ULY VELOSO
Ulysses Veloso is a graduate of the University of the Philippines Diliman with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree major in Sculpture and presently pursuing graduate studies under the UP Master of Fine Arts Program. He has mounted 14 major solo shows and 15 group exhibitions in major museums, galleries, and alternative art spaces in the Philippines. He has a long list of commissioned works both in the local and international art market.
Veloso has worked on representational and non-representational forms in his past exhibits using a wide range of materials from the traditional to the industrial. He is currently using stainless steel, copper, brass and bronze in his sculptures.
Veloso’s passion to create art is seen in the way he manipulates three-dimensional form to produce small and large scale works that are dynamic, transformative and experiential. He explores the possibilities of sculptural materials from its visual quality to meaning and weaves into it his ideas and experiences to form a work of art that is truly reflective of his artistic sensibilities. Every work of art is an articulation of Veloso’s mastery of the formal elements, technical brilliance and zest for art and life.
His present engagement with art discourses in the academe has led him to locate his art in another dimension as material, technique and thematic choices are transformed into varying contexts which foreground not only aesthetic experience but also as a critical agency of art theories and current art practices. Veloso’s art now may tread into the abstract realm of artistic philosophy but his articulation is one that is not elitist and intimidating to the audience.
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