Description
Making his debut at Henry Butcher Art Auction, Norman Dreo is a Filipino artist is a pioneer in the use of computer motherboards in paintings of technological cities, incorporating computer chips and circuitry in the frantic daily activity of a group of people. Illustrated here is an eagle-eye view of people swarmed in a computer RAM with a motto on the foreground, which faintly reads “Scale To Fit Media”, a print setting option in Adobe Photoshop software.
Norman Dreo attended the University of the Philippines, College of Fine Arts. He was the recipient of several awards namely Juror’s choice, Asean Art Awards Singapore and Juror’s choice, Asean Art Awards Philippines “Technological Society" for the Philip Morris Art Competition (2011), Finalist “Ipinako sa Krus” at the Philip Morris Art Competition (1999), First Place at the Metrobank National Art Competition “Taginting ng Barya: Sa Ipon Ko Kinita” (1995), among others. In 2001, he received a Full Grant Studio Residency at the Vermont Studio Center, USA. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions internationally namely Sasaran International Arts Workshop, Kuala Lumpur (2008), Europe Exhibits in Germany, Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands and France (2004), and more. He has held more than 10 solo exhibitions namely Street Bytes, Utterly Art Gallery, Singapore (2013), Kapit-Kapitbahay, Red Dot Café Gallery, Manila (2002) and Male Figures, Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, USA (2002).