ABOUT THE WORK

From 1974 to 1979, Joya did work in a variety of forms, acrylic collages, figures sketches, oil paintings and ceramic designs. Jose Joya’s art is an intriguing comination of influences naive yet sophisticated, uneducated yet intelligent, modest yet confident. His work is ni formed by a keen awareness of social issues, and an astute reading of Filipino folk art and traditions. Here, the two countrywomen are almost literally ‘swirling’ as one, an apparent effect of his dynamic New York school sensibility even in genre themes