Roberto
Jamora
Artist
website:
http://birdisabird.blogspot.com
Roberto
Jamora is a senior at Virginia
Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA,
majoring in Painting and Printmaking. He
was born in Annapolis, Maryland on June
24,1987 and raised in Virginia Beach,
VA.
His mother
is from Giporlos, Samar, and his father
is from Sorsogon, Bicol. Since high
school, he has been involved with
organizations like Filipino American
Cultural Society (FACS) and Filipino
American National Historical Society (FANHS).
He is currently a National Director of
Filipino Intercollegiate Networking
Dialogue, Inc. (FIND) District 7.
Roberto is
currently studying and mostly
concentrates on painting but he also
works with video, drawing, printmaking,
and digital media. He spent his first
year of undergrad at Rutgers University,
where he studied Television and Media
Arts. Then he transferred to the VCU
School of the Arts, where he is
currently pursuing a BFA in Painting and
Printmaking. He studied abroad in the
Philippines through Tagalog On Site,
situated at the University of the
Philippines at Los Banos, Laguna, and
throughout the Philippines, in the
summer of 2007.
In his
recent work, he has been making
representational paintings by
transposing different images from
photographs, objects and drawings
through paint on canvas. He communicates
content through color, marks and varying
degrees of representation. He
personifies things and places to reflect
narratives of people like distance and
social constructions. The imagery he
uses come from photographs from epic
places that he has traveled, like the
Philippines, California, etc. His
paintings usually reference landscape,
but collage and still life also. The
amount of information that he gives the
viewer is part of the evocative
experience in his work. He shows the
power in the stillness of things.
Selected for the 2008 Beyond The Barrelman
Exhibition
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Perfect
Lovers (Sundials)
oil on
canvas
48 x 54
2008
$4,000
Balikbayan
Boxes That Never Left
oil on
canvas
36 x 42
2008
$3,000
To purchase any of the jury-selected or
non-selected artworks listed for sale, please
contact Ray In, exhibition
sales coordinator, at (773)
419-4117 or
Sales@BeyondTheBarrelman.com. Items
marked "nfs' are not for sale.
non-selected
entries
Palimpsest
oil on
canvas
48 x 54
2008
$3,200
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Hold (Banaue)(Half
Moon Bay)
oil on
canvas
36 x 42
2007
$2,750
Return to
the FEATURED ARTISTS page
for a full list of artists included in the 2008
exhibition.
Return to
the GALLERY
for a catalog of artworks selected for the
2008 exhibition.
