Glass Sculptures

Iván ARGOTE

Solo Shows


2017
Of Cubes, Triangles and Good Fortune
Ricco Renzo Gallery, LRI Design Plaza Makati City - Febraury 2017

Glimmering Illuminations
Galerie Joaquin, Podium - October 2017

Magnum Opus
Solaire Resort and Casino – March 2018

Inimitable Femme
Galerie Joaquin, UP Town Center - July 2018

Origins
Galerie Raphael, Manila Art 2019 - October 2019


Group Shows

Kaleidoscope Visions
2-Man Exhibit with painter Ombok Villamor – Galerie Raphael, Manila Art 2017

Tri-Angles
3-Man Exhibit with Metal Sculptor Ferdie Cacnio and Wood Sculptor Niccolo Jose - 2017
Art Anton, Conrad Manila

Parsing Charms
2-man exhibit with Ombok Villamor
Power Pant Mall, Rockwell Centre, Makati August 2018

Hatch Exhibit of Manila Bulletin 2018
A collaboration between Manila Bulletin and 100 selected artists
A continuing installation art project shown in important venues nationwide including the UST Museum

11th, 12th and 13th Sculpture Review, The Art Center SM Megamall

 Alay Sining 7, 8, and 9, The Atrium Greenbelt 5

OBRA – Marge Organo
Your All-Access Show on Lifestyle Network/TFC shown worldwide April 2018 to present


OUTSTANDING ACCOMPLISHMENTS / PUBLISHED WORKS:

New Innovations in Glass Sculpture
ANC Early Edition with Paolo Abrera
February 2017

Top 10 Living Filipino Sculptors
Art+ Magazine 2017

8 Notable Artists from Manila Art 2017

The Manila Project, October 2017

Heart Of Glass by: Thomas Goldsmith
Art+ Magazine October 2017

Forging Fire in a Medium as Cold as Ice
Manila Bulletin Lifestyle February 12, 2018
Hannah Jo Uy and Pinggot Zulueta

Shaper of Glass
Daily Tribune March 19, 2019
Let’s Drink to That column by Jojo Silvestre

The Art of Glass Sculpture
CNN New Day with Christine Jacob
March 17, 2019

Chink Positive Show with Chinkee Tan
September 2019

Magazine article
Metro Home & Entertaining Magazine Vol 16 Issue
November 2019

Honed her skills in New York. Lives and works in the Philippines.

A semi-retired businesswoman, an emerging artist, mother of four grown up children, a late-bloomer in the field of visual arts, she embarked on a new career as a visual artist by accident. She dabbled in all sorts of creative activities since she was a child but never thought of making a career out of it.

Took up formal lessons in drawing and sculpture using clay and cold cast resin in 2014.

First exhibit at Alay Sining, an annual nationwide sculpture exhibit organized by Rotary Club Makati West.

First works sold by Galeria de las Islas in Intramuros, Manila. Soon, she was invited in other group exhibits and as she did this more often, became bored with cold cast resin and tried her hand in bronze casting. After a few bronze pieces, she decided to take her hobby more seriously, relinquished management of her Pharmaceuticals business to her eldest son.

Accepted at the world-renowned Corning Museum of Glass (CMOG) in Corning, New York in 2015. The glass sculpture pieces that she made in CMOG, she brought home were all sold out. She has been a member of the Glass Art Society based in Seattle, Washington, USA, since 2015.

In 2016, she applied and was granted a scholarship at the same institution so she again went back to CMOG to pursue further studies of the coldworking glass sculpture technique.

On February 2017, she had her first Solo exhibition for her glass sculpture at Ricco Renzo Gallery in Makati. In the same year, she had her second solo exhibition for glass sculptures at Galerie Joaquin. They were all sold out shows.

In 2018, she was accepted at The Glassmaking School of Kamenicky Senov, Czech Republic. The oldest glassmaking school in the world located at the Crystal Valley in Czech Republic. There she learned a new technique in glass sculpture which is Glass Casting and Mold Making.

The 3rd Solo Exhibtion entitled Magnum Opus was held from March to April 2019 at the Solaire Gallery. She found the opportunity to use this new technique in the Solaire exhibit where she created a glass piano putting together all the glassmaking techniques she learned in the US and Europe.

To sharpen her skills in glass casting, she went back to CMOG in 2019 after the Solaire exhibit, taking up Lifecasting in Glass. Coming back to Manila, she had 2 more solo exhibits at Galerie Joaquin titled Inimitable Femme and the latest at Galerie Raphael Manila Art 2019 where first introduced a glass wall installation and a big glass piano.

To date, she has made several commissioned works for business establishments and private collectors’ residences and is also working on a huge glass installation project at one of the more prestigious resorts in the South.

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