The Drawing Room’s governing aesthetic illustrates an idiosyncratic taming of creative energies, one that is alternately welcome and troubling for the devout anarchist but instructive as an exercise in still largely congenial negotiation between structured and unautocratic creative tension. This modest sampling of work from seventeen Filipino artists reveals a level of visuality extracted from a spectrum of art persuasions tempered in The Drawing Room’s various spaces.

Excerpt from Drawing Space, Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez