Black & White - Boo Sze Yang, Ben Loong and Benny Teo

This exhibition was held from 27th October 2017 to 08th November 2017 at AC43/ Art Commune gallery at Bras Basah.

The exhibition featured Boo Sze Yang, Ben Loong, Benny Teo, Tang Da Wu, Wong Keen and Zhuang Sheng Tao.

But we shall only talk about the younger artists here.

Boo Sze Yang did more works along the style of what he did at Ipreciation, the monochromatic, architectural and landscape type of works. Nice and interesting.

Ben Loong did more of the plaster and resin works with a touch of gold leaf. He definitely is improving as compared to the early works at VADA show at Geylang. His control of the plaster is much better.

Benny Teo did more of his abstract paintings but with out colour and in different hues of black. Interesting works but need to do something more contemporary or fresh to prevent being compared to those who have come before.

Points for collectors: Boo Sze Yang - Buy rating. Ben Loong - Buy rating. We would get their works. Benny Teo - Neutral. Have to wait and see what else he does. 

Colors of Comple-X-city - Danya Yu

This exhibition was held from 26th October to 30th October 2017 over at the Visual Arts Centre at Dhoby Ghaut.

Danya presented some old but mainly new paintings. She also showed some of her trial pieces phase 1 and phase 2.

She definitely does nice work. She's definitely improving and doing nice works. Phase II had a more contemporary treatment done to it whereas phase I has gone more towards an 'older / modern art' feel.

Phase 2 on the left

Points for collectors: Buy / Strong buy. She's very motivated and passionate about her works. And in this exhibition, she did quite well in terms of sales. But we at 75GOP prefer works with a more contemporary feel , so if she does more of Phase II or gives her works a more contemporary feel we will definitely buy too.

80by80 at Esplanade

This exhibition is held from 13 October 2017 to 3rd January 2018 over at the underground tunnel next to the carpark at Esplanade.

The exhibition is in conjunction with the 15th year of Esplanade. And 38 Singapore artists who have worked with them over these years were asked to come out with 80 by 80 cm works from which proceeds from the online auction will go towards their programmes.

You can check out the artists featured on their website at 80by80.esplanade.com .

Anyway a few pieces that we like.

Wang Ruobing

Yeo Shih Yun

Chua Boon Kee

Teo Huey Ling

Victor Tan

All works are on online auction till 19th November 2017. Amounts above the reserve price/ starting bid price are tax deductible (FYI). Happy Bidding and Good Luck!

Uncertain Discoveries - Danielle Tay

This exhibition is held from 12th October 2017 to 5th November 2017 over at Chan+Hori Contemporary at Gillman Barracks.

Danielle Tay graduated from UK, Slade School of Fine Arts, thus you can see her works are different from the LaSalle School or the NAFA school. She did paper cutouts which she painted herself and assembled it back to form the image. She did some big and some small works. There was a piece which used wood and was hanging in the office. Really interesting and nice works. (yes and we mean it). Her works have improved and the works are more detailed and the 'visual perception' aspect of the works are more mature. Very Good.

Our favourite works are the 3 in the centre, got into the Artwork of the Month feature.

Points for Collectors: Buy to Strong Buy. We at 75GOP like her works. And the price isn't expensive, $800 to $3500. Works and pricelist available on Artsy.Very glad she and the gallery kept a level head and kept the price reasonable.

Portable Art Week - Ipreciation

This exhibition is currently going on from 12th October to the 21st October 2017 over at Ipreciation at the Hard Rock Cafe building.

It features affordable works, but is mainly a recap of what they have shown over the past year. The only two artists which I think are new are Benny Teo and Yang ZhongDa.

Interesting works if you missed some of their earlier exhibitions and need a catch up.