the gallery of maria pureza escano
PINAY PRIDE: SM Pays Tribute to Global Filipina Puchette Escano
SM Supermalls gives a tribute to global filipina multidisciplinary artist Maria Pureza Escano through Pinay Pride, an exhibition held at SM City Lucena from April 9-11. This event was held in celebration of the National Women's Month.
Maria Pureza Escaño is a self-taught artist from Sariaya,Quezon. She started painting at the age of nine after seeing a coffeetable book on the French Impressionists. Her early works are characterized by impressionist influences which were ranked at par with the great American Impressionists (Designtaxi, January 28, 2009). Her growing reputation in the global art scene as a notable figurative and avant-garde artist followed after the phenomenal success of her two shows at New York’s Ico Gallery (curated by Skylor Brummans) in March and May 2009. These were followed by numerous invitations to exhibit from galleries here in the country and in the art capitals of the world.
She has exhibited with international artists Blake Ward, Jon Boe Paulsen, Ned Martin, Kaiser Kamal, Davor Vulovic, Ted Barr and Keith Morant among others. She sources her inspiration from having grown-up in Sariaya, with its landscapes both colorful and dreamy and its culture rich and vibrant with its Fil-Hispanic-American infusions.
As one of the country's most highly commissioned artists, her most notable public works include “Beachcombers of the Cebu Channel”, a 9 x 6 ft mural painted at the lobby of the new Japanese-owned Mariners’ Court in Cebu. Recently, she was chosen by the University of the Philippines for her rendition of "The Rose of Marya: Service through Excellence", an allegorical seven-foot fiber glass sculpture celebrating100 years of excellence and service to the community of the women of the University of the Philippines. Commissioned by the Alumni Association of the Sigma Delta Sorority, The Rose of Marya will serve as the landmark of UP Los Banos' Centennial Promenade and will be unveiled in March 2012.
Maria Pureza Escano is a banner member of the prestigious TIA organization, a select group of global artists who enjoy full representation and exhibition opportunities in key cities throughout Europe.
Maria Pureza Escano possesses a degree in English Literature from the Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation. She worked as a freelance writer and creative consultant for various magazines and organizations and became creative director of a design firm in Makati City.
Escaño’s well-received figurative art are characterized by soulful and light-hearted subjects and scenes which are reminiscent of her traditional and impressionist exposure while, her surreal art features evocative dreamscapes in vibrant patches of colors in either languid almost sinuous brushstrokes or in amorphous, stained-glass-looking shapes -a style uniquely her own yet universal in appeal.
At present, through her Ode to the Father exhibits, Maria Pureza is helping raise funds for the Scholarship of Hope, a scholarship for the children of “the poorest of the poor” of the Bukas-Loob sa Diyos Covenant Community. In 2009, she donated the entire collection of her Ode to the Father solo show to raise seed funds for this charity. (For more information: http://odetothefatherforsoh.weebly.com/.) Just this year, Maria Pureza and her husband, Rad, were designated as Global Coordinators of BLD Gawad Kalinga’s Scholarship of Hope Foundation.
Maria Pureza Escano is also a writer. She writes regularly for Art and Culture at Manila Bulletin’s Sense and Style.
Art Criticism on Escaño’s Works
“Escano’s works possess vitality, experimentation, multi-colored yet harmonious pattern, freedom of thought, purity of expression and above all, the creative energy of life... We are fascinated by her personal and powerful art research where the interaction of spaces, form and color connection create such intense and emotional results able to go beyond the physical limits of the canvas."
PAOLA TREVISAN
Curator
Creative Energy International Art Exposition
Ferrara, Italy
“...this painter never spares herself in her art; on the contrary, she investigates with true sincerity the many aspects of living, especially those closer to the feminine, showing great ability in her figurative art in her representation of the body, but also expressing herself masterfully in wider interpretations, precisely those of a symbolic and surreal nature.”
MICHELA TURRA
Art Critic
Trevisan International Art
Italy
“Escano’s art is “a breath of fresh air into the abstract-dominated international art scene” and are ”never only about exposition of skill but are songs of her soul sung as freely and as candidly as a birdsong... What makes her work exemplary is their light and soul, the underlying elements in the physical work which draw powerful affective responses from the spectator, opening up to him the many vistas and landscapes of the human emotion.”
RAOUL DE SAUVETERRE
Art Today – Paris
Pure, unassuming, soulful, her works give the viewer a glimpse of life’s simple but profound essences. What we like about Maria’s work is that it reminds us of what real art should be. Her works do not seek to impress through painstakingly studied techniques but are nevertheless impressive because they seem to spring spontaneously from an irrepressively hopeful heart. Viewing her art rewards one’s soul with new inspirations to see beauty in even the most ordinary of life’s occurences. And we leave with our spirits refreshed, eager to see the way her heart’s eye sees the beauty of life’s moments.”
FIONNA MCBRIDE
The Art Catalyst
New York
“Puchette Escano’s art is a bold deviation from what is commonly perceived as Filipino art.”
DEKADA ARTS PHILIPPINES
I see suppressed emotions relieved in her works and elevated to a kind of unbounded glory. I see such glorious magnificence in her artistic expressions. Her poetry is always ...observed in your visual creations .The realism in form and the expressivity of their implied meanings are at once noticeable. I guess her academic preparation has given her a solid compositional ability that provides sturdy foundation for your figure paintings. Her depiction of the characteristics of form and your delicate manipulation of those delicate features has given the figures under her brush, profound realistic meanings. Solid composition, precise forms, spatial arrangement, balance of volume allow them to have their weightiness and body as in sculpture. The forms are swift and lucid, noble and elegant, or peaceful and pure, contrasting yet harmonious.
Remigio David
Altromondo Arte Contemporaneo
Paris, France
Maria Pureza Escaño is a self-taught artist from Sariaya,Quezon. She started painting at the age of nine after seeing a coffeetable book on the French Impressionists. Her early works are characterized by impressionist influences which were ranked at par with the great American Impressionists (Designtaxi, January 28, 2009). Her growing reputation in the global art scene as a notable figurative and avant-garde artist followed after the phenomenal success of her two shows at New York’s Ico Gallery (curated by Skylor Brummans) in March and May 2009. These were followed by numerous invitations to exhibit from galleries here in the country and in the art capitals of the world.
She has exhibited with international artists Blake Ward, Jon Boe Paulsen, Ned Martin, Kaiser Kamal, Davor Vulovic, Ted Barr and Keith Morant among others. She sources her inspiration from having grown-up in Sariaya, with its landscapes both colorful and dreamy and its culture rich and vibrant with its Fil-Hispanic-American infusions.
As one of the country's most highly commissioned artists, her most notable public works include “Beachcombers of the Cebu Channel”, a 9 x 6 ft mural painted at the lobby of the new Japanese-owned Mariners’ Court in Cebu. Recently, she was chosen by the University of the Philippines for her rendition of "The Rose of Marya: Service through Excellence", an allegorical seven-foot fiber glass sculpture celebrating100 years of excellence and service to the community of the women of the University of the Philippines. Commissioned by the Alumni Association of the Sigma Delta Sorority, The Rose of Marya will serve as the landmark of UP Los Banos' Centennial Promenade and will be unveiled in March 2012.
Maria Pureza Escano is a banner member of the prestigious TIA organization, a select group of global artists who enjoy full representation and exhibition opportunities in key cities throughout Europe.
Maria Pureza Escano possesses a degree in English Literature from the Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation. She worked as a freelance writer and creative consultant for various magazines and organizations and became creative director of a design firm in Makati City.
Escaño’s well-received figurative art are characterized by soulful and light-hearted subjects and scenes which are reminiscent of her traditional and impressionist exposure while, her surreal art features evocative dreamscapes in vibrant patches of colors in either languid almost sinuous brushstrokes or in amorphous, stained-glass-looking shapes -a style uniquely her own yet universal in appeal.
At present, through her Ode to the Father exhibits, Maria Pureza is helping raise funds for the Scholarship of Hope, a scholarship for the children of “the poorest of the poor” of the Bukas-Loob sa Diyos Covenant Community. In 2009, she donated the entire collection of her Ode to the Father solo show to raise seed funds for this charity. (For more information: http://odetothefatherforsoh.weebly.com/.) Just this year, Maria Pureza and her husband, Rad, were designated as Global Coordinators of BLD Gawad Kalinga’s Scholarship of Hope Foundation.
Maria Pureza Escano is also a writer. She writes regularly for Art and Culture at Manila Bulletin’s Sense and Style.
Art Criticism on Escaño’s Works
“Escano’s works possess vitality, experimentation, multi-colored yet harmonious pattern, freedom of thought, purity of expression and above all, the creative energy of life... We are fascinated by her personal and powerful art research where the interaction of spaces, form and color connection create such intense and emotional results able to go beyond the physical limits of the canvas."
PAOLA TREVISAN
Curator
Creative Energy International Art Exposition
Ferrara, Italy
“...this painter never spares herself in her art; on the contrary, she investigates with true sincerity the many aspects of living, especially those closer to the feminine, showing great ability in her figurative art in her representation of the body, but also expressing herself masterfully in wider interpretations, precisely those of a symbolic and surreal nature.”
MICHELA TURRA
Art Critic
Trevisan International Art
Italy
“Escano’s art is “a breath of fresh air into the abstract-dominated international art scene” and are ”never only about exposition of skill but are songs of her soul sung as freely and as candidly as a birdsong... What makes her work exemplary is their light and soul, the underlying elements in the physical work which draw powerful affective responses from the spectator, opening up to him the many vistas and landscapes of the human emotion.”
RAOUL DE SAUVETERRE
Art Today – Paris
Pure, unassuming, soulful, her works give the viewer a glimpse of life’s simple but profound essences. What we like about Maria’s work is that it reminds us of what real art should be. Her works do not seek to impress through painstakingly studied techniques but are nevertheless impressive because they seem to spring spontaneously from an irrepressively hopeful heart. Viewing her art rewards one’s soul with new inspirations to see beauty in even the most ordinary of life’s occurences. And we leave with our spirits refreshed, eager to see the way her heart’s eye sees the beauty of life’s moments.”
FIONNA MCBRIDE
The Art Catalyst
New York
“Puchette Escano’s art is a bold deviation from what is commonly perceived as Filipino art.”
DEKADA ARTS PHILIPPINES
I see suppressed emotions relieved in her works and elevated to a kind of unbounded glory. I see such glorious magnificence in her artistic expressions. Her poetry is always ...observed in your visual creations .The realism in form and the expressivity of their implied meanings are at once noticeable. I guess her academic preparation has given her a solid compositional ability that provides sturdy foundation for your figure paintings. Her depiction of the characteristics of form and your delicate manipulation of those delicate features has given the figures under her brush, profound realistic meanings. Solid composition, precise forms, spatial arrangement, balance of volume allow them to have their weightiness and body as in sculpture. The forms are swift and lucid, noble and elegant, or peaceful and pure, contrasting yet harmonious.
Remigio David
Altromondo Arte Contemporaneo
Paris, France