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Alumnus Patrick Cruz's multi-disciplinary exhibit, Quarantine of Difference, opens at Wil Aballe Art Projects.

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Opening Reception | October 12, 6 - 8 PM

Alumnus Patrick Cruz opens a new multidisciplinary exhibit, Quarantine of Difference, at Wil Aballe Art Projects.

Quarantine of Difference considers the notion of home as a site of refuge, belonging and the familial. Cruz compounds poetry, video, sculpture, and painting as a way to measure and articulate the often arduous space of territoriality, ownership, and settlement.

Patrick Cruz is a Filipino-Canadian artist and organizer working between Vancouver, Toronto and Manila, Philippines. Cruz studied painting at the University of the Philippines Diliman and received his BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and an MFA at the University of Guelph.

Driven by folk sentiment, his multi-disciplinary practice is informed by his interest in cultural hybridity, bio-politics and the paradoxical effects of globalization. Through his exuberant maximalist oeuvre, Cruz construes the notion of ornament and excess as a strategy of re-enchantment and destabilization.

Cruz is the founder of the Kamias Triennial in Quezon City, Philippines; an educational week-long event that serves as a platform for cross-cultural exchange. In 2015, Cruz won the national title for the 17th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition.

Solo exhibitions include Low class minimalism and the gentrified amateur (2016), Projet Pangeé,