Brown Man's Burden: Selected works from the Babilonia Wilner Collection.

Aimee Le Duc at Urban View
"Just as the Filipino consciousness is far more than one thing or another, the artwork in BROWN MAN'S BURDEN thrives on multiple levels. The work assaults the foundations of global hegemony but still preserves the tender and comedic nature of a thriving people. It is an exhibit that is worth the attention and effort."
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Manuel Ocampo, Free Aesthetic Pleasure Now

Glen Helfand at 7x7 Magazine
"My new work is like Pokémon meets van Gogh," he chuckles. "For me it's new territory, more formal and more playful. I know it's a cliché, but having a kid humbles you."
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Jack Fisher at San Jose Mercury News
"An exhibit of Manuel Ocampo's new paintings at Babilonia 1808 in Berkeley finds the artist happily placing himself between an aesthetic rock and a hard place in what seems to be an attempt find a new way forward."
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Zero Magazine
"Though I've just glossed the surface of the wonders of Manuel Ocampo's work, this show is definitely a must see for anyone interested in challenging and provocative art."
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M. Moniot at SF Gate:
"Listen up, culture vultures and critics! Painting is not dead, as you have previously decreed. In fact, it's alive and jam-packed in an old Victorian house in Berkeley..."
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Georganne Deen, The Secret Storm &
The Vogue Book of the Dead

M. Moniot at SF Gate:
"LA-based artist Georganne Deen does not tiptoe around
dark emotions. The Secret Storm is a collection of drawings
and paintings that presents grotesque fairy-tale-like figures and
thought-provoking text, creating nightmarish worlds of suffering…
The Vogue Book of the Dead… presents a more light-hearted
vision. It takes on the fashion world by adding actual couture labels
from giants like Pucci to strange, cartoonish pseudo-fashion ads."
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Circos Globulos: Selected Works from
the Babilonia Wilner Collection

Jade Afable at Reviewwest.com:
"Six artists and seven works comprise this ambitious exhibition
featuring selected works from the Babilonia Wilner Collection.
That its curatorial concept is well-manifested is a credit to Exhibition
Program Director Sherry Apostol, Gallery Manager Rhea Fontaine
as well as environmentalist and cultural advocate Malou Babilonia
whose passion and personal history… influenced the exhibit.…
Babilonia's hoped-for effect may be similar to how a traveling circus
opens the eyes of those in locales who have never traveled before
beyond the borders of their hometowns. Their curatorial program
reminds that Art is universal and should be for everyone in the world,
not just the other type of circus known as the artworld."
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Kenji Yanobe, Atom Boy Returns
to Save the World!?

Mark Van Proyen in Art Issues, March/April 2001
"As is the case with other forms of anxiety-driven postmodern nostalgia, both the art and the shrill manifestos of the industrial sublime shout loudly, even as they contain little though about the larger implications of what they are shouting about. At the onset of a new year in a still new century, northern California has been treated to three provocative exhibitions that seek intelligently redress this particular dirth of thought."
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Kenneth Baker in The San Francisco Chronicle:
"Hopes persist that injections of Silicon Valley wealth
may revive a Bay Area art scene grown anemic from
it's life's blood rushing to its overhead. A new Berkeley
venue, Babilonia 1808, sets the example."
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Kristianna Bertelsen in The East Bay Express:
"While Yanobe's "Atom Boy Returns to Save the
World" is a premonition of destruction and grim
survival, it is also an indicator that Babilonia's
exhibits will address large-scale visions."
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Lindsey Westbrook in The Bay Guardian:
"Art can be fun and games for Kenji Yanobe, but
it is also a matter of life and death. For the
last five years he has been hard at work designing
post-apocalyptic survival gear, elevating it to the
level of conceptual art."
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