In The Next Lifetime, We Will Meet Again
TAMMY DE ROCA
December 8, 2021 - January 6, 2022
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tammy De Roca (b.1995, Manila) is a visual artist whose works explore how textures build images through paintings, sculptures, and other forms. De Roca continues to study and experiment on how our perception of appearances and images are challenged or supported by what textures represent.
She completed her BFA at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. De Roca represented the city of Pasay for the Miss Earth Philippines Pageant in 2017. She cites Elaine Navas and Mark Rothko as recent influences and such is clear in her latest works especially in terms of texture and flow.
The exhibition In The Next Lifetime, We Will Meet Again presents images that act as postcards to her late grandfather whose birthday incidentally falls on the same day of the show’s opening. The places depicted in these works reside in the artist’s mind and are places where she can reconnect with her loved ones. Continuing her series of landscapes and seascapes formed through textures; an experiment in art-making that challenges our perception of appearances.
Selected works from In The Next Lifetime, We Will Meet Again
Tammy De Roca, To Own What Was Lost, 2021, Acrylic mixed media on canvas, 24 x 36 in (60.96 x 91.44 cm)
Tammy De Roca, And Enough, 2021, Acrylic mixed media on canvas, 10.16 x 25.4 in (25.80 x 64.51 cm)
Tammy De Roca, And I Hope This Is The Ending We Were Hoping For, 2021, Acrylic mixed media on canvas, 10.16 x 25.4 in (25.80 x 64.51 cm)
Tammy De Roca, To Be Sent III, 2021 Acrylic mixed media on canvas 5 x 7 in (12.7 x 17.78 cm)
Tammy De Roca, To Be Sent II, 2021 Acrylic mixed media on canvas 5 x 7 in (12.7 x 17.78 cm)
Tammy De Roca, To Be Sent IV, 2021 Acrylic mixed media on canvas 5 x 7 in (12.7 x 17.78 cm)
Tammy De Roca, To Be Sent I, 2021 Acrylic mixed media on canvas 5 x 7 in (12.7 x 17.78 cm)
Tammy De Roca, We Will Grow From Where We Left Off, 2021, Acrylic mixed media on canvas, 36 x 24 in (91.44 x 60.96 cm)
Tammy De Roca, The Heaviness of Being Here, 2021, Acrylic mixed media on canvas, 36 x 24 in (91.44 x 60.96 cm)