Charles Valoroso (Chale’ V), a Kauai-born Filipino American Artist. Charles Valoroso is "the Boomer," a self-described art activist who recently returned home to Hawaiʻi after 50 years in arts education in California.
Charles Valoroso
Barong Aloha, 1989
48” x 60” Oil in Canvas
Barong Aloha is a hybrid concert garment design based on the multi-cultural identity of immigrant worker from Asia and the Pacific Island (PI) archipelago known as the Philippines during the sugar cane era.
Bryzane is just one Filipino local boy, grad Farrington High in the late 90s. He studied filmmaking at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). His passion and pride of his Filipino roots found purpose in reminding his community to embrace identity and acceptance, rallying against current negative branding of race, gender, sexuality, homelessness and politics.
Bryzane Lagmay
Ark & Flood: A Thousand Years Of Unimaginable Tears & Sorrow 2020
37” x 37.5 x 2”
Mixed Media on Canvas (Manipulated Cut & Paste Collage, Resin, Acrylic, Oil, Graphite, Dirt Stain, Carbon Ink Stain, & Ipe Wood Frame)
$1,500 (Framed)
This piece is a homage to our hardworking and resilient Filipino parents, artists and collectors. The biblical story of The Flood is the background to the piece. This piece tells the story of collecting and coveting objects in an effort to grow closer to salvation, as relics do. The subject is scanned repeatedly and holds various symbolic items that is representative of past and present. My intent of this piece was to dissect an image, yet repetitively arrange them and preserve the image in an emblematic way.
Born in the Philippines, Paul Anthony Galang spent most of his childhood in an Ilocano household before he immigrated to O‘ahu in 2001. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa in the spring of 2015. As a printmaker working primarily in lithography, his works often depict the process of growth and decay, and an interest in the human body. Paul’s work frequently represents the idea of dislocation, isolation and a sense of loss. He hopes to learn and uncover the connection and disconnection between self and non-self or the ‘native’ and the ‘foreign’.
Paul Anthony Galang
“Buneng Ni Tatang Ko”
15”x19”
Stone Lithograph
$400 (unframed only)
Immigrants often bring items or objects with them to a foreign country, such as family photographs, clothings, certain types of food, and other valuable items. The sacred object portrayed in this lithograph print is a buneng or badang (large knife) often used by the male adults in a Filipino household for domestic and agricultural use. This particular bolo knife was forged in the Philippines many years ago and was handed down from my uncle to my father.
Eduardo Joaquin is a contemporary figurative painter. Born in Manila but raised on Oahu, Joaquin is currently pursuing his BFA in painting at UH Manoa. His current body of work revolves around diasporic Filipino identity.
Eduardo Joaquin
“Balikbayan”
30” x 40”
Oil on Canvas
$2,300
Eduardo Joaquin
“Quiboloy”
30” x 40”
Oil on Canvas
$2,250
Florani Camacho is a young adult artist born and raised in Cebu, Philippines, and has found Oahu, Hawaii as her home for the last six years. She found a passion for painting three years ago and is currently studying oil painting at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Florani embodies her experiences as a woman in her artwork through contemporary portraiture. More recently, she has been digging deep into Filipino pre-colonial times; these scenes can be seen in her latest work.
Florani Camacho
“Loving Hands” 2022
28” x 44”
Oil on Plywood
$750
These are my parents’ hands. You may notice that I painted their left hand with their wedding rings on their finger to symbolize their marriage. Through their marriage of 28 years, they raised four loving and beautiful children. Their love, prayers, values, and sacrifice birthed us into this world. Through them, I found what it meant to live.
Florani Camacho
“Having Everything Revealed” 2021
11” x 14”
Mixed Media
$300
This painting was born as an appreciation for RnB music. The bright colors in the background with the mixture of cut-outs from a vintage vinyl sleeve juxtaposed with the black and white portrait is an interpretation of the ever-evolving genre.
Florani Camacho
“Losing” 2021
Oil on Wood Panel
11” x 14”
$300
To let go of something is to give space for new things and providing space for new things allows room for growth. This painting was inspired by my experience of letting go of the unwanted things that weighed me down and allowing myself to be free from my self-sabotaging thoughts. This painting is the third and final piece of my self-portrait series.
Gloriani “Ani” Lontoc was born in Manila, Philippines. Having grown up in a small town in Cavite, his love of the outdoors grew tremendously. Throughout his life, Ani has always been fascinated by images and how the world is represented through the eyes of others. Naturally, he was drawn to painting, sculpture and photography. The interest was cultivated during his teenage years and further developed when he opted to take Fine Arts in college.
Ani explored even more into his artworks, which involved nature scenes and events of life. The images that he takes on his walks in the landscape are only part of the story. It is a relationship between the artist and the subject. He cherishes this connection with nature. He feels that the artistic exchange between the subject and the artist opens up many opportunities.
In his decades-spanning practice, Ani has explored through different materials and mediums. In his early works in the 70’s to the 90’s, he created images highlighting bright colors as major compositions. He later experimented with abstraction and using black paints on his art works. Working on a large scale, he draws for inspiration, transferring its energy into his developed marks in pen and ink, into single unified compositions.
Winner of several painting competitions, and several one-man and group exhibits, Ani has also offered free seminars on drawings. He teaches 6-12-year-olds in order to help them foster the same enthusiasm that he has for arts.
In Hawaii, since the mid-20’s, Ani focused mainly on glass mediums. Specifically on Abrasive Blasting, a technique used in glass etching to achieve an etched surface in glass whether for artistic effect or simply to create a translucent surface.
Gloriani “Ani” Arcega Lontoc
“FLIGHT”
24” X 36”
Acrylic & Colored Pens on Canvas
Gloriani “Ani” Arcega Lontoc
“RIPE AND READY”
22” X 28”
Acrylic & Colored Pens on Canvas
Gloriani Karla “Keeyan” Aquino Lontoc was born in Cavite City, Philippines. Her love of drawing was developed through her interests in crayons and colored pencils.
From doodling to sketching, she already produced several artworks at a very young age.
Her subject matters vary. But mostly nature, usually still-life, landscapes and flower painting. Whether watercolor or acrylic, Keeyan enjoys everything that is captured in the spontaneous movement of the brush as it meets the canvas. Her work in general is frequently about layers, the physical layering of images, figures, and concepts.
She’s the Grand Prize winner at Honolulu Academy of Arts T-shirt Design contest, and won several local Poster Design contests.
Keeyan now lives in England.
Gloriani Karla Aquino Lontoc
“HAPPINESS”
24” X 18”
Original Acrylic & Colored Pens
Marysol A. Damo holds a Doctorate of Architecture and received her architecture license in 2018. Marysol built her professional career off-island in the San Francisco bay Area, Hong Kong, Guam and Seattle. In 2015, returned home to be closer to family.
Marysol A. Damo
My Core, Integrity & Journey 2018
24”x48” Mixed Media on Wood
Not For Sale
My Core, Integrity & Journey is about growing up Filipino-American and struggling between a set of conservative Catholic family values and wanting to embrace a modern American culture. I started this piece to help resolve the heaviest guilt I had ever felt in my life as I watched my mother move into her advanced phases of Alzheimer’s disease. I just couldn’t honor my mother’s wishes to be her caretaker because it meant I would have to give up a career, the chances to find romantic love and start my own family. This piece centers on trying to recover from failing my mom, finding some grounding and some kind of holy spirit.
Marysol A. Damo
“Self-Titled (Debut)” 2018
18”D
Carved Plywood
NFS
My name is “Mar-y-sol” which means sea and sun. However, I’m sure my mother’s true intent for my name was to be: the sun of the Virgin Mary. This piece is wholly an honor to my mother, the tears she cried, the love she had for me (her favorite) and me seeking balance and strength. The carved imagery is an interplay of the ocean and the sun, feminine and the masculine, mother and daughter.
Marysol A. Damo
“Commodification Of The Immigrant Dream In Technicolor” 2020
8”x8”
Mixed Media on Wood
$1,800
She’s the “Golden Girl with the Golden Pineapple.” I left Hawaii in 2010 to pursue my career. I managed to get-by by staying focused on my goals of “making it” but over time I grew a void that my homesickness burned in my stomach. I imagined this parallel storyline in the Hawaii plantation era and created this from old postcards.
Marysol A. Damo
“Definitions of Her Series” 2022
12”x12”
Mixed Media on paper
10 prints. 10 stories. These four compositions come from a 10-part series, expressing states and situations of Her. This direction envisions the resilience of important “paperwork,” (i.e. birth certificates, naturalization papers) and how paper, thought to be so delicate, can evolve, age and weather, making what would necessarily be flat, have its own unique and subtle dimensionality. She represents infinite circular evolution of subtle dimensions as she navigates where she’s meant to be. She is whomever you want to see, but she is supposed to give off Virgin Mary vibes, since she is the greatest female power I’ve ever known. This series is an experiment in the use of the Powers of 10.
Marysol A. Damo
“She Is The Energy” 2022
#3 of Definitions of Her Series
12”x12”
Mixed Media on paper
NFS
Energy is not a solid form. She vibrates with subtlety. She is conservative, universally loving, and easy to like. She is reserved for my longest and dearest friend, Ruby Marcelo. She is my muse.
Marysol A. Damo
“Where The Water Meets The Sun” 2022
#2 of Definitions of Her Series
12”x12”
Mixed Media on paper
NFS
Solid, fun, early 1990’s vibes. This is Her if she were on the summer season of Saved By The Bell, working at Malibu Sands.
Joy Sanchez is an educator and artist of Igorot heritage based in Oˋahu, Hawaiˋi. Sanchez's work operates around themes of mental health, cultural identity and materiality. Their work utilizes ceramics, fiber, and metals in the forms of installation, sound objects, performance, and wearable art. Sanchez has an Associate in Liberal Arts from Leeward Community College and a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. While at UHM, they were a recipient of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, as well as a two-time recipient of the Jean Charlot Foundation Scholarship.
Joy Sanchez
“Sisters” 2019
Series Collection:
8” x 8.5 x 5”
11.5” x 9.5” x 6”
24” x 14” x 6.5”
Stoneware, Cone, 10 reduction. Handbuilt, Iron washed & sprayed w/ soda ash
The work “Sisters” is a series of objects that represent the act of passing on knowledge from one generation to the next which is reflected in form and process. It utilizes a particular hand building technique that entails forming a “patty” of clay onto another, or a base of clay and using vertical and inward pinching motions to propel the clay upward (or whatever direction intended). This motion pulls part of the clay that is being added. Every piece of clay acts as a foundation for the next. This results in a very strong form.