PLET BOLIPATA has been quite visible in the Philippine Art Scene since her first painting exhibition at the Penguin Café Gallery in 1992. Her works can be found in both private and public collections including the Miriam College Gallery of Women’s Art (GAWA) Pinto Art Museum in Antipolo, BenCab Museum in Baguio, and the Center for the Arts in San Antonio, Zambales. She received a Freeman Fellowship as a painter and represented the Philippines at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, in 2006.
Bolipata recently discovered the unique and aesthetically charming combination of fiberglass resin and crochet material. She introduced the fiberglass resin bathtub covered in crochet material in her Alliance Francaise’s Total Gallery joint exhibition with her artist/husband, Elmer Borlongan. in April, this year. It was well received and was included in the 58 Hot Designs List featured in Town and Country’s July issue, 2012.
For Museo Pambata’s auction, she designs a crochet wrapped fiberglass cat with a hat stuck in the cat’s mouth, a play on Dr. Seuss’ Cat in the Hat. She pushes the design further to make it functional art by adding a lighting fixture using an energy saving LED bulb.
Bolipata, “Black Hat in a Blue Kitty Cat”
Fiberglass resin, crochet material, cloth trimmings, paint, polyurethane, varnish, plastic wheels and LED bulb
h: 70″, w: 32″, depth: 19″
2012
Inscribed in the Hat is: “You are you that is truer than true.”
Borlongan, Borlongan
“Long Way Home”
Charcoal on paper, 2008
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