Sunday, April 19, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Bamboo Flats Art Project
The Upper Room Art Gallery has a new annex in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It's the "Bamboo Flats Art Project", at 718 NE Third Avenue. Project Director is Timothy Hamilton. Please check out the blogsite to get complete information and more photos. Stop by and see the work! http://www.bambooflatsartproject.blogspot.com/
Friday, May 23, 2008
Upper Room Art Gallery
wins 2008
"Best Art Gallery in
Downtown Fort Lauderdale"
from Riverwalk Trust/
Go Riverwalk Magazine !
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
"Light of the World Lamps" by Wendy Regalado
with steel frame. 6 ft. x 6 ft. $5,000
Handmade paper and bamboo
The organic paper used in these creations is an economic development project for the poor, in the Philippines. It is a church-based job creation program called "Village Handcrafters".
Monday, April 07, 2008
The Chairs are here!
We have 4 chairs from Benji Reyes, now here at the Upper Room Art Gallery in Fort Lauderdale Florida. 2 of the "Eena" chairs as seen above. This chair is made from recycled hardwoods, many of which are endangered or protected. Benji sources his wood from salvage crews demolishing ancestral homes and other buildings, in the Philippines. His furniture features a multitude of gorgeous woods...these Eena chairs have the following special woods: Kamagong, Narra, Yakal, Ipil, and Dungon. The Eena chairs are $2,200 each. We also have a Benru chair @ $3,000, and a special one-of-a-kind "Badjao" bench (Surfboard) for $4,000- made from Dao, Yakal and Kamagong. This furniture is not only gorgeous and meaningful, but surprisingly comfortable for hardwood. The back piece has a "give" to it, a little spring action.
See for yourself!
Saturday, December 01, 2007
At Mark Merrill's show "Divine Design", Rockwell Makati, July 2007
rekindled acquaintances
time
art
friends
compadres
See Malang (sir), Mark did a drawing of you, during one of the Saturday Group sessions(fill in a comment as to what you think Malang is responding)
Malang is a former cartoonist, so he won't mind if we put a comment balloon on this and fill in the imaginary space as to what he might be saying.....
Cesar Legaspi, Tita Betty and Nestor DeVilla were also a part, but now gone on
to be with the Lord.
Jing Malic was also a member.
Monday, September 03, 2007
Rockwell Show, July 2007 Makati, Metro Manila
Saturday, June 16, 2007
"Fragrant Presence", a show of paintings by Mark C. Merrill at Onessimo Fine Art, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, March 2007
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Coming Soon
Chandeliers made from discarded cigarette lighters, harvested from the beach. Ann said that during a diving trip in the Philippines, she has picked up more than 300 lighters from the beach and reefs herself.
This piece is currently in Jakarta, Indonesia.
We hope to have it in the U.S.A. for display at
Upper Room Art Gallery's new site in Florida.
The Garbage Furniture
Ann has a non profit project in Jakarta, Indonesia, and employs the dump scavengers to collect and clean plastics from the dump, which she then uses to fashion into furniture art. Her jobs provide much better pay, and healthier jobs than their life as scavengers on the dumps.
Ann lives in Manila, and attended the same art school as Robin Merrill (although we didnt know each other at college, we met in Manila) - California College of Arts & Crafts.
Upper Room Art Gallery has one of these chairs here in Florida.
It is our hope and goal to begin a limited edition line of furniture made by Ann Wizer and sold here in the Upper Room Art Gallery in Fort Lauderdale. This will be an economic development project among the poor that we work with in the Philippines and Indonesia.