About Manny Garibay
Manny Garibay is one of the most critically acclaimed Filipino artists today.  Amanda Watson of the South China Morning Post once wrote that "(h)is works include strong expressions of Filipino spirituality and (he) rejects colonial religious models which he feels create an identity crisis that prevents his people from assessing their situation from their own perspective." more >

About Angelo Suarez
Angelo V. Suarez, 23, advocates collaborative verbo-visual performance and intermedia poetics.  He recently co-authored the typographic project "Dissonant Umbrellas: Notes Toward a Gesamtkunstwerk" with nine visual artists. more >

About Crux
Image and word compose a universe both familiar and strange in "Crux," described by its organizer, CANVAS, as an "exposition of paintings and poems," at the Ayala Museum starting Oct. 18. The word denotes the large-scale exhibit of Emmanuel Garibay's paintings (some 20 works, which is quite big for a new show) while connoting the strategy of the verses by young poet Angelo Suarez that complement the canvases, the poetry being an expounding or explanation of the issues posed by the paintings. more >