houndsinheavenstudio

03 December 2013

Dudley waxes poetic in paying homage to several mythical characters - Haliya, the masked moon goddess; Bakunawa, the moon-eating dragon who is said to cause solar eclipses; Bululeros, a hybrid demi-god, whose roots are taken from ancient Ifugao and Greek traditions. Dudley focuses on several images that have become part of his psyche and extrapolate themselves in his sculptures in several media: wood, bronze, alabaster, marble and clay.

Filipino modern artist, Duddley Diaz whose works are displayed in places like San Tommaso a Lama Church, Perugia Italy, has been part of numerous solo and group shows in the Philippines, USA and Italy from 1984 to present. He studied Fine Arts at UP Diliman and took further art studies in sculpture and painting at the Academia di Belle Arti, Italy. He received the Pamana ng Lahi Presidential award for Outstanding Filipino Abroad in 2000 and received the Grand Prize for Sculpture from Metrobank Foundation in 2005. The UP Jorge B. Vargas Museum honored him with a retrospective in 2009 covering 40 years of his career and launched his latest book written by Dr. Alice Guillermo entitled "The Art of Duddley Diaz".

The exhibit is open to the public.