Installation view: Abang-guard: Makibaka, Queens Museum, Queens, 2025. Courtesy Queens Museum. Photo: Hai Zhang.
Lilly Wei , New York-based art critic and independent curator, reviews Abang-guard: Makibaka exhibit.
It is a succinct, but comprehensive course about the Filipino story here in the US at a moment when the future is up for grabs and the American dream is more of a mirage than ever for countless people who once thought this land was a beacon of possibilities in a dark world. - Lilly Wei
The exhibition runs to January 18, 2026.
Amber Jamilla Musser reviews all three shows at the Center for Book Arts Spring 2021 exhibition including my show Lights, Tunnels, Passages, and Shadows. She connects them as manifesting “theorist Donna Haraway’s concept of sympoiesis and use the forms of the book to enlarge what constitutes knowledge and being together.” The review is featured in the June issue of the Brooklyn Rail.
“Catbagan’s insurgent method of making time and meaning amid the durative is instructive for many of us now, as we each seek to work through the morass of upheaval and destruction…We work through much time and many thoughts with Catbagan, but how (like life) is up to us—we can move through them quickly or pause for more contemplation.” Amber Musser Jamilla writes about my recent painting/drawing series Notations, which are journalistic and diagrammatic interpolations of my daily thoughts and experiences that I have posted via Instagram @moofro.
