Nova Gallery Manila in Makati has closed its doors on February 28, 2020. Here is a piece I have written about the first and only exhibit I have seen in it.

MENAGE A TREATS

Peije, Cheryl Owen, and Raine Sarmiento's Diversity

Three artists, each with their unique topics, team together with a mix of ideas that meet together just as watercolor meets paper in Diversity. Personality, nature and possibilities gather together in this exhibit.

Owen's drawings harmonize women and nature, with portraits of women interacting with nature's various elements. One could think that they're pictures of goddesses of each of nature's seemingly sentient forces.

Peije, meanwhile, takes on a person's personality and visualizes them through faces and the additional details that surround them, telling a story that hides behind the straight faces, with the title adding a starting sentence to this tale.

Sarmiento asks questions that tickle the imagination and make us wonder. These 'what ifs' ask of eating without consequences, longer nights and breathing underwater among other questions. The answers lies within a portait and the writings on the wall, the most that we could speculate.

Each artists' contribution is unique in themselves, but Diversity unifies them, creating an exhibit that tells three ideas, but reads like a seamless story. With such artistic output, three is a crowd.