01/09/2026
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The UP Baguio community is invited to visit "Material Explorations", the most recent solo exhibition of Associate Professor of Fine Arts Jandy A. Carvajal at the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Gallery in Intramuros, Manila. The show opens on Monday, September 7, 2026 and will run until September 30, 2026.
Sir Jandy is among the select recipients of an NCCA grant for the institution's 2026 NCCA Gallery Exhibition Program. In "Material Explorations," he presents five subsets of works featuring alternative mediums and substrates for art making: salvaged aluminum for relief sculpture, terracruda soil for painting, as well as wood matchboxes, biscuit tin can covers and egg cartons, complemented by ink and acrylic.
The exhibit's curator Alain Zedrick Camiling notes that with โhumbleโ materials (as the artist calls these), he foregrounds resourcefulness, sustainability, and recycling which he sees as critical to his career as a teaching visual artist.
"Through these diverse experimentations, he shifts attention from the conventional value of mediums to the possibilities of what is humble, discarded, and available."
Before the exhibit ends, Sir Jandy will facilitate a repoussรฉ workshop at the NCCA gallery in the afternoon of September 29, 2026. It was through his initial exploration of this metal embossing technique in 1991 that he started to become more aware of using alternative materials for art making, when possible.
"Material Explorations" is Sir Jandy's second solo exhibit this year. This August, his other body of work, "Bente Kwatrong Isinalarawang Bugtong" (24 Illustrated Riddles), was presented at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, during the Philippine Studies Conference held on August 21-23, 2026. For these mixed media illustrations, he mainly used various scrap paper, and based the compositions on riddles which he wrote originally in Filipino in 2025.
