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.

MoCAF 2024 | Vinyl on Vinyl

Vinyl On Vinyl showed up at this year’s MoCAF (Modern Contemporary Art Fair) showcasing some of the best visual artists in the country together with their in-house artists who continue to flourish in the local contemporary art community. MoCAF is relatively a new event that caters to local artistry since 2022 and continue to grow every year with its lineup for galleries participating. This year, VoV takes a subtle route in a small section in one of the event booths that featured some of the best and brightest artists in the local scene. But the entirety of the MoCAF event is certainly an overload of visual perspectives, and VoV is one of the standouts when featuring some of the artists that had their exhibit with the local gallery that has been around since 2010.

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 | Ghost Motel

Whenever there is an opening art show, expect the unexpected as it will take you into a rabbit hole full of curiosity and a lot of questions. There are a handful of artists who take it to mind to create this elaborate world from their imagination and visual concepts that some might not comprehend, and yet it works so much that it is unique. Jellyfish Kisses is that one artist who takes her creative imagination that is so out there the solo art show is a story on its own. “Ghost Motel” is her latest solo show that pushes the boundaries of storytelling combining punk aesthetics and queer sensibilities with otherworldly adult content that she works challenges those who have not explored beyond the norm of what is art to them.

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.

Vinyl on Vinyl | Unruh(e) by Arvin Nogueras ⁣

Visual art performance featuring installations is not new and has been quite a rare thing that you see in local art galleries. It ranges from how exotic, and has something to do with the human condition or sometimes doesn’t give you the physical tactile feels. But it also enriches your visual and audio senses that you do not get to experience in everyday life. It is really something to be immersed in and take a subjective look at something not painted or drawn that is hung from the walls of the gallery. For one night only, Vinyl on Vinyl brings you a Sound Installation and live mixing with Arvin Nogueras aka @CPR008 that will have his works on an exhibit titled “Unruh(e)” that captures that sound installation vibe that was performed in front of a live audience.

Vinyl on Vinyl | There is a World going on Outside the World that I’m in

Art is subjective and expressive, and it continues to push the boundaries on how people will react to it. The medium continues to inspire and take hold of our thoughts the way we deal with everyday life. Now, it depends on who’s looking and reacting to the painting, installation, or sculpture. But with the technologies of 21st century one must experiment and take risks in expressing themselves to the fullest. Art is one medium that continues to be relevant through the inspiration that brings the artist to produce wondrous things, and this is where Ciane Xavier continues to flow like the river or a wind that breathe new life to the open fields, which is her major solo show with Vinyl on Vinyl this month!

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…

Vinyl on Vinyl | "The Other Side"

05.16.2019 – Ciane Xavier is one the rising contemporary artists in the Philippines having been being part of Group shows in the country since 2014 and had her Solo Shows with Secret Fresh, Paseo Gallery, and now with her latest entitled “The Other Side” with Vinyl on Vinyl she’s pushing her artistry trying new things. Last night was a surprise for some who are not familiar with her work. Ciane, a native of Brazil didn’t start painting until she started doodling on her apartment walls. Five years later, she’s one of the sought after contemporary artists in the country now taking more provocative content in her latest work.

Vinyl on Vinyl | Sixth Anniversary Perspective

09.04.2016 – It’s been six years since Vinyl on Vinyl established itself as one of the art galleries in the Central Business District that started out more like a hobby than the usual place that you usually see in every art gallery. But there’s something more from its beginnings where it used to be located at the Collective and moved out to carve its identity more than just exhibit. It nurtured and promoted talented individuals with its own style redefining the modern contemporary art. It added its personal touch that celebrated its anniversary that defined its name.

#ItTakesCourage | Ray-Ban Launches Campaign!

08.19.2016 – When you talk about “Ray-Ban” immediately it’s a pair of sunglasses that your grandfather wears or the one that you see being worn by Tom Cruise in Top Gun. Since 1937 the eyewear has become iconic as its name that defines your look. Ray-Ban launches are its latest global campaign #ItTakesCourage defining all odds with a look with wearing the most famous eyewear. The event not only unveils the latest eyewear but also brings the best in what is the brand all about.

Inevitably Imperfect II: Akira Miyamoto!

07.29.2015 – Art can’t be defined but a diverse visual creation expressed by individuals who breaks the boundaries of imagination. I rarely write about my appreciation for art here, but this one has caught my senses and it’s weird. Earlier today Vinyl on Vinyl Art Gallery unveiled a collection of works for the “Inevitably Imperfect II” art show, which featured local and foreign talented individuals. This includes one the most imperfectly unique creations that certainly chilling and interesting…