Beejay Esber

Malabon-based Esber graduated Fine Arts major in Advertising at the Technological University of the Philippines (2005), and is known for his canvases that have been described as “eclectic and phantasmagoric abstraction,” making use of myriad colors the visual spectrum, from somber shades to neon bright hues.

In another dimension to his abstract pieces by incorporating found materials—cardboards, stickers, holograms, and glittery paper. The solemnity (and purity) of the abstract form is undermined by Esber’s inclusion of common school and hobby materials inside the frame. Their combination with his similarly cartoonish and candy-coated acrylic paintings provides a light moment against the difficult nature of abstraction, and is a fresh outlook on the possibilities of painting and its relationship with the surface material.

Along with his appetite for album covers, psychedelia, science fiction (robots, ufo’s and analog synthesizer sounds), comics and wasteland/post apocalyptic movies. Esber’s paintings would resemble cerebral fragments of contemporary society in abstract expressionist form.

Solo Exhibitions
2011 Deoxymetrical Thunderbolt Autopsy, Light and Space Contemporary, Quezon City
2012 We’re Now Floating In Narrowed Space, Secret Fresh Gallery, Ronac Art Center, San juan City 2014 What You See Is Not Everything, West Gallery, Quezon City
2015 Angler, Undergroud Gallery, Makati City
2016 Circle Intersection Algorithm, West Gallery, Quezon City
2016 Prolonged On One End Rather Than The Other, Undergroud Gallery, Makati City
2017 The Life Cycle Of Images, Art Fair Philippines Underground gallery booth, The Link, Makati City 2017 Default, West Gallery, Quezon City
2018 Speck of Dust, Finale Art File, Makati City

Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 Wall Paper, Big Sky Mind, E Rodrigez Cubao Quezon City
2006 Palimos ng Hiyas sa Pusod ng Kalawakan, Big and Small Gallery, SM Mega Mall, Mandaluyong City
2007 Return Nostalgia, Big and Small Gallery, SM Mega Mall, Mandaluyong City
2008 Leash, White Box Gallery Cubao X, Quezon City
2009 Unhappily Ever After, Blanc Compound Shaw blvd. Mandaluyong City
Magnum Asupre Blue Wings Art Space, Quezon City
2010 Wall drawings, White Space Manila Contemporary
2011 Dia de los Muertos, Secret Fresh San Juan
Boycotter of Beauty and the Theoretical Steroid Defiled Modernist Chicken, West Gallery, Quezon City
2012 This Was Not a Success, Secret Fresh, San Juan City
Modified Either No In or Out, Pablo X, Makati City
2014 Works on Paper, West Gallery, Quezon City
2015 Muscle Memory Amnesia, West Gallery, Quezon City
Melted City 3, Blanc Gallery
Light a Fire, Underground Gallery
2016 Brown Dada, Vinyl on Vinyl, Makati City
Melted City 4, Blanc Gallery
Art Fair Philippines 2016, Taksu(sg) Booth, The Link, Makati
Adobo Country, Taksu Gallery, Jln Merah Saga, Singapore
2017 Microwave Popcorn, Vinyl on Vinyl, Makati City
Collage Show, Underground Gallery
Bending the Circuit of Machine Logic, Artery Art Space, Cubao, Quezon City
2018 Melted City 4(2), Yui Gallery, New York City