XAVIER ART FEST 2023
January 27 - 29, 2023
GALLERY PROFILE
DF Art Agency is a Manila-based professional artists’ representative firm that primarily aims to offer both emerging and established artists strategic advice and empower them to explore opportunities where they can share their originality to the world. The other roles of DF Art Agency also include arts business consultancy, strategic arts engagement, and private arts collection management.
The Agency is committed to investing in and nurturing its artists’ talents by working closely with them as they build their careers. Whatever the genre is, the Agency helps the artists reach markets and open a world of opportunity and networks.
Founded by Derek Flores in 2011, DF Art Agency continues to advocate contemporary arts and to search for more talent that can be showcased on both Philippine and international platforms.
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Angelo Quintos is a visual artist, living and working in the Philippines. He is represented by DF Art Agency.
He has a passion for creating the beautiful, the creative, and the memorable. That is what an artist does-takes a vision and transforms it into an exceptional work of art. Angelo believes that art is his gift and that he has the unique ability to express it through different mediums. His art represents his life: No limits.
“I am not pursuing perfection through my paintings; rather I strive to create that is true. My work is heavily influenced by life. A lot of my work is based on people around me and what’s going on with the world.
I spectate and if I feel like the mood is grey then that’s how it’s gonna come out. I never start out actually knowing where the painting is going and when it will end.”
- Angelo QuintosIan Anderson debuted with a mural commissioned by Cartoon Network in 2016 at their headquarters in Burbank, California. The piece was in the form of a six floor hand-painted maze complete with an inherent “start to finish” solution. This was followed up with a solo exhibition at the same studio that solidified the launch of Ian’s career as an artist.
In 2017, Ian Anderson began his international ventures to develop a clientele outside the United States. To start he had a solo exhibition in Tokyo which incorporated performance art and shibari into his work.
In 2018, he had his first show in the Philippines, where he is now based. The group show at Leon Gallery International featured Ian's "In the Near Distance" collection.
Today, Ian Anderson’s regular clients are collectors in North America, Europe and Asia.
The works of Ian Anderson are characterized as meticulous and extremely labor intensive hand drawn art on two or three dimensional objects. It mixes the abstract and the figurative, weaving characters and text to create distinct visual narratives. Puzzles, mazes, games and whimsical figures are playfully integrated into the themes.
Sean was born and raised in Manila, and was educated in the USA to broaden his perspectives. He has 7 degrees from UC Berkeley, Emory, Columbia, and the Fashion Institute of Technology.
From these diverse learning opportunities, Sean has blended a unique appropriation style in his art that parodies, yet pays homage to some of the pop artists before him - among them Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jeff Koons. Because of his education in economics and business, as well as his international upbringing, Sean's pieces incorporate themes of capitalism, coloniality, and human nature, often in a witty and fun way which is more nuanced that what initially meets the eye.
“Paintings with Poetry”, Tita Halaman’s works are mostly about the pillars and power of human emotional intelligence. Her subjects beautifully strike emotional impact and capture attention to the viewers. She usually inspire the audience by portraying pain translated to extreme courage on her canvases using her characters with dark, melancholic and chaotic faces mixed with loud, bursting colorful texture of strokes of oil paint overlapping its frame. The narrative is always sad yet hopeful, hopeful no matter how bad a situation gets.
Every Tita Halaman painting painting has its own unique and original poem personally written by her and will be soon published as a book. Her poetry style is usually free-verse, dramatic and motivational. All poems of her paintings are also published online: hellopoetry.com/TitaHalaman
The artist name concept "Tita Halaman" is about a young person described as "Tita" for having an old soul personality and "Halaman" for being extremely awkward and introverted.
“As a child, I grew up so reserved and unsociable. I was this timid type of nerd back then. I didn't even play and socialize with other kids. I didn't talk that much and all I did was get my notebook and pencil, drew some figures that represented the words that I wanted to voice out. My burning passion for art, it all started there. So I decided to name myself as “Tita Halaman”
₱ 57,600
₱ 57,600
"I’ll Pull You Up with Flowers"
2023 acrylic on canvas with frame (made of kiln dry wood and clay, personally handcrafted by the artist)
48" x 36" (122 cm x 91 cm)
₱ 57,600
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