Patrick Cruz: Titig Kayumanggi (Brown Gaze)

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Patrick Cruz, "External Packaging," 2017

digital collage

 Opening Reception: Thursday, April 13 | 8-11pm

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the launch of our spring program with two solo exhibitions by award winning Filipino-Canadian artist, Patrick Cruz and beloved Winnipeg artist Ray Fenwick. This marks Fenwick’s first solo exhibition in a public art institution and Cruz’s first major exhibition in Winnipeg. Both artists will transform one of Plug In’s galleries into immersive environments.

On Saturday, April 15, Patrick Cruz will give an exhibition tour in Tagalog at 2pm, followed by an artist talk in English at 3pm.

^{Patrick Cruz, External Packaging, 2017. Digital collage.}

Patrick CruzTitig Kayumanggi (Brown Gaze)April 13 to June 04, 2017

Marking his first solo exhibition in Winnipeg, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to present Titig Kayumanggi (Brown Gaze) by Patrick Cruz who is known for his bold gestural style, bright colors and immersive spaces.

For this exhibition at Plug In ICA, animated patterned paintings line the walls and floor of our street front gallery, enveloping the space and its visitors. A personal history of immigration from the Philippines to Canada is a story traced on the surface of Cruz’s canvasses, made visible through the accumulation of line, colour and gesture, stacked and amassed into an immersive installation. Titig Kayumanggi (Brown Gaze) is the artist’s gaze – his perspective stylistically melded into a densely cluttered and unified world of painted lines and bold colours, collaged videos, and stacked objects.

Patrick Cruz is a Filipino-Canadian multidisciplinary artist known for his immersive painting, vibrant colour pallet, assemblage installation style and gestural lines. Influenced by his personal experience of migration to Canada in 2005, Cruz harvests the detritus of capitalist society as actor and point of reflection on globalization, displacement and migration. In 2015, Cruz won the 17th Annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition. He has shown across North America, Europe and Asia with recent exhibitions at Projet Pangee, Montreal; Centre A, Vancouver; Project 20, Quezon City, Philippines; and Multiplex, Portland. His work can be seen currently at the Art Gallery of Alberta, and was presented in 2016 at the Mexico Material Art Fair. In addition to his solo work, Cruz has collaborated on numerous occasions including screenings and performances. His work has been collected by the RBC, TD Bank, and private collectors in Manila, Hongkong, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Florida.

Related Programing:Thursday, April 13 | 8 — 11pm Opening ReceptionSaturday, April 15 | 2pm Tagalog eksibisyon tour ni Tagalog Exhibition Tour with Patrick Cruz Saturday, April 15 | 3pm Artist Talk and Exhibition Tourwith Patrick CruzThursday, April 20 | 7pm Performance by Casey Mecija