Isabel Manalo

Work made in 2024

Latest work from February 2023 including work for solo show titled "Ninety Degrees" at the Gaslight Art Gallery in Frederick, MD.

New Work from May 2022

New Body of Work for 2022 solo show at Addison Ripley Fine Art.

Sketches on Linen or Gessoboard from 2021 - 2022 also currently exhibited at Addison Ripley Fine Art.

Series of portraits made beginning in 2020 until present

New Paintings for solo exhibition at Addison Ripley Fine Art

A continuation of work driven by the Baybayin, the pre-colonial script from the Philippines. The body of work includes pieces from "Skin Codes" and has newer pieces that are more abstract and layered with paint and varnish.

Currently making work inspired by the ancient art of Filipino tatooing. The codes and symbols include the pre-colonial alphabet called the Baybayin as well as contemporary codes found in maps and social media. A suite of paintings from this series was exhibited at the Hilbertraum in Berlin. A full solo exhibition will feature more mix-media works in November 2015 at the Stony Brook University in Long Island's Paul Zuccaire Gallery.

Mix media work for and leading up to a solo site specific installation at the Orlando Museum of Art New Works Gallery, Orlando, FL USA. March - April 2014. Work incorporated photo collage and paint with stitching with thread onto paper and canvas. The solo piece was titled "Stitching the Seam".

Landscape and tree abstractions made of collaged photographs and paint on gesso board, yupo and mylar. Work was exhibited as a solo show at Addison Ripley Fine Art, Washington D.C. 2009 called "Bits of Elsewhere".

Body of photo collage and mix media work on mylar, yupo and gesso board of hybrid and mutated animals and landscapes.

Landscape paintings based on photographs I took and manipulated. Showed a number of them in a solo show at Addison Ripley Fine Art, Washington D.C. 2009 called "Once Upon".