Announcements
Pistahan Facebook Livestream Saturday, August 8, 2020 featuring: Bren Bataclan, Jeff Quintano, Carlyle Nuera, Ramon H. Lopez
Pistahan Facebook Livestream Sunday, August 9, 2020 featuring: Rosencruz Sumera, The Hinabi Project: The Art of Philippine Textiles, Jenifer K. Wofford, Angeli Clarisse Lata
Featured Artists
Bren bataclan
Bren Bataclan is a Boston-based artist. He was born in the Philippines and grew up in Daly City/Bay Area, CA. In the early 2000s, Bren began giving away paintings in public spaces with a note saying, "This painting is yours if you promise to smile at random people more often." Since then, he has given away over 3,000 paintings in close to 80 different countries and to all 50 states in the U.S.
His projects have also been featured in the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, The Smithsonian Magazine, The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The San Francisco Chronicle and most recently, PRI's The World.
Jeff was born into an emerging backdrop of Western values in the Philippines. It was through the lens of this transition that he grew mindful of the necessity to preserve and share the tradition of his culture.
After receiving a degree in the arts from University of Santo Tomas, Jeff immersed himself in a nomadic tattooing lifestyle. Over nearly a decade traversing Manila, Singapore, and Malaysia, to New York and California, he has truly solidified himself as a distinct force in the modern Filipino tribal design and tattoo world.
Ramon H. Lopez was born in San Jose City, Nueva Ecija, in Central Luzon to the north of Manila, on February 1983. At a young age his interest in painting developed. Ramon dreamed of becoming famous and not just for himself, but for the Filipino people. He wanted to make a difference and not confine himself to traditional paint brushes and colors.
Ramon has been featured in various articles and interviews due to his creativity and uniqueness of his medium. In addition to rust, he often paints using acrylic and sometimes combining it with rust. His themes range from erotica, abstract to Filipiniana.
Rosen was born in La Loma, Quezon City and immigrated to the US in 1967. He has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 53 years. He took art courses in junior high, in senior high school, and later in college. As a result of winning a nationwide “Draw-me” art contest, in 1971 he received an art scholarship in fine arts sponsored by Art Instruction Schools of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He also participated in the school’s art competition. Rosen has an incredible eye for detail that is immediately conveyed to the viewer upon seeing any of his art creations.
Rosen does portraitures for clients throughout the Bay Area.
Angeli is a local San Francisco Bay Area Artist who, in the Pistahan Innovation Pavilion in 2019, presented Art and Augmented Reality. For this type of work, you download the app “Artivive” into your cell phone and then point your cell's camera on to the portrait drawing. The drawing comes alive and the person speaks about their personal journey.
As an artist, my mastery is in my use and expression of color aside from my focus on people as subjects. This is reflective of coming from a culture, being Filipina-American, that is full of intersections as well as growing up in an area where I was fortunate enough to grow up in a community of color where I was able to learn from the diverse perspectives of people around me.
The Hinabi Project introduces to the San Francisco public, exhibits of textile arts by artisan families from Philippine ethnolinguistic communities who produce fabrics from pineapple fiber, Philippine cotton, and abaca (musa textilis) as part of its on-going awareness program. It has had three exhibits in San Francisco: The Art of Piña at the Asian Art Museum in 2015, Weaving Peace and Dreams: Textile Arts of Mindanao at the Mills Building in 2017, Mountain Spirits: Textile and folk Arts of Cordillera and Ilokos at the Mills Building in 2018. The next exhibit is scheduled for June 2021 at the historic San Francisco Mint on 5th Street and Mission.
Pistahan 2019 Art Pavilion
Featured local San Francisco artist Abel Manalo, muralist Anna Dugan from Massachusetts. Philippine American Writers and Artists (PAWA) table with books by Filipino authors and The Hinabi Project's blankets from Northern Luzon. Also at the Pavilion was Coloring Book Kids Workshop by LikhArts with Cleng Sumagaysay and Carmela Cucueco.
Anna Dugan
Anna Dugan (also known as Annadidathing) is a Filipina American artist living in Salem, MA with her husband (Danny) and their dog (Mango). She specializes in painting murals and doing chalk art. This last year, Anna has focused on exploring her Filipina roots through her artwork and has connected to many fellow Filipinxs through her work. She is working hard to help create more Filipinx representation in public art on the East Coast. So far, she has painted 3 outdoor public murals that represent her heritage & pay homage to her family. She also creates fun and colorful stickers that celebrate the different unique aspects of Filipinx culture. You can find her on instagram by following @Annadidathing to see what she will paint next!
For Pistahan 2019, Anna Dugan painted a triptych entitled The Three Marias. This year, Anna created the illustrations for the Pistahan 2020 poster.
Abel Manalo is a San Francisco-based artist. HJ pursued his creative artistic passion by taking art classes at a local college and over the course of the years considered himself as a self-taught artist, as he continually developed his own style and techniques.
His inspirations come from life, nature, the old masters and from contemporary artists, especially pop or lowbrow surrealism. He expresses his inner self more succinctly through painting.
Jenifer k. Wofford
San Francisco-based artist Jenifer Wofford is giving us a preview of her new work — PATTERN RECOGNITION — a mural which will be part of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco’s Hyde Street Art Wall. She invites us all to find the Easter eggs she’s embedded in the mural — patterns that reference the artworks of influential Filipino American artists such as Carlos Villa and Leo Valledor.
Carlyle Nuera
Carlyle Nuera is the lead designer for Barbie Signature at Mattel.
Designing toys that empower our children to feel seen and represented is so important. Carlyle is an artist and lead designer at Mattel, the makers of the iconic Barbie, where Carlyle has designed hundreds of Barbies, including the Filipina Mutya Barbie, which was inspired by his Filipino heritage and his own family — his mom Ruby was Miss Tacloban in 1976!
