ECOTONE Filipa Tojal's Solo Exhibition
Sage Culture is pleased to present ECOTONE*, Filipa Tojal's second solo exhibition with the gallery. The show features the artist's latest works produced while an artist-in-residence at Sage Culture.
For this exhibition, Filipa Tojal received the support of FLAD (The Luso-American Development Foundation) to travel to the United States for the first time and experience a residency program with the gallery. Living in Los Angeles and using Sage Culture as her studio atelier, the artist has prepared 16 new paintings, all while acclimating to the new environment of Southern California.
In November 2021, Sage Culture introduced Filipa Tojal's work to the United States through the solo exhibition "Verdant," which showcased her first significant body of work after an extensive and reflective experience in Japan. Since then, Filipa has also resided in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Her recent move to Los Angeles signifies a new and exciting challenge as she ventures to the opposite coast of the Pacific Ocean, exploring the eastern edge of the North Pacific. Amazed by the abundant sunlight as well as the unique opportunity of creating her works under the same light in which they will be perceived, Filipa Tojal is enthusiastic about exploring a new spatial conception, in which she incorporates the Pacific Ocean as well as the Mojave Desert, particularly Joshua Tree Desert, that deeply captivated her.
* Ecotone - noun Ecology.
1. the zone between two major ecological communities, ecosystems, and/or ecological regions along an environmental or other gradient.
Filipa Tojal (1993, Porto, Portugal) is a visual artist working primarily in painting. Filipa holds a BA in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto and completed a Master's in Painting at Tokyo University of the Arts. She has lived and worked in Japan for four years on a fully-funded scholarship from the Japanese Government. While using Western and Eastern techniques and questioning the differences between these two worlds, she embraces a visual and meditative process, having as her poetic and visual influence the changing surrounding scenarios. Filipa has exhibited her work solo and collectively in Europe, Japan, and Australia and has participated in artist-in-residency programs throughout the globe, such as in France, India, Indonesia, Germany, Portugal, Australia, and the UK.