ON ART WORKS AT NORTH FORK: CONVERSATIONS & ENGAGEMENTS

As a poet and friend to artists in many genres, I know it can be difficult to receive feedback to one's work. Thus, this gallery blog began with conversations on and engagements with Filipino-Pilipinz art works residing at North Fork. Over time, I plan to bring in others' views as well as non-Filipino artists. Click on links below for their pag-uusap. —Eileen R. Tabios 

EXHIBITIONS

UPDATE:

Due to California's Glass Fire, gallery operations were temporarily suspended. As of 2023, the gallery is resurrected offsite in the Gallery Director's fire refugee quarters. The scope of exhibitions also has been expanded to include other artists besides its core features of Filipino-Pilipinz artists. Exhibitions can be viewed by clicking on the respective links below.

Offsite: The Refugee's Art Gallery:

"ORDEALS" by MICHELANGELO MAYO

April 2024

"AKWARELA: PETTY PEMINIST POETRY AND PAINTINGS" by MELINDA LUISA DE JESUS

Summer 2023

"THE KAPWA OF "POSTCARDS FROM MENTAL LANDSCAPES"
June 2023
A Group Exhibition Featuring Melinda Luisa de Jesus, Ulysses Duterte, Jr., Paul Hawkins, Geof Huth, harry k stammer, Julia Rose Lewis, Michelangelo Mayo, April Milszeski, Anne Murray, and Phyllis Shaw

"REIMAGINED LANDSCAPES" by REA LYNN DE GUZMAN

April 2023

"Wachinanga" by MEL VERA CRUZ 

March 2023

"Triangle of Strength" by ANNE MURRAY

February 2023

"No Timer, No Countdown" by ULYSSES DUTERTE

January 2023

Note From the Gallery Director:
Due to California's 2020 Glass Fire, gallery operations at North Fork Arts Projects (NFAP) were temporarily suspended. But as NFAP's curator, I didn't feel like giving the wildfires the last word. I decided to open NFAP’s offsite operations at my fire evacuee residence. Given that this residence and studio is much smaller than my pre-fire digs, the gallery's physical space also has downsized to, not even the closet but, the closet door. The Refugee's Art Gallery may well be the world's thinnest gallery—perhaps I should apply for a Guinness World Record!

My studio has a closet fronted with two sliding doors. One sliding door introduces the gallery. Slide that door away and the second door will be revealed with the hanging artwork. Obviously, all artwork will be flat as the distance between the two doors is 3/8th of an inch. But I can work with that (e.g. Ulysses Duterte inaugurates with an exhibit of drawings). I am glad to present NFAP's offsite Refugee Art Gallery because ART IS RESILIENT. I hope viewers also enjoy the presented artworks.

—Eileen R. Tabios 

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As always, you can enjoy previous exhibitions at the original Gallery location through their links below. 

North Fork Art Projects Original Site:

Previous Exhibitions: 

"#SIPSnailMailArt" by GLYNDA "GT" VELASCO
Summer 2020

"Entropy" by CRISTINA QUERRER

February-March 2020

"Kadilian (Coral Reef)" by JUAN ELANI TULAS

December 2019 - January 2020

"Poetry Ekphrasis" by JEAN VENGUA

October-November 2019

"Button Art" by REMY "MIMA" CABACUNGAN

Pop-Up Exhibit, Nov. 2, 2019

"The Zen of Doodles" by LENY M. STROBEL

September 2019

"Maliit Na Mga Libro": A Group Exhibition featuring IVY ALVAREZ, PAOLO JAVIER/EMMANUEL LACABA, ULYSSES DUTERTE, MATT MANALO, SEAN LABRADOR Y MANZANO, and E.R. TABIOS

Summer 2019

"Two Paintings"  by ISABEL CUENCA

May 2019

"Reflections in Black and White" by KARL FREDERIC MENESES

April 2019

"Why do we preserve when all are meant to fade?" by MEL VERA CRUZ

March 2019

"Prison Sunsets and Landscapes" by ULYSSES DUTERTE

February 2019

"Haiku to Canvas" by TREVA TABIOS

January 2019

"Mirror, Mirror: Reflection and Decolonization" by MELINDA LUISA DE JESUS

December 2018

"Pocket Paintings" by MATT MANALO

October-November 2018--INAUGURAL EXHIBITION!

CONVERSATIONS WITH THEIR ART

KATRINA BELLO 

EMMY CATEDRAL

MARISSA SEAN CRUZ with ELIZA BARRIOS

VENANCIO C. IGARTA: TWO PORTRAITS

MATT MANALO: "ATHENA" and "AJAX"

JOHN PATRICK MCKENZIE with MELISSA NOLLEDO

PATRICK ROSAL

ROY TABIOS

JEAN VENGUA and REA LYNN DE GUZMAN with MATT MANALO and VENANCIO C. IGARTA

Entrance to North Fork Art Projects

GALLERY PRESS COVERAGE: "New gallery in California celebrates Filipino art" by Walter Ang, Inquirer, Nov. 14, 2018. "A View From the Easel", HYPERALLERGIC, March 8, 2019. On The Refugee's Art Gallery, "A View From the Easel (2)," HYPERALLERGIC, March 7, 2024.