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BALUYUT OPENS ‘JOURNEYS’ SHOW 19 AUGUST AT GALERIE JOAQUIN
To mark her own life’s journeys, Karina Baluyut is slated to open her major solo exhibit for Year 2006 at Galerie Joaquin. The show titled "Journeys" opens Saturday, August 19, 2006 will feature 30 paintings done by the artist during the past 12 months.
These current works are products of the artist’s own physical, emotional and psychological journeys. She has visited many ancient cities and capitals over the past few years such as Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Ayutthatya and Bangkok in Thailand, Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and the ancient Portugese colony of Macau.
"Journeys" synthesizes the emotions and feelings experienced by the artist during those memorable visits to those cities. Baluyut does this in her abstract renditions using the various tolls at her disposal including composition, line, tonal values and balance of color.
Galerie Joaquin Main is located at 371 P. Guevarra St. cor. Montessori Lane, Addition Hills, San Juan, Metro Manila. Tel: 7239253 or 7239418. Website: www.galeriejoaquin.com.
"Journeys" sees a more confident Baluyut who with her experiences accumulated in her own personal and emotion journeys has learned more through the years. Interestingly, today she feels that the more she paints the more she gets to learn more about herself.
One of the original members of the Guevarra Group of Artists, Karina Baluyut is an architect aside from being one of Manila’s most popular abstract artists among today’s new generation. A graduate of the prestigious University of the Philippines, she expressed an early interest in art from her grade school years. Early on, she was active in doing set design work in several theatrical productions.
Today, she is among the top best selling artists of Galerie Joaquin. Influenced by Paul Klee, Mark Rothko and other leading abstract artists, she incorporates her architecture in many of her abstract works. Among her architectural inspired paintings are: "Shears and Moments", "Post and Lintel", "Cambodian Temples", "Pyramids" and other architectural design concepts and principles.
She has participated in several group shows and her 1st one-man exhibit titled "Fields of Gold" held in 2005 was a critical and commercial success.
For her forthcoming show, her works are products of her own physical, emotional and psychological journeys. She has visited many ancient Asian cities and capitals and reflects her travels, her joys and triumphs, pains and challenges in her current paintings.
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