Amiel Roldan blog

I'm trying to complement my writings with helpful inputs from AI through writing. Bear with me as I am treating this blog as repositories and drafts.  Here's a thesis exploring the multifaceted works of Amiel Roldan: Amiel Roldan™ is a painter, printmaker, and independent curator based in the Philippines. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Painting and has been active in the local and international art scene since the late 1990s. As a curator, Roldan has worked with respected institutions such as Imahica Art, Gallerie Anna, and Kulay Diwa Art Galleries: A Contemporary Art Space, beginning in 2005. He currently serves as a consultant curator for art fairs and creative spaces. Most recently, he was involved with the Manila Bang Show 2024 and served as Program and Marketing Director for Imahica Art during the MOCAF 2024 Art Fair. Roldan has a longstanding commitment to supporting emerging Filipino and international artists. He co-organized exhibitions for Studio One...

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 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 workloads 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 o...

History of the World   Immortality & the Spiral Ascent of One Juanito Torres About I met the painter and sculptor Juanito Torres in the mid 1990's, a dynamic figurative artist student then. Marveling at his outspoken personality, talent in figurations, observant singularity, unique character, and pragmatic existentialism.  And as a fellow artist student in daily struggle, we sought not only those in the academic institutions but the immensity and proportion of the applied in the real. We went to most leading galleries around and immersed ourselves in the aesthetics and patriotic debates among the norm in the Philippine art scene and the contrasting conceptual half of dissenting norms. He had a wider introduction than most to materials and theories in art early on as he belongs to the elite Makiling HS Visual Arts prior to his taking on a more formal painting course at the University. This earned him the foundation to be independent from any chartered route. Making his own ...

While Amiel Roldan is primarily known as a visual artist, his interdisciplinary approach extends beyond the canvas. Let's explore more about his writing endeavors:     Art and Writing :  • Amiel Roldan  is not only a painter and printmaker but also an independent curator . His artistic practice involves a wide range of media, including research , photography , and writing .      • As a curator, he has been involved with institutions such as the Jorge B. Vargas Museum , Kulay Diwa Gallery , and the Hiraya Gallery .    • Online Presence : • You can find more about his work and insights on his blog , where he shares thoughts, experiences, and updates related to his artistic journey.  • Additionally, you can explore his Facebook page , where he engages with the art community and shares glimpses of his creative process.  • Continuing Exploration : • Roldan's writing likely reflects his exploration of themes similar to those found in...