BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA – Togonon Gallery will feature a ten year retrospective of Bay Area Artist, Terry Acebo Davis on view from September 6 – 27, 2003 at Babilonia 1808 -1808 Fifth Street, off University Avenue.
Commenting on her art Acebo Davis explains “I draw upon my identity as a woman of Filipina-American extraction influenced by Euro-American contemporary thought as inspiration for my work.” Distinct colors such as vermillion reds, yellow ochres and lamp blacks; and symbols such as crosses, numbers, foreign words, grids and maps are used consistently throughout her art series. “Whether it be realized in the form of an intimate work on paper or in a room sized tableaux, the multidisciplinary works of Terry Acebo Davis always challenge their viewers to look and think deeply.” states Mark Van Proyen, noted Art Critic in the introduction to her catalog.
With advanced degrees in both Fine Arts and Health
Care, Acebo Davis has traveled extensively and has found ways to combine
her careers with creative discipline. Last year she completed a three
site multi-media installation and short documentary film tracing immigration
through the eyes of the Filipino Healthcare Workers and the Filipino War
Veterans of WWII. For this and her graphic works she was recently awarded
the Arts Council of Silicon Valley Fellowship, these works are currently
on display at the Triton Museum in Santa Clara. Her other awards include
the James Phelan Award for Printmaking, a Community Foundation of Silicon
Valley Grant, Fellowship at the Kala Institute in Berkeley and the Radius
Award from the City of Palo Alto. For the past six years Acebo Davis has
also traveled to Belgium to work as an Artist in Residence at the Masereel
Center working in traditional printmaking media: stone lithographs and
serigraphs. Acebo Davis has exhibited her work in Germany, Belgium, the
Philippines and throughout the United States and Hawaii; and she has lectured
to audiences at home and abroad about the state of Filipino American Contemporary
Art.
Exhibition: Diwata: Works by Terry Acebo
Davis
When: September 6 – 27, 2003
Receptions for the Artist: Opening - Saturday, September 6th 5-8
pm
Artist Talk - Saturday September 13th 4pm
Where: Togonon Gallery at Babilonia 1808
1808 Fifth Street, Berkeley, California
94710 Ph 510.549.1808
Gallery Hours: Thursday – Saturday 12 – 6 pm
For more information or to arrange an interview
with the Artist contact:
Julina E. Togonon, Gallery Director 415.291.9255
Togonon Gallery exhibits artists of local and international acclaim in traditional media: painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing and in new genre works: installation, film and mixed media. Established in 1994, the gallery is dedicated to represent art that challenges the boundaries and definitions of culture and identity. The gallery, a member of the San Francisco Art Dealers Association will reopen in its new San Francisco location in 2004.