Provenance: Provenance: Archivo 1984

ABOUT THE WORK

Untitled (Valencia 1) was executed in Valencia during the artist’s brief residency in that Spanish city in 2008. The painting exemplifies Gerardo Tan’s collage-based paintings that are offshoots of his collages in the early 90’s. In his collages and paintings, Tan mines and combines images from the art world with common ones, fusing abstraction with figuration and infusing new itinerant meanings to images as they are reconfigured anew. In Untitled (Valencia 1), he juxtaposed fragments from Vermeer’s iconic painting, The Lacemaker, with those of Juliao Sarmento’s, Keith Haring’s and other found images. Gerry Tan took his BFA in Painting at the University of the Philippines Diliman and MFA in Painting at the State University of New York. Tan was a CCP 13 Artists Awardee in 1988 and has participated in many local and international exhibitions such as the 1st Melbourne Biennale (1999), Bastards of Misrepresentation (Frieis Museum Berlin, 2010), Pause (4th Gwanju Biennial, 2002), xs — XL Expanding Art (Sculpture Square, Singapore, 2002) and the 2nd Asian Art Show in Fukuoka Museum (1982). His other distinctions include the Fulbright-Hays Grant at SUNY Buffalo (1990-92), the Barbara Schuller’s Art Associates Award in Buffalo, NY (1992) and the Juror’s Choice at the Art Association of the Philippines Annual Competition in 1997. His works are in the collection of the Singapore Art Museum and National Gallery Singapore.