Manuel Rodriguez Sr.

Manuel
Antonio
Rodriguez
Sr. (born January 1, 1912), also
known by his nickname Mang
Maning, is a Filipino printmaker.
He was one of the pioneers of
printmaking in the Philippines and
is dubbed as the "Father of
Philippine
Printmaking".
Rodriguez is also the first Filipino
to have exhibited his prints in
biennial shows held outside the
country. He also established the
Philippine
Association
of
Printmakers in 1968

Nicolas Cruz Bagay

Nicolas de la Cruz Bagay, a woodblock artist, was born in
Tambobong, now the city of Malabon, in 1701. Trained and
educated by the Spaniards, Bagay was a renowned Filipino expert
in engraving and printing during the Spanish times.
Bagay first drew attention in 1734 when he engraved Pedro Murillo
Velardes Mapa de Filipinas, the first detailed map of the
Philippines. His name appeared in 1744 in a reduced size of the
same map in an engraved copper. He must have gained further
prominence as an engraver as his name was mentioned in
the Cartas y Cartografica de las Islas dedicada al rey Nuestro
Senor por Mariscal de Campo Don Fernando Valdez Tamon
Cavaillaby Pedro Murillo Velarde.

Rod Paras Perez

The art and written works of Rod. Paras-Perez loom large
over the Philippine artistic arena, from his victory as First
Prize winner in the 1963 Art Association of the Philippines
(AAP) Annual Painting Competition for Ethereal Glow (1960),
to the ambitious series of multi-artist exhibitions paying
homage to early masters and important heritage sites that he
continued to conceptualize until his untimely passing in
March 2011. On Wednesday, June 18, 2014, the Ateneo Art
Gallery opens Illuminating Rod. Paras Perez: Beyond Art
and Its History, an exhibition of prints, paintings, sculpture
and mixed media work from the 1960s-1970. The exhibition
curator, Dr. Florina Capistrano Baker will give a talk about the
artist and his work at 4pm.

Rods career trajectory spanned five decades and three continents. He brought home the gold from a
prestigious international Italian competition in 1969; he received the Ph.D. in Art History from
Harvard University in 1971, the first Filipino so do so. Despite a successful early career in academia
in the US, Rod returned to teach art history at the University of the Philippines and eventually went
on to establish the Asean Institute of Art, influencing generations of artists and scholars, and passing
on art historical methodologies and insights.

Pandy Aviado
Virgillio Pandy Aviado (born 1944) first saw prints as a college
student at the Ateneo de Manila University. He was a member
of the Ateneo Arts Club and was a frequent visitor at the Ateneo
Art Gallery. Aviado remembers memorizing Ateneos print
collection, which became his first real education in the art of
printmaking.
Aviado pursued and perfected his creative and technical skills in
printmaking during his college years. He arranged to have
sessions at the print workshop of Rodriguez called the
Contemporary Graphic Arts Workshop. Aviado first worked on
stone lithography, then proceeded to the etching press. He
eventually had his own printing press fabricated from spare
parts found in a junk shop and set his own studio workshop in
his parents home. After joining and winning art competitions
and doing both solo and group exhibitions, Aviado obtained further training and specialization in
etching and lithography in Madrid and Paris.

Brenda Fajardo
Brenda Villanueva Fajardo (18 Feb 1940) began her career in the visual
arts as a printmaker and graphic artist before moving on to painting. Most
of her works carry strong historical and nationalist themes as well as depict
folk and mythological tales. She is best known for her use of tarot-card
motifs in her works.
She has held several solo exhibitions, locally and internationally.
Her Baraha ng Buhay Pilipino (Playing Cards of Filipino Life) and Buhay
Pilipino were notable exhibitions. She has also joined group shows in the
country and in international exhibitions.

Ivi Avellana-Cosio
Ivi Avellana-Cosio is a Philippine painter, printmaker, and photographer. She is especially known for her
Baybayin series of acrylic paintings on canvas and handmade paper that make use of indigenous motifs.

Lamberto Hechanova
Lamberto Hechanova (1939) was
active in painting and printmaking doing

abstract works, before he shifted to

sculpture.
He introduced the use of aluminum and

transparent plexiglass combined with

wood in a series of his innovative

sculpture. His works thus showed the

influence of the constructivists who

used chrome and plexiglass to achieve

virtual volume in sculpture and to bring

out its spatial dimension. He did a

highly original approach to his

materials. He also did large sculptures

in wood.