Share on facebook
Facebook
Share on twitter
Twitter
Share on email
Email

Dumaguete artist mounts solo exhibit

• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO

EXHIBIT.  Dumaguete artist Tet Gallardo (center) opened her third solo exhibit at Abstract Art Gallery, B.S. Aquino Drive, Bacolod City Saturday with Patty Ong and Revo Yanson as guests of honor*

A Dumaguete-based artist opened her third solo art exhibition at the Abstract Cafe and Gallery at Northpoint Atrium, B.S. Aquino Drive, Bacolod City on Sunday, which will run until August 30.

Titled “White is the Dimmest Color”, the show features the works of Rev. Tet Gallardo in oil and acrylic on canvas, and mixed media, “which challenges the lingering colonial mentality wherein whiteness is seen as superior.”

She chose the title because “I felt that white has been given a privileged place in our lens as Filipinos when it comes to skin color, when it comes to prestige,” she said, adding that “I want us Filipinos to see beyond what we’ve been told about white.”

This intriguing title for one of Gallardo’s exhibitions flips the script on color perception. It proposes that white by obscuring and diminishing anything that doesn’t fit in its narrow definition of beauty, is actually the “dimmest” color. This challenges our traditional understanding of color theory.

GilJohn Quiamco, Patty Ong, Revo Yanson, Mike Borromeo, Rev. Tet Gallardo and Claire Algarme (l-r)*
Ma. Isabel Destacamento, Claire Algarme, Cedric Marty Labios, Adan and Crishyl May Embolutra, Leslie Mae Minasalvas, Rev. Tet Gallardo, Revo Yanson, Mike Borromeo, Kyle Jocson, GilJohn Quiamco, and Patty Ong (l-r)*

Meanwhile, Gallardo said she only started to come out as an artist this year but has started selling paintings during the pandemic for survival.

She started to paint when she was 16 years old but was discouraged by her father who said there was no future in it. So she stopped and only started to paint again when she went to Dumaguete in 2018 for a vacation.

“In order to heal myself, I had to be myself, which is an artist. So I recovered my own wounds by trying to express what I was feeling…. so this is more of an expression because I want to express who I am,” Gallardo added.

Guests of honor at the opening where Patty Jane Ong and Revo Yanson, Art Association of Bacolod-Negros (AABN) treasurer and director, respectively.*

“Lord of the Gaslight” and, right, “The Shanties”*
From left, “Burnt Offering”, “The Presence” and “The Crucible” – The Persecution of Diversity*
ARCHIVES

Read Article by date

February 2025
MTWTFSS
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
2425262728 

Get your copy of the Visayan Daily Star everyday!

Avail of the FREE 30-day trial.