Yasmin departs from her figurative works in the past to dwell on her early works "And Then I Smiled . . .", a reference to her successful battle in 2010 with an extremely rare cancer (stage 3 sarcoma) that removed a large part of her jaw. The exhibit will help fund her reconstructive surgery and maintenance repair. Feeling "half full, and half empty," after a procedure that left her cancer-free but missing a large part of her jaw and struggling to "make sense of the senselessness of missing my students, my work, my colleagues, but only too glad to be alive," Yasmin surrounded herself with bits of paper, paint, and other materials she randomly put together much like healing the pieces of her broken life.
To coincide with the opening exhibit of Yasmin on March 12, also at Liongoren Gallery, is the fundraising show for the recovery of another artist, Lirio Salvador, who is in a coma at the Lasalle hospital following a motorcycle accident last December 2011. The works of Lirio and his friends will be exhibited until March 24 where all the works will be auctioned off. For more details about the auction please call the gallery at 9124319, 4393962, 9346494 (look for Fatima) or eMail liongorengallery@yahoo.com
