From the inbox, an announcement from Galeria Duemila:
Ayala Museum proudly presents "Terrain:
The Works of Nelfa Querubin," an exhibition of impressive fine art
ceramics, available for viewing March 5-April 28 at the museum’s
Third Floor Glass Lane and Cross Stairs.
Amorphous, atypical and captivating, the
works of Querubin break away from the mold of mainstream ceramic pottery and
show a successful marriage of artisanship and artistry. Its geologic and
earthen style is achieved using formulas Querubin personally concocted and
techniques in firing with self-constructed kilns.
Environment plays a major role in
Querubin’s creative process, both as sites of material resources and as a
source of artistic inspiration. “My ceramic works are like organic shapes that
reflect nature around me,” she explains. Having moved residences numerous
times, from her hometown in Iloilo to her current one in Colorado, USA, the
natural beauty of the landscape surrounding her are captured and re-interpreted
in her works.
Querubin explains, “Colorado has a
gorgeous landscape scenery: the changing season, the fantastic rock formation
with exquisite textures and colors of different kinds. Those are the textures
and forms in my works. My love of rocks, water and nature, I found it here
abundantly.”
“But the Philippines is different in its
own beauty and I kept coming back,” she adds, “I now have two kinds of roots in
my heart… that shows in my ceramic works, the testament to my life.”
Querubin began her artistic
career working and freelancing as an illustrator, architectural draftsman, cartographer,
graphic designer and printmaker. She was introduced to ceramic pottery in the
early 1970s and has since been active in the medium.
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