Noelle Katigbak Tan
August 14-September 27, 2008
Opening reception, 6pm on August 14, Thursday

Silverlens Gallery is proud to announce the opening of the first solo show of
Noelle Katigbak Tan in Manila at 6pm on August 14, Thursday. The show will run
until September 27, 2008.

For her show, Noelle Katigbak Tan will be exhibiting two sets of works, Drawing
and Untitled. According to the artist, “These bodies of work depict landscapes
that hover between emerging and being, the seen and the subliminal. They
challenge the viewer to question what it is they can actually see in the
photograph.” Aptly called Drawing, Tan’s series of 18 darkroom printed
photographs seem like sketches made with pencil at first glance. Bathed in pure
white, Tan’s panoramas blind viewers and hint of familiar scenery. A stark
contrast to Drawing, Untitled is a collection of 13 silver gelatin prints in
rich black with spark-like bursts of light.

Paul Roth, Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
describes Tan’s work: “Noelle Tan makes photographs that are at once conceptual
explorations of our current social unease and technical forays to the medium’s
outer limits. In contrasting tones of black and white, her photographs elide
detail to suggest submerged truths; and dissipate reality to explore the
unknown.“

Noelle Katigbak Tan was born in Manila in 1969. She earned her Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree from New York University and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the
California Institute of Art. She has had solo exhibitions at Civilian Art
Projects, Project Gallery 4, and DC Arts Center in Washington; the Center for
Photography at Woodstock, NY; School 33 Art Center in Baltimore; and the
Creative Artists Agency in Beverly Hills. Her work is included in the permanent
collection of the Corcoran Museum, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and
the Creative Artists Agency.

Saturday Gallery Activities, all from 3-5pm:
Panel discussion with Noelle Katigbak Tan and Rachel Rillo - August 16
Isa Lorenzo on Collecting Photography - August 30

Visit Silverlens Gallery at 2/F YMC Bldg. 2, 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati
City, 816-0044, 0905-2650873, manage@.... Gallery hours are
Monday to Friday 10am–7 pm, Saturday 1–6pm. www.silverlensphoto.com.





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