Departure 2 - Ezekiel Wong, Betty Susiarjo, Ashley Yeo, Jon Chan and Milenko Prvacki

This exhibition is held from 12th to 27th August 2016 at Ipreciation.

This is similar to Departure 1 (2014) where Milenko chose some of his better students to have a show with him.

We are all familiar with Milenko's works so I will mainly talk about the rest.

Ashley Yeo - this time she showed some drawings and paper cuts. Really love her paper cuts and the 3 pieces on show were excellent and am not surprised all 3 were sold on opening night.

Jon Chan did some paintings. I think he presented 5 paintings 3 of which were sold. Only one of the pieces was excellent. If it wasn't sold, I would have bought it. That piece was the one with the glamorous woman sitting in the MRT with every day people. The rest were so-so.

Betty Susiarjo: what she did was paintings with embroidery on it. Interesting and she is trying something new. Don't think any were sold, but it was interesting work.

Ezekiel Wong did some drawings, animated Gifs and a sculpture which he made himself. His drawings are good. The Gifs are humourous and along the lines of the works which he showed at Mizuma. But the sculpture which he did of the legs and pants much like the Lion Dance one at Mizuma but on a smaller scale (70cm in diameter), was excellent. Not surprised that it was sold also.

Points for collectors: Ezekiel strong buy. He is doing good work. Attracting attention because he is being shown by the bigger galleries. Ashley - strong buy for her paper cuts. Her drawings are also good so buy rating for her drawings. Jon Chan - neutral because only one was good. But definitely improving as compared to the Grey Projects exhibition. Betty Susiarjo is getting attention and has shown at other important galleries like Ota. Neutral to her works. But one to watch.

Ps. no pictures because Ipreciation put up some no-photography signs. :(