MoCAF 2025 | VoV: Silver

This year’s MoCAF (Modern Contemporary Art Fair) is about shining a spotlight on some of the best visual artists in the industry. If last year’s diverse talent featured under one booth, Vinyl on Vinyl focuses on one such talent who has been long enough during the time of the art galleries’ evolution as one of the known exhibitors to bring their artist that might have flown under someone else’s radar. That artist is none other than Iyan de Jesus, she has come a long way to carve her own niche and style that you might have not noticed. Her works has been featured in the international art scene as her works have been a subtle favourite among art collectors who have acquired her past works is here shining like Silver.

Vinyl on Vinyl | DIKO ALAM

“Diko Alam” is a pun and loosely translated in English as “Don’t Know” as one of the exhibits to close out 2024 for Vinyl on Vinyl Gallery featuring Diko aka Gabriel Tiongson, a visual artist born and bred in the Philippines who now resides in New Zealand carving his artistry at Kiwi Land is something always to look forward to the shows he gets the spotlight with his works. This is Diko’s second show following a two-artist exhibit with Mimaaaaaaaaw at the Grey Space Gallery in September of the same year. For this exhibit, Diko let his visitors express themselves through art using chalk on the floor, which you don’t see in most exhibits as the artist wants to show his visitors their hidden artistry.

Vinyl on Vinyl | Sheepskin

Change is good and character growth is defined by how someone evolves into a better person by being true to themselves. There is also consistency in how their personality defines their work. The passion that still burns in their eyes shows their adoration for their craft wanting to keep their feet on the ground while soaring to greater heights by shedding their skin or “Sheepskin.” Iyan De Jesus sums up as one of those local visual artists who have been working on her craft for more than a decade. She continues to define the odds and challenges of life in finding love for her work as it feels like the first time, which shows how her artwork has evolved over the years like she is telling her story beneath her works.

Vinyl On Vinyl | Strange Times

Sometimes, the best inspiration can be found on the internet. It could be a meme or a recently viral post on a social media platform. Cyberspace has become this vast ocean of visual diversity from the child-like innocent to the unregulated content that children below the age of 13 are not allowed to see. It’s something to take in if you have a stomach or a pair of eyeballs that can withstand random content not innocent eyes. It can be entertaining, and yet if you have a vast look at anything virtually and reality it is something to take in in these “Strange Times,” which is the title of this solo show featuring Chalk Zaldivar at Vinyl on Vinyl Gallery. The presentation for his latest solo show is both entertaining and visually inspired on the internet.

Vinyl On Vinyl | Make A Wish

There’s a place where you go and “Make a Wish” hoping for good tidings and finding the inspiration to keep moving. It sounds surreal for those fascinated with fantasy and fiction, and sometimes an art installation may take you to that far-off place that no one has ever heard of. It may sound cliché to those who never get to that dream, but this solo show by an up-and-coming artist will inspire you to do so. The artist who can make your wish is Mimaaaaaaaaw in an artful perspective way as she represents her first solo exhibit with Vinyl On Vinyl as one of the headliners of contemporary artists that are opening their reception for the gallery. This is not Mimaaaaaaaaw’s solo show as she has done a two-artist show and group shows.

Vinyl On Vinyl | Nevermind the Questions There's No Answer For

Some things surprising about going to an art show are unexpected at the same time it will make you react to an artist’s creation. It is always a treat to immerse yourself in a gallery of work that is completely unknown at the same time it gives you that impression of finding that inspiration and this solo show certainly have that. Is Jumalon is relatively new to the art scene, but her work shows that the artist appears to be a ‘veteran’ when it comes to her craft of abstracts and watercolors that take you a place of imagination in every brush stroke or contour of the paintings that have been curated and framed in the main gallery of Vinyl on Vinyl.

Vinyl on Vinyl | Arb'o

Sometimes odd things happen when there is something special about different works merging into one collaboration between artists. This group art show is about three people creating their art styles that would give you a subjective perspective on their works that would define unity under their different personalities and visual concepts. Arb’o is an ancient Syriac Aramaic for the number 4 (four). In this exhibition titled “Arb’o” three artists, Guy Custodio, Demosthenes Campos, and Carl Dumdum utilized the idea of number sequences and explored the symbolism of physicality and spirituality associated with the number 4.

Vinyl on Vinyl | Good Things

Art is not just about paintings on a canvas or sculptures that resemble the creator’s vision. They can be everyday objects but with the artist’s rendition and incorporation of ideas to a theme that represents a unique concept that is not done traditionally. Sometimes that creativity for that random object can be special to stand out. The Two-Woman Show “Good Things” by Mimaaaaaaaw and Pat Frades is something like that and more. It is aching to an IKEA showroom, but a place that makes strangers feel like it is a comfy room that they never expect to sleep in or even hang out with their closest friends, and it is certainly a place that takes you to this world they have put together.

Vinyl on Vinyl | Taken as a Lover, Burning as a Witch

You’ve seen it once you have seen it and most of the time going to local galleries you get used to the crowd. Then you learn more about the featured artist. For Iyan De Jesus, it’s been a long road for her work to be noticed. The same way Vinyl on Vinyl was just starting in a small art space that is nothing more than a high-rise condo presently at the old location where De Jesus started. VoV has been bouncing around to a location and then settled to their permanent home, where you will find other art galleries. In the same way, Iyan has slowly continued to refine and master her art style. Most of her background has been defined by gears, but she continues to experiment with keeping that signature aesthetics.

Art Fair PH 2022 | Projects Preview Night

After almost two years of hiatus Art Fair Philippines opened to the public, and the celebration in featuring everything “Art” doesn’t stop there with different style of creatives merging to bring you the best from the country culture that continues inspire people to appreciate, but to look at art as part of it. Preview night for the Art Fair PH/Projects were unveiled at the Ayala Triangle/Makati Stock Exchange area that is exhibiting ten featured local artists from all over the country, and this is their moment to shine that was visited by celebrities and local personalities that some have participated to be part of the ensemble. It’s great to be part of the celebration and here it is!

Vinyl on Vinyl | March 2020 Art Shows

Friday night was extra special for Vinyl on Vinyl whenever they’re set to launch Art Shows featuring solo shows for Martin Honasan and Teo Esguerra while Mila Bubliy and Isha Naguiat set up a two-woman gallery team-up that gives you a new perspective in their masterpieces at their main exhibit area. Beside Vinyl on Vinyl there are other galleries in the area that are also having their shows as another week winds down gearing for the weekend. Rarely, VoV opens up new art shows for the reason this is an extra special social activity for the art philes as well as family and friends of the artists that open up the night of good food and great conversations for those who have missed it this is what you missed…

Ortigas Art Festival | Explore the Facets of Art

Contemporary Art is making waves in the past five years through art houses and galleries acknowledging different facets of art from street to pop giving a fresh perspective and reinvigorating interest that built a cult following in a niche environment. But what if you bring the sensibilities of contemporary art and put it in a public forum such as the Estancia Mall? You get to see different spectrum of reactions from those visits by different walks of life. Ortigas Art Festival is that idea they have been building up for the last two years since opening the event to the public in 2018. From sixty participating artists now grows that includes foreign guest from all over the world!