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MORE PROFILES THAN YOU CAN HANDLE (pilfered from Cubicle files 2005)

RONALD CARINGAL
A self-taught artist who believes art can save us all and whose works are largely influenced by Pop Art. He started painting seriously in 2000 and decided put up his own gallery, The Cubicle in 2002. He had been part of a couple of group shows and did his first solo show last June 2005. He incorporates sarcasm and comedy in tackling serious subjects. He tries to make sure that entertainment is a huge part of his art. He believes that his artworks should stir emotions and thought. And for him, going to an art exhibit should be as exciting as going to the movies. He hopes that his works serve as a light sigh or bring a sense of comic relief for his audience. With everything that is happening, we all deserve a good laugh.


CLINT CATALAN b May 10, 1980 in Makati City
An artist by heart and a designer by trade. He took up Bachelor of Fine Arts and Design – Major in Advertising at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila. Combining art and fashion, he was able to put up W.O.R.M.S. (Wearing One Really Makes Sense) – a line of bags and accessories in 1999 – definitely not for the faint-hearted. Having done a series of group shows and recently held his first solo exhibition last May 2005, he still continues to express himself in all sorts of ways – venturing in the movie and music video industry, cutting his own hair in all sort of ways, fortune telling in birthday parties and “spiking” things up.

ASTRO
A grafitti artist from Hamburg City, Germany – Astro visits the Philippines yearly to fuse art and grafitti. He did his first one-man show at the Cubicle last March 2005 with photographs of his “bombings” on trains back in Hamburg from the past years, Astro still continues to search the real meaning of life, with beer in his hand and house music in his ears.

BRU b September 18, 1978, in Makati City
A graduate of De La Salle University, major in Advertising Management, Bru is a pop culture junkie who writes and illustrates for a non-MTV MTV music magazine in the Philippines.She likes soft shapes, scraps of paper and sinking depths.

MIKE CRISOSTOMO b.August 12, 1975 in Quezon City
Most of his works deals with formalistic approach. He usually did automatic and expressive works in different types of media. His concepts intertwine with ringing sounds in his ears that create vast fusion of art forms. The play of mediums in Crisostomo’s works does not hinder his color blindness in creating art forms.

REINIER “BEMBOL” DELA CRUZ b the 2nd of June 1976, in Manila
He graduated at University of the Philippines, Fine Arts- Major in Painting. Bembol uses different kinds of media and does not only focus on a specific style. His works come from the polarity of representational to non-representational art-forms. For him, “art is conceptual because art only exists conceptually”.

RANELLE DIAL b. July 2, 1977
Completed her degree in Fine Arts major in Visual Communication at the University of the Philippines. Ranelle utilize a wide range of mediums and installation. Her keen interest in expressing art-forms deals with time and space. For her the thematic approach communicates the logic of time in a given space and form.

CARLO GERNALE ( B. 1979 ) BFA Painting Major, Institute of Fine Arts and Design, Philippine Women’s University [undergrad].
He participated in various Group Exhibitions around Metro Manila. Most of his work depicts issues of understanding, way of thinking, and behavior of common individual influenced by their surroundings.

MARCUSHIRO Born February 11, 1975, in Lucena City
A graduate of the University of Santo Tomas, BS Fine Arts - major in Advertising Arts.A graphic designer by day, Marcushiro moonlights as a children's book illustrator and takes pride in collecting junk from countless thrift shops. The pastiche-maker extra-ordinaire believes that red is the color of Monday, just like Kris Aquino.

JUCAR RAQUEPO Born February 11, 1973, in San Fernando, La Union
Has done several one-man shows and several group shows in Manila and has recently opened “Art Work Detailing” at the Cubicle July 2005. His shows of the past years featured abstract forms with graphic qualities, with just one genre of art that he does, he manifested yet another agenda in his art making and picture making, the freedom to do multi-faceted, diverse, and non-linear directions and intentions in art. Among others he has done and would like to continue to do are installations, mixed media art, and even realistic paintings of landscapes and still-life.

EUFEMIO RASCO, IV b 6th of June 1981, Studied at University of the Philippines, Fine Arts major in Painting.
He looks up at human figure as a basic form and shape. Whenever he paints, he treats it as a problem. That’s within the process and execution challenges him to find the solution. In his works, the child-like rendition of figure and almost non-recognizable images that quietly communicate a range of emotions or state of being from painful loneliness to introspection, whim and bliss.

COSTANTINO ZICARELLI Born in Kuwait City, Kuwait on September 15, 1984, raised in Italy
the Italian – Filipino finished BS Fine Arts and Design – Major in Advertising Arts at the University of Santo Tomas. He recently finished a two-man show with artist Allan Jay Balisi last July 2005 at Big Sky Mind Gallery Café. His art is very experimental and tends to shift from one art form to another usually with non-commercial subjects. The basis of his works are studies and sketches on paper using ink depicting his thoughts on god and the devil among other things before the actual canvas work begins. He has participated in various group exhibitions around the metro and was also a finalist in major art competitions. He is currently working on short films.