANROLL EJARS ARTWORKS
The Reflection of Confusion
Medium: reflector and aluminum
sticker on autofinished plywood

Ejars Retazo and broken things Soar High You and I

Art Medium: Hardwood, rope, sawdust, resin
FAMOUS CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTISTS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
6. Costantino Zicarelli
He was born September 15,1984 to an Italian engineer father and a Filipina nurse
mother in Kuwait and spent his formative years in Italy. He later on moved to the
Philippines where he earned his Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts Major in Advertising
from the University of Santo Tomas.
Belongs to the new generation of artists whose paintings are difficult to like but
harder to ignore. His art differs from the standards as he chooses to paint the
deviant and morose. With his art, Costantino Zicarelli hopes to change how viewers
look with disfavor and antipathy paintings that are not eye candies. His works
reflect his belief that an artist must be bolder in his stance and subjective feelings
and emotions must be given priority than reality or nature objectively. He is a self-
proclaimed failed musician and graffiti artist whose works reflect the history of
drone metal, black metal, and everything rock n roll.
 CONSTANTINO ZICARELLIS ARTWORKS

Until the Light Takes Us VI

In the end it is just another

Pedro Ubaldo Ain't Holy forever painting (oil on canvas)
Anymore (oil on canvas)
FAMOUS CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTISTS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
7. Rodel Tapaya
He was born in 1980 in Montalban, Rizal, situated a few kilometers away
from Manila. After winning an international painting tilt, he pursued
intensive drawing and painting courses at Parsons School of Design in New
York and from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki prior to
graduating from the College of Fine Arts at the University of the
Philippines.
Among his achievements are the 2012 Thirteen Artists Awards from the
Cultural Center of the Philippines, being shortlisted twice for the Ateneo Art
Award and winning a jury prize at the Phillip-Morris Philippine Art Awards
in 2007.
 RODEL TAPAYAS ARTWORKS

Cane of Kabunian, Numbered But Mountain Fantasies

Cannot Be Counted
FAMOUS CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTISTS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
8. Ray Mudjahid Ponce Millan
Better known as Kublai Millan or Kublai is a prolific artist from Mindanao
was born on July 8, 1974 in Cotabato City. Kublai started his career
when he made all the artworks both inside and outside of his familys
hotel; Ponce Suites. His mother is the manager of the hotel. He studied
at the University of the Philippines for his higher education and attained
a degree of Fine Arts. After his graduation from college he returned to
Mindanao, painting and sculpting subjects relating to the culture of his
hometown.
He is known for his giant sculptures. Aside from being a sculptor he is
also an art photographer, painter, digital artist and performance artist.
 KUBLAI MILLANS ARTWORKS

Towering Philippine
The giant durian
Eagle statue at the
outside Davao
border of Davao and
International Airport
Bukidnon
THE AIM OF ART IS TO REPRESENT NOT THE
OUTWARD APPEARANCE OF THINGS, BUT THEIR
INWARD SIGNIFICANCE.

- ARISTOTLE
GROUP 3
Sheen Jexslie R. Colada
Ma. Veronica M. Rodriguez
Ruzia Nika D. Wayco
Christine V. Bato-on 45
Marichelle P. Caro
Cristelle G. Oliveros
Ivan Joseph D. Bonghanoy
Kenneth P. Padernal
John Mark M. Cabatu-an
Leo Salo