Amy Aragon
 

 

 

Born October 25, 1978 and graduated from the University of the Philippines in 2001 with a degree in Painting from the College of Fine Arts, and currently an assistant professor and full-time exhibiting artist.

Her style, bold and painterly is very vivid and alive with colors, and depicts a constant flow of movement. She bases her artworks on issues on commodities, and her collections. As one of her favorite things to collect are Japanese pop culture-related products, she depicts them in the same brilliance and activity as the animè she used to watch as a child.

Aragon deals with abstraction in painting which she incorporated with her interest in consumerist culture. Her bold lines and the hyperactive lines of movement of her works evoke energy which aims to transcend the static feel of a canvas, seeming to leap out at the audience.

Aragon describes her describes the method of her work; “ It is like combining the odds from the new methods and traditional methods (of painting using oil on canvas) in making art hence as it plays on commencing a new picture. My process elaborates a metaphor for painting as if selling goods.”

Source: Fondevilla, Herbeth L. New Pop: Postmodernism and Japanese Popular Culture in Philippine Art. unpublished, 2004.