JUST LOOKING by MELVIN CULABA

You are cordially invited to the opening of JUST LOOKING
by MELVIN CULABA

THURSDAY 11th JUN 2009 at 7 pm @ FORTH GALLERY
(above Bee Cheng Hiang on Pagoda St, just outside
Chinatown NE Line MRT Station Exit A)
69A Pagoda Street (2nd Level)
Singapore 059228
Tel: 6222 7809
Email: sales@forth.sg or justin@forth.sg
For detailed map, please visit www.forth,sg/contact.htm
Mon-Sat 12noon – 7pm Sun 12noon – 5pm

The exhibition runs till SUNDAY 21st JUN 2009.

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Melvin Culaba is a dark expressionist Philippine painter who offers
brooding insights into his surrounding social milieu. His second solo
exhibition in Singapore deals with apathy, about how people “just look” at problems, criticize, offer unhelpful comments, yet not lift a finger to solve the underlying conditions. In large epic canvases, his monstrous characterizations of people and objects, and somber, swirling palette mirrors the dire ills of the society he sees.

Melvin Culaba (b. 1971) graduated from the University of Santo Tomas with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1993, and has exhibited extensively in the Philippines, Korea and the United States. He has been a Finalist at the Philip Morris Philippine Art Awards from 1995-98 and 2006, and won several top awards at the Art Association of the Philippines annual painting competition and Metrobank Young Painters annual competition. He won a full grant for residency at the Vermont Studio Centre in 2005 and is a commissioned artist for the Official Christmas Cards of President Gloria Arroyo. Just Looking is his 11th solo exhibition and 2nd in Singapore.

First Oh Mikyung! Artwork thrills reception guest as everyone wants a piece of Mikyung’s updates.

Much excitment was created by the whimsical paintings of Oh Mikyung, which bring an different perspective of how koreans prefer to showcase their artworks. For one, it was said that Korean prefer to have their artworks displayed slightly lower then “eye level.”  We were also enlighten by the simple and sensitive ways of  how Mikyung set up her artworks with ease.

Oh Mikyung (right) was in high spirit throught out the evening as guest requested for her autograph.

Guest mingle and was still seen streaming in even after closing hours! Overtime is a happy problem that we always take delight in.

A FLOWER BUSH by OH MIKYUNG

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About the Exhibition:

“A Flower Bush-Still Life” consists of combining two kinds of expression, paintings and small sculptures. The Flower Bush is inspired by the myth of Pandora’s Box, but in her work the artist Mikyung Oh replaced the box with a pair of constrained, attractive red high heels.

 About the Artist:

Mi-Kyung Oh is a Korean artist who was born in 1973. She studied Oriental Painting and Arts Theory in Ewha Women’s University and Hongik University, and is doing the works of painting, sculpture, installation and performance in Korea, Japan and Singapore. She is usually doing her works about the female body. She has approached the body from motherhood of the Oriental perspective and sexuality of the Modern Capitalistic society. She has studied the interpretation between the female body and space in East, and used myth, traditional subjects and events.

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