ArtistSpace, an art gallery established in 2004, reopens on February 21 with The Journey Continues, a solo exhibition of Filipino visual artist and practicing lawyer Joy Rojas.
Organized by Pintí´ Art Museum and supported by The Saturday Group, the exhibition provides a glimpse of the rich, varied world of the artist through paintings, sculptures, and mixed media.
The Journey Continues highlights the artist’s notable abstract works, vibrating with lavish impasto, and revealing a luminous sheen on roughened surfaces. While the energy of the works is hectic and coruscating, a prevailing softness infuses them, perhaps with how color and light shift subtly on the pictorial plane.
Expanding his visual repertoire, the artist presents sculptural works that feature a father and a daughter (which is an inversion of the conventional mother and child genre) as well as the artist’s homage to Lady Godiva.
The show’s formal reception is slated on February 22, to be graced by Alice Eduardo, Ching Cruz, Jaime Ponce de Leon, Ernest Escaler, and other esteemed guests.
Joy Rojas, professionally known as Atty. Jose Ferdinand M. Rojas II, has been exhibiting his works since 2014. In 2017, he held his first solo exhibition entitled Strong Material at Saturday Group Gallery in Mandaluyong City. The Journey Continues, organized by Pintí´ Art Museum, is his 6th solo exhibition.
An active member of The Saturday Group, one of the oldest and most respected artists’ organizations in the country, Rojas has joined its many group exhibitions and collaborated with its artists. In an article, art critic Cid Reyes notes that “Rojas transforms a surface into an encounter with the infinite varieties of sensation, tension, and languorous mood.”
As a practicing lawyer, he runs his own firm, specializing in estate planning and corporate, real estate transactions. He is married to Patricia Bunye Rojas, who is also a lawyer.
The Journey Continues will be on view from February 21 to March 6 at the ArtistSpace located at Ground Level, Ayala Museum Annex, Makati Avenue corner De La Rosa Street, Greenbelt Park, Makati City. It is open daily from 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM. Admission is free.
For queries on the exhibition, you may call or e-mail Ms. Jenny Villanueva at +632 8697 1015 or pintoartmuseum@yahoo.com.
