Lupain is an ongoing series of large drawings that started in 2016. They are about analogies to lands and bodies of water that are remembered and imagined.


"Lupain" is the Filipino word for land.

 

Sky Into Stone
2024
charcoal and soft pastel on paper
59 x 100 inches
Lupain (Posoge)
2023
charcoal and soft pastel on paper
51 x 48 inches
Lupain (Ulmus Pumila)
2023
charcoal and soft pastel on paper
51 x 48 inches
Lupain
2022
charcoal and pastel on paper
60 x 102 inches
Terra Niobrara
2023
soft pastel on paper
59 x 100 inches
Salix
2018
charcoal and pastel on paper
60" x 92"
30,000 Tons
2022
charcoal and pastel on paper
60 x 102 inches
Terra Pacifica
2019
charcoal and pastel on paper
60" x 102"
Terra Puma
2019
charcoal and pastel on paper
38 x 60 inches
Salix
2021
charcoal and pastel on paper
60 x 102 inches
Terra Magnoliaceae
2022
charcoal and pastel on paper
60 x 102 inches
Populus
2022
charcoal and pastel on paper
60" x 110"
Lupain 1
2021
charcoal and pastel on paper
58 x 36 inches
Installation of solo exhibition titled Terra Madre at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico from May-August 2025
Installation of solo exhibition titled Terra Madre at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico from May-August 2025 (photo courtesy of Molly Wagoner/Zane Bennett)
Installation of solo exhibition titled Terra Madre at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico from May-August 2025 (photo courtesy of Molly Wagoner/Zane Bennett)
Installation of solo exhibition titled Terra Madre at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico from May-August 2025 (photo courtesy of Molly Wagoner/Zane Bennett)
Installation of solo exhibition titled Terra Madre at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico from May-August 2025 (photo courtesy of Molly Wagoner/Zane Bennett)
installation shot of solo exhibition "40,000 Tons" at The Mueller Gallery, Caldwell University, Caldwell, NJ February 2023
installation shot of solo exhibition "40,000 Tons" at The Mueller Gallery, Caldwell University, Caldwell, NJ February 2023
installation shot of solo exhibition "40,000 Tons" at The Mueller Gallery, Caldwell University, Caldwell, NJ February 2023
installation photo of solo exhibition titled Knowable Earth at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summer-Fall 2021
installation photo of solo exhibition titled Knowable Earth at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summer-Fall 2021
installation photo of solo exhibition titled Knowable Earth at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summer-Fall 2021
installation photo of solo exhibition titled Knowable Earth at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summer-Fall 2021
installation photo of "Lupain"(2022), part of solo exhibition "Puno" at Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ, USA Nov 2022-January 2023
installation photo of "Shrine"(2011,2022) and "Untitled"(2011), part of solo exhibition "Puno" at Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ, USA Nov 2022-January 2023
Install shot at the Montclair Art Museum, part of exhibition "Personal Landscapes" Feb - June, 2020
installation photo of solo exhibition "Puno" at Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ, USA Nov 2022-January 2023
installation photo of "Populus"(2017) and "Eagle Rock Fall"(2017), part of solo exhibition "Puno" at Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ, USA Nov 2022-January 2023
installation photo fo solo exhibition Drawing The Farthest Land at MO space in Metro Manila, Philippines, Summer 2021
installation photo fo solo exhibition Drawing The Farthest Land at MO space in Metro Manila, Philippines, Summer 2021
Install shot of works from Hawak/Hold series. Part of exhibition "Just Beneath The Surface," Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA; July-Aug 2019.
installation photo of solo exhibition "Puno" at Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ, USA Nov 2022-January 2023
Drawing Abundance - solo exhibition at West Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines, August-Sept 2018
Drawing Abundance - solo exhibition at West Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines, August-Sept 2018 (photo credit by West Gallery)
Drawing Abundance - solo exhibition at West Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines, August-Sept 2018 (photo credit by West Gallery)
Drawing Abundance - solo exhibition at West Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines, August-Sept 2018 (photo credit by West Gallery)
Installation photo of Lupain, 2022, charcoal and pastel on paper, 60 x 102 inches, in group exhibition titled Becoming Trees, curated by Fritz Horstman, at Concord Art, Concord , MA, USA, March-May 2022