Ernest Concepcion
Grip of Salvation I, II, III A Study Beyond Conceptualism for Ernest Concepcion's Art About When Filipino-American Ernest Concepcion started his works on these transmedia paintings, he started with large square formatted works as studies. He wasn't able to continue the series for an international exhibit a few years back but he was nonchalant about it and expressed more a gratitude to our academic training, flexibility, discipline with ideas and concepts from a common art professor at the University. The thrust of creating your ideas through several repetitions, deconstructions, medial studies, and several workload of hundreds of preliminaries might have brought us shared insights with the artists we really respect. Gaining understanding & choosing to work the formatted canvas as his large palette offered more challenges to us albeit in a simple way. For a time, Ernest Concepcion moved to Brooklyn, New York as a young emerging artist. I met him there again in 2003 while