Taksu has been doing Locals Only editions for their Malaysian and Indonesian galleries. This is the first time that they are doing Locals Only for Singapore.
The featured Artists are Ong Lijie, Deborah Loh, Aiman Hakim, Chen ShiTong, Jerry Yeo, Dzaki Sarafuan, Allison Low and Miguel Chew.
Miguel Chew is a lecturer at NAFA and also the 'headliner' and curator of the show. He is a print maker and presented a SilkScreen of an 'x-ray of a Uzi'. Interesting. Must say he is a skilled print maker.
Dzaki Sarafuan did a paper cut. He is primarily a print maker. Interesting work which shows his skill. But not stellar or eye catching.
Ong Lijie did etchings. She is also another print maker. Ok only from these works.
Deborah Loh presented 5 new paintings from her new series, The other Domino effect, and also 3 older paintings from her school days, Coldplay is Damien Hirst is me. The older works showed her to be very raw and subjects not mature yet. But with the new series, she has definitely improved leap and bounds. Very good artist with lots of potential. Now she has to improve and work hard.
Aiman Hakim is relatively older and has been showing previously with Utterly Art. But he has been under the radar. He presented a circular painting from his Toy Story 2 series and 3 small figurines/sculptures from his unicorn series. The sculptures I say are quite nice. The painting wasn't that good. The one that he showed with ChanHampe Gallery's ' Fresh Takes' exhibition last year from the same series was much better.
Chen Shitong presented some works which were from the same series that was shown at Galerie Steph last year. I still think the same thing, a la Tay Bak Chiang.
Jerry Yeo presented images carved into the underside of the skateboard decks. So-so only.
Allison Low presented 3 drawings, 2 of which were shown at Scout earlier this year. Allison is skilful and good. She has to keep at it and keep on practising and finding solutions. Her faces and figures are really good. Her furniture not quite there yet. Subject matter is interesting.
Allison's works
Allison's works
Aiman Hakim
Deborah Loh
Deborah Loh
Deborah Loh
Points for collectors: Buy Ratings for Deborah Loh and Allison Low. Miguel Chew - not sure, haven't seen his other works or activity level. Aiman Hakim, think he's 32 now, but not really in the mainstream gallery circuit and is also priced a bit higher, so it's a neutral rating now. The rest can give a miss for now.
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