DANIEL ALIGAEN

“The subjects and themes of my paintings are also based on the things and people I observe around me. I take a slice of events happening and even magnify the little things and habits people do. I also enjoy playing with the aesthetics of geometric patterns and integrating them into my work.”

Daniel Aligaen graduated with a Fine Arts major at the University of Sto. Tomas in 2007, and began exhibiting in 2009. The list of his influences is not solely comprised of visual artists that he admires, but includes musicians, comedians, philosophers and fictional characters, which all inspire him as a person as well as in art. They are: Cinta Vidal, Raffy Napay, Ben Tolman, Mitch Hedberg, Les Claypool, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Robert Anton Wilson, Matsumoto Hitoshi & Masatoshi Hamada (Gaki no Tsukai), Hatake Kakashi, Oe Kintaro, Bill Hicks, Alex Grey, Papa Emeritus II, Reggie Watts, George Carlin, and Makoto Aida.

Bjorn Calleja graduated from Far Eastern University with an advertising degree. As early as 2005, he and some artist friends have been trying to come up with DIY group exhibitions, but it was in 2007 when they really had the opportunity to hang their works in galleries.

"Halos lahat po ng nangyayari sa akin sa araw araw dun ako kumukuha ng inspirasyon para sa mga ginagawa at gagawin ko, mula sa mga nakikita ko, naririnig, naramdaman, nahawakan, nalasahan, naamoy, lahat.., pinakikiramdaman ko po mula sa normal na perspektibo ay tumitingin ako sa ibang anggulo, mula sa pangkaraniwang salita, gumagawa ako ng panibagong katha, akoy isang pilosopong bata na karamihan ng mga bagay ay pinagkakatuwaan, laging may imaginary friends sa paligid mula sa malikot na imahinasyon, gumagawa ng sariling mundo, ako ay kaluluwang gala..., tagos sa kahit na anong bagay sa harap ko..tulad ng hindi ko paglimita sa mga bagay na kaya ko pang gawin at magawa..,pero may katawang tao na pangkaraniwan lang tingnan pag makakasalubong mo.."

I get my inspiration from what I do, and from what I will be doing, from mostly all the things that I experience daily, from what I do see, hear, feel, touch, taste, smell, all of them…, I get a sense of a normal perspective by looking from all various angles, from common vernacular I create new compositions, I’m a philosopher-child where most things I view with joy, always having imaginary friends around born from an active imagination, I create my own personal world, I’m a roaming spirit…, flowing through anything in front of me…the same way that I don’t limit myself to things I could do or be able to do…, you’ll find me having only a humble appearance the instant we meet.

Dr. Karayom is a visual artist that uses storytelling to entice the viewer of his works, using daily life and past experiences, he weaves the lines and shapes of his works using red as a primary color to strike something familiar yet fresh, red that shows gore, humor, and the truth that resides inside of both the pieces and the one looking at it, it becomes a mirror of oneself, society, and everything in between. Dr. Karayom is just an alter ego he is someone normal like us and he is someone that can shake us up to penetrate the facade that we put up every day. He studied at the Technological University of the Philippines, a CCP Thirteen Artist awardee in 2018, and was shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards in 2017 and 2019.

“I'm mostly interested in history, film and music. I'm inspired by hybrids, and the transformative implications that experimentation bring about in the creative process. I grew up reading a lot of Mad Magazine and Ikabod comics, and as a kid I got into S. Clay Wilson, Basil Wolverton and Nonoy Marcelo. “

Arvin Nogueras also known as Caliph8, (mostly associated with early Manila graffiti and Hiphop mutations) sees his work in a continuum. Since the early 90s, his interest with diverse forms of art, made it possible for him to cross and merge different disciplines. He uses an assortment of modes in culminating his ideas into actual visual works, sound pieces, installation or performances, always negotiating a multiplicity of relationships to the past, even while inhabiting the present. His exploration into visual and sonic experiments led him to develop a creative language that deals with ideas of merging sensibilities and creating hybrids along with their transformative implications. Overall, this undertaking puts a heightened emphasis on the multifaceted approach that is inherent in the process of experimentation. Nogueras studied at the College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines, Diliman, and began exhibiting in 2000 with Big Sky Mind.