AUGUST LYLE ESPINO:

SIRKOPATH

August Lyle Espino’s “Sirkopath” highlights works that the artist has produced while in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic.  The artist combines representational and abstract forms in producing images that reel in from Espino’s subconscious mind. The exhibition surveys the mutation of these images through Espino’s artistic process that often commence in a sketch or contour of life forms.  Hence, the artist’s exploration into abstraction intervenes with the composition. The visible shapes and bodies shift to become fragments of new embodiments. This results in a collection of works that appear colorful and festive but once the viewer steps closer to the canvas, a melancholic mood would surface.

Espino’s background in film influences his works that somehow points at certain dominating elements as characters that develop through the evolving narratives presented through abstract structures and dispositions.  Similar to film, a sequence of scenes is drawn and painted into the canvas. However, Espino manipulates the mise en scene to reveal the non-linear accounts of changes in the characters he depicts.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

August Lyle Espino studied Fine Arts and holds a Masters Degree in Entrepreneurship. His practice explores painting as a medium to transform images and produce stories through layers of scenarios from representational and abstract forms. His background as a filmmaker allows him to use similar techniques and plot devices in forming compositions that reveal unexpected stories and scenarios. “Sirkopath” is his first solo exhibition.