Meeting of Styles | Truth is Light

Meeting of Styles has been in a two-year hiatus during the pandemic. But with everything slowly going back to how it was before, the event as most known in the urban culture scenes is finally making it happen. There was a huge turnout at the parking grounds of Anonas in Quezon City, where the event happened. The gathering of the most talented visual artists that featured the young upstarts and the well-established ones converged to show up and paint their passionate artistic desires as MOS in the Philippines’ last day though it rained was a success.

Secret Fresh + Jade Suayan | Warped Heads

The local art exhibitions are slowly opening and bringing back visitors to their art galleries. Secret Fresh is back and is opening a line-up that includes the return of Jade Suayan with her second solo art show titled “Warped Heads,” which features some of the head characters she has put together that are either distorted or… ‘Warped.’ Jade’s second go around having her sophomore exhibition is not as extravagant or taking up space of one of the gallery sections. Still, it is poignant to relate how post-pandemic must be for artists to take inspiration and how the world appears to be warped in all the things happening in the last two years.

Secret Fresh + Jade Suayan | Walls Could Talk

01.20.2020 – Secret Fresh and its featured artist Jade Suayan has a huge turnout this past Sunday as her first solo show has launched entitled “Walls Could Talk” featuring eight colourful and impressive art pieces that also includes one bicycle installation that makes the Gallery B look like it has transported you to another realm. The purple dominated gallery that features all of Jade Suayan’s neon colored creations dominated this side of Secret Fresh that feels like you’re transported from her perspective of how this world exist and the setup is certainly one of the best yet for this first time solo art show that also looks like from an animated universe.

POST Gallery | PSP X Anniversary

09.11.2016 – The street art community has never been this known if not for its creative way promoting the culture like the Pilipinas Street Plan can accomplish. For ten years they have been cultivating talent through grass roots and inspiring others. The journey continues with their tenth anniversary celebration at the POST gallery in Cubao X that began with Pablo gallery early in July of this year.

Walkway Visions: Elevated Street Art!

06.01.2014 – Walkways are rare routes you’ll find in the city, and the only place you can see it is in the back streets of Makati Central Business District. It’s those interconnecting elevated pathways that stretch along Legazpi Street. The elevated walkways back then was slowly being built connecting buildings and car parks into one route. These days several establishments started to open along the way and lights are no longer dim, which give you a nice view of the elevated street as an alternative route instead of taking the usual walk along Ayala Avenue…

Tunnel Visions: Mural Art Underpass Featured!

05.24.2014 – For the past week two of Makati City’s Central Business District Underpass had a makeover. The first one was at the Makati Avenue Underpass, where you can immediately see the mural art done by Pilipinas Street Plan and Cavity Collective. The next one is the oldest tunnel, which is Legazpi Underpass connecting with Ayala Avenue that was built in 1995. This is by far designed ahead of its time and the mural art can be found in the ceiling for some break neck art appreciations. It’s the same crew who made the paintings that few notice to appreciate but that changed last night…

Tunnel Visions: Ayala Underpass Mural Art Makeover!

05.21.2014 – It was raining on a Wednesday night past 10 PM you pass by the oldest underpass in Makati’s Central Business District. You thought it was a museum or an art gallery, but it’s actually just an underpass that had its most recent makeover. The talented individuals of graphic artists who where tasked to paint the ceilings and walls of the city’s underpass is at it again. If you missed the one connecting intersection of Ayala and Makati Avenue this one can’t be missed. The ceiling is so wide its enough to really catch your attention all that vibrant colors put together.

The Tunnel Vision of Great Mural Art!

05.15.2014 – Whenever there’s art or painting some would take for granted not appreciating once work. There are other forms of art that get’s an immediate attention like the local comic books that has its writers and artists. But when it comes to graffiti or street art some might think it’s a form of vandalism. There are many forms of art and you can differentiate them immediately from an actual vandalism. Take an example by this group of young artists painting the white canvass walls of Makati City’s underpass that is getting a new fresh perspective.

Secret Fresh at the World BEX 2014!

03.16.2014 – Street art invades the 19th World Building Expo at the World Trade Center in Pasay City. The live art was conducted by Secret Fresh and its talented graffiti artists during the first day of the event last March 12, 2014. The live art featured six artists who also have their works featured at Secret Fresh. The art works where work-in-progress during the first day. The finish product is as stunning as its presentation and this is the second time Secret Fresh has a booth at World BEX…

Converse Wall To Wall: Chad Manzo!

11.09.2013 – When you talk about graffiti before it was known for random form of vandalism. But these days it’s more diverse with some getting into street art. In countries like Korea they have the Wall Painting Village located at Dongpirang province of Tongyeong city. It’s a place where they rehabilitated fill of street art that changed a small village into a place of great culture.

HERAKUT in Manila: Post Live Art Coverage!

08.10.2013 – If you missed another live session with HERAKUT at the Bridge Way in Fully Booked then don’t miss out what would happen today. Yesterday was just a live art session with the amazing duo who painted a large mural in the side of the Book design section and that’s what you call great wall of art. The session lasted for more than hours where the artists interacted with the audience who witness them go to work. The two German artists is enjoying their first time stay in Manila over the week checking out Philippine culture.

Fully Booked + Vinyl on Vinyl: HERAKUT!

08.08.2013 – HERAKUT is now in Manila brought to you by Fully Booked and Vinyl on Vinyl. They are composed of two street artists Jasmin Siddiqui, or "Hera," and Falk Lehman, "Akut," specializing in murals. They call themselves graffiti artists for their urban lifestyle, but most of their work is commissioned and has released several art books that tell their collaborated works. They have been painting the design bridge way section of the bookstore.