Locals Only! 2018

This exhibition is held from 19th April to 3rd May 2018 over at Taksu Gallery at Holland Village.

This exhibition features Alpana Vij, Bryan Tan, Jamie Tan, Joanne Pang, JOE, Justin Lim, Keith Teo, Rifqi Amirul Rosli and Nicholas Ong.

Alpana Vij showed her abstract works. Was interesting but we saw her threading of leaves with gold string during the East Side Open Studios open house. Those were much more interesting. Should be more interesting when she shows those.

Bryan Tan showed more of his paper origami works. Interesting but nothing more interesting then what was shown previously.

Jamie Tan showed more of his colour field works of concentric rectangles. More asymmetrical than last year. But ok. Nice and pretty but ok.

Joanne Pang did ink on paper works. Interesting. Would be good to follow and see how she develops the works.

JOE was a collaboration of 2 artists. Did some semi-figurative works worked over with some abstract strokes to add expression to the works. Ok works. Keith Teo was better.

Justin Lim showed more of his reveries series. He won the Impart award and was given the blessing of Jackson See. However, he has produced too many of the Reverie series. Singapore has only so many galleries and we are seeing it all around. Angry.

Keith Teo did some semi-figurative works like Joe and worked over to give it more expression and dynamism. Put beside JOE's work, his works stand out more. He also showed some abstract works. They were good and he has good control of his colour palette.

Nicholas Ong showed abstract works. Was ok. But Keith was better.

Rifqi Amirul showed works that have been shown before. Some drawings, collages and prints. Think most were shown at Nanyi Sunyi.

Alpana Vij

Rifqi Amirul

Keith Teo

Nicholas Ong

Justin Lim

Joanne Pang

Joanne Pang

JOE

Bryan Tan

Jamie Tan

Keith Teo

Points for Collectors: Keith Teo buy rating. Justin Lim can give a buy but need to see him managing his brand and production output. Alpana Vij, Joanne Pang and Rifqi does nice works and can continue watching. Nicholas Ong, Jamie Tan, Bryan Tan and JOE - continue watching.

The Luckier by Allison Low

This exhibition was held from 29th March to 13th May 2018 at K+ gallery.

In this exhibition Allison showed some new works. The works are getting more elements and she is also painting the background to give it a colour.  She is definitely improving. The works are getting better. The elements in the works work better with each other. Think the next thing for her to work on is to get the works more filled and complex and making it all work together with dynamism and depth.

Points for collectors: Allison Low - buy rating. But the works at K plus were expensive although she managed to sell a few.

Unicorn Tears - Cassandra Koh

This exhibition is held from 5th April to 10th May 2018 over at the walkway between Peninsula Plaza and Excelsior Shopping Arcade. It's on the third floor walkway, the same floor as Personality Menshop.

It is part of the Islands@Peninsula series. Previous artists include Fyerool Darma and Ben Loong.

Anyway she showed interested paintings and works. Like her style and what she is doing. Her works were all collected during the VADA show.

She has been featured here before in another exhibition.

Points for collectors: Cassandra Koh has a nice bright palette. And the works are a bit unusual. She gets a buy rating. Now just waiting for her to work with a mainstream gallery. 

Departure 3 - Various artists

This exhibition was held from 23rd March to 7th April 2018 over at Ipreciation.

It was the 3rd in the series of Milenko hand picking some of his old students to show with him.

This show featured Jodi Tan, Faris Nakamura, Tan Wee Lit, Leow Wei Li and Zero (Zul Othman).

Jodi Tan showed more of her abstract works of groups. She did slightly larger works for this show. Really good works. Love her works.

Tan Wee Lit showed a sculpture. Not sure about it.

Leow Wei Li should some abstract paintings to do with sound. Something she did in her residency, which I think was in Japan. Interesting concept. Not very fresh. And visually not interesting. But it's a departure from her structured works.

Faris Nakamura showed more of his sculptural works. Similar to those at AAF and Vada. Interesting but still more of the same.

Zero showed a conceptually interesting work, where he cut out a layer of street art work from *Scape. It was thick and made of many layers of paint representing the many works which had been painted over one another repeatedly. He showed one piece in its original form and hung from a frame. The rest was incorporated into a sculpture made with concrete and the cut out paint. Interesting and conceptually interesting work but the end result wasn't visually that pleasing.

Points for collectors: Jodi Tan - Strong buy. Zero has been recognised with the young talent award and his works have taken a more intellectual approach and not so angsty. Partly due to his completion of his MFA and the award. He needs to do more research and documentation to the work and make it more visually pleasing. So a neutral rating for him for now. But definitely can watch. Leow Wei Li - this series is a hold. The same for Faris. Need to see how the two develop. Tan Wee Lit - not sure. Not enough to assess him.

Hello Everybody!

Have been slacking again!

Will try to keep up with the posts.

Attended quite a few things but won't write about all.

Have been too lazy to attend everything also.

So bear with me!

 Thanks!