BALAY KREATIVE VISUAL ARTS GRANTEES EXHIBITION 2022

Featuring artists Cherisse Alcantara and Joriz Madrid

Undiscovered SF, October 22, 12-6 PM

Free and open to the public

Location: CAST Lobby (ground floor)

447 Minna Street, San Francisco

The Balay Kreative Visual Arts Grantees 2022, Cherisse Alcantara and Joriz Madrid, will present their projects in a two-person exhibition at CAST’s lobby at 447 Minna in SOMA Pilipinas. 


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About the Artists

Cherisse Alcantara

Cherisse Alcantara (b. Philippines) is a Filipina-American painter who lives and works in San Francisco. She received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2021) and her BA Art Practice from the University of California- Berkeley (2013). Her art is a meditation on place and the need to dwell longer. While engaging with the observed world and language of painting, she conjures imaginary spaces that are anchored in the familiar and reimagines the built spaces she navigates.

She has shown locally and nationally including at Vessel Gallery (Oakland, CA), Pence Gallery (Davis, CA), Arc Gallery (San Francisco), Piedmont Center for the Arts, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Berkeley Art Center, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum. Her recent awards include the Murray Dessner Memorial Travel Award upon her MFA graduation, Jentel residency, and the Hopper Prize. She is a recipient of the 2022 Kreative Growth Grant from Balay Kreative and her project will be presented during Undiscovered SF in SOMA Pilipinas

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Joriz Madrid

Joriz is an illustrator based in San Francisco. Utilizing surrealist imagery and symbolism, he hopes to evoke a feeling of romanticism and sentimentality with the ephemeral imagery and stories that have persisted with him as someone of the diaspora.

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