Artist Statement
I like how artists Ilya Kabakov and Tom Sachs create "art stories" using banal objects that we associate with our own memories and experiences. In many of my works. I am working with similar strategies using every day materials and I am streaming my own narratives. I've spent the last few years obsessing over locusts and how climate changes effect animal behaviors. I'm interested in things that can't be explained but are part of the fabric of our every day lives. I often change my mediums from encaustics on wood to metal on styrafoam because they represent the organic and the synthetic. The struggle between humanity and nature is a constant theme in my work.
Bio
Filipe is currently a Visual Arts Teacher at Barnstable High School. He earned an MFA from the University of Connecticut in 2003 with a focus in Studio Art. At the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, he earned a BFA in Art Education with a concentration in Painting. He has also taught a variety of fine arts courses at Bridgewater State University and local institutions, He has had solo shows at The Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton and the Wallace Anderson Gallery at Bridgewater State University. His work has been selected for National Juried shows throughout the region. Filipe is one of the founding members of SNAC, Southern New England Artist Community. This is a group dedicated to pooling resources and providing artists a platform to display, sell and share their work with the public. His studio is located in Raynham Mass where he lives with his wife and family.
Bio
Filipe is currently a Visual Arts Teacher at Barnstable High School. He earned an MFA from the University of Connecticut in 2003 with a focus in Studio Art. At the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, he earned a BFA in Art Education with a concentration in Painting. He has also taught a variety of fine arts courses at Bridgewater State University and local institutions, He has had solo shows at The Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton and the Wallace Anderson Gallery at Bridgewater State University. His work has been selected for National Juried shows throughout the region. Filipe is one of the founding members of SNAC, Southern New England Artist Community. This is a group dedicated to pooling resources and providing artists a platform to display, sell and share their work with the public. His studio is located in Raynham Mass where he lives with his wife and family.
Selected Exhibitions
Coituit Center for The Arts 2017 Juried Show
True Grit Gallery Middleboro
Enso Flatts Gallery Brockton January 2017
Trescott Street Gallery , “Earth” April 2015
Zeitgeist Gallery Beverly Ma. – April 2015
Trescott Street Gallery Taunton, Ma – “Seeing Red” 2015
Marion Art Center Marion Ma.– Three person exhibit 2014
Laura’s Center for the Arts Hanover, MA Group Show 2014
Small Works (group) 2013 New England Artisan Gallery Wrentham, MA
SNAC Summer Exhibition (group) 2013 Warwick Museum of Art Warwick, RI
2nd Annual SNAC Artist Invitational (group) 2013 Hunakai Gallery Foxboro, MA
Four Artists (group) 2012 Zullo Gallery Medfield, MA
Spring Invitational (group)2012 Hancock 309 Gallery and Consignment Dorchester, MA
Small Works (group)2012 Gallery 55 Natick, MA
SNAC 1st Annual Invitational Exhibit (group)2012 Flora T. Little Gallery Bridgewater, MA
SNAC Winter Exhibit (group)2012 Great Ponds Gallery Lakeville, MA
Gallery X New Bedford 2011
Accidental Gallery, Boston 2011
Gallery X New Bedford 2010
Hunakai Art Gallery, Foxboro MA. 2010
Location1 26 Greene St. NY, NY 2000 International Group Show: “Life after the squirrel”
Post Modern Modge Podge Community arts project Created, produced, edited and aired weekly video collage segment
Juried Exhibitions
Bromfield Gallery South Boston Winter Exhibition 2015
South Shore Art Center National Juried Show –Earth Wind and Fire 2015
South Shore Art Center National Juried Show – Regarding The Third Dimension 2012
Narrows Center for the Arts “Baggage” National Juried Show July 2011
Bromfield Gallery South Boston 12x12” Juried Show 2009
Phoenix Gallery 210 11th Ave Suite 902 New York , NY National Juried Show 1998
Cambridge Art Association Art of Love National Juried Show 1996
Bridgewater Public Access Cable, Bridgewater, Ma. 2002-2003
Recent Curatorial Projects
Seeing Red- Trescott Street Gallery Taunton 2015
Portrait Juried Show – Trescott Street Gallery Taunton 2016