Get to know us
Passion and Purpose
We started out as a group of longtime friends with a common desire to get back to what we love doing. We wanted to set an alternative avenue for artists to pursue what they feel and believe in, no other conditions.
Today we continue to build on that calling and strive for excellence in every art that we create.
Untitled by Eric David Colored pen on paper 2023
Guiding Light by Alvin Dennis Cristobal Watercolour on paper 2023
Guiding Light
Our art is what defines our uniqueness. We firmly believe in persisting along the paths our passions guide us, finding a shared bond in this fundamental desire despite expressing it through diverse styles and mediums.
At the core of our collective vision is a commitment to art excellence, serving as our guiding light. We extend an invitation, hoping that you can join us on this enriching journey.
Alvin Dennis Cristobal is a highly productive artist with proficiency in various mediums and adaptable styles. His professional pursuits encompass painting, music, photography, and graphic artistry. In the realm of painting, he displays versatility through realism, social realism, surrealism, and contemporary art. As an advocate for the arts, he leads art workshops, recognizing their significant impact on legacy and viewing them as a form of social sculpture.
Additional information:
● Pursued his studies at the University of Santo Tomas
● Arranger and co producer of Hot Black Kape
● Former member of Kalye Collective
● Active member of Urban Sketcher Manila
● Groupshows(Tin-awGallery,NinevehArtSpace,EskinitaArtFarm)
Eric David, is a Visual Artist renowned for his unique style cultivated through extensive creative exploration in Australia, the USA, and Europe. His artistic expression draws inspiration from a myriad of influences, ranging from the boundless possibilities of consumerism to diverse cultural phenomena such as pop culture, atomic and space age aesthetics, cartoons, comics, Japanese graphic design, vintage toys, fashion, rock music, and commercial art. Among all these influences he mad hie mark in fashion. One of his most successful exhibits was his Fashion Victims Chapter 3, Manila Art Tour where it pays tribute to all players in the fashion scene, from the designers who create the garments and to the artisans who accessorize them.
Additional Information:
● Holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Advertising from University of Santo Tomas.
● Member of the Tuesday Group
● Exhibited his paintings, drawings, photographs and multimedia work in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Sydney, Wellington, Nagoya and Manila.
● Held two world tours named “Wreckless Worldwide Wonder Art Tour” and “Pop Rock Fashion Robots and the Army of Love” which consisted of photographs, drawings, wearable art, and sculptural installations.
Mentis Maris is a visual artist and a writer. Her artistic executions of intricate elements and colors creating a dreamlike visual is also evocative of her love for the written word and without a doubt describe that the art of Maris is an elaborate, gripping visual poetry. It explores the beauty and complexity of the inner world. Highly intricate, colorful, symbolic, and beautifully complicated, each creation highlights the fascinating details of a memory, event, recurring emotion, perception, vision, or state of mind.
Additional Information:
● Holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Advertising from the University of Santo Tomas.
● One of the artists who exhibited at the Bibliotheek in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2019
Benedicto Modesto started his journey as a visual artist early on in life earning accolades and awards during his student years in prestigious national art competitions held by Metrobank and PLDT. His career in art was temporarily put on hold as he embarked on academic endeavors and building his own multimedia company after graduation. An early adapter of digital art, he was instrumental in the development of the Multimedia Arts Course of Asia Pacific College serving as the school’s industry partner in the field, when Web 2.0 is at its nascent. Lately, he resumed his visual artistic pursuit by participating actively again in the art scene bridging this time his traditional training in visual arts to its future in the digital world as NFT Art. Always innovative at heart, continuously searching for new ways to express his art, pushing his expressions to the extreme, uniting technology and art, Modesto passionately pursues pure artistic expression, continually refining his strokes and adapting it to the evolving landscape of fine art in the new era.
Additional Information:
● Recipient of University of Santo Tomas Gantimpala ng Kahusayan (Award of Excellence)
● Major Awards in both PLDT (1996) and Metrobank (2001) National Competitions
● Creative Director and Founder of MindTap Studios
● Former industry partner-consultant of Asia Pacific College
● Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from the Philippine Women’s University (PWU)