RECENT WORKS

Positively Ugly series

Positively Ugly

In his Pop Symbolist Positively Ugly series, de Veyra paints fictional gentrified urban neighborhoods containing conscious as well as unwitting symbols of democracy, anti-democracy, or both. To the painter, the ultimate democracy in each of the neighborhoods also semiotically achieves a “positive” color disharmony that conflicts with the clean “corporate aesthetic fascism" of big money-deriving gentrifications.

Jojo Soria de Veyra, The New Middle Class and the Remaking of Our SoHo, Our Spray-Painted Little Section of the City, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 72" x 31 ¼"

The New Middle Class and the Remaking of Our SoHo, Our Spray-Painted Little Section of the City [click on painting for details]

Jojo Soria de Veyra's Earthly Paradise, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 96" x 48"

Earthly Paradise [Photo by Ben Chan of Altro Mondo Creative Space. Click on painting photo for details]

The Imminent Rosy Gentrification of Dove Avenue [click on painting for details]

Constant grounding, with which we learn to crawl through the persistent gentrifications of 1) our irony, 2) the semiotics field, even 3) postmodern wokeness itself [click on painting for details]

At a Pizza to the Polls meeting I said, “True, no one resisted the environmentalist new government's diktat to paint over every building with titanium white paint,...”, 2026, acrylic on canvas, four panels of various size within the lateral vertical space of 72" x 36" [THE PAINTING WILL PREMIERE AT A GROUP SHOW AT ALTRO MONDO CREATIVE SPACE, CHINO ROCES AVENUE, MAKATI, ON 19 SEPTEMBER 2026]

other recent works

Jojo Soria de Veyra, Bacchus and Ariadne (After Titian), 2019, acrylic on canvas, 96" x 48"

Bacchus and Ariadne (After Titian) [click on painting for details]

Jojo Soria de Veyra, I Placed A Jan Fabre Piece on Death at Our Show About Life, 1990, oil on canvas, 21" x 21"

I Placed A Jan Fabre Piece on Death at Our Show About Life, 1990-2018 [click on pictures for details]

Jojo Soria de Veyra's Liwanag-sa-Dilim Electric Fan, 2022, bricolage

Liwanag-sa-Dilim Electric Fan (Light-in-the-Darkness Electric Fan), 2022. [click on picture for details]

Jojo Soria de Veyra, The Fetishist (or, Allegory of Our Collective Sadness/Badness), 2012-2018, acrylic on shaped canvas, laterally 48" x 31 ½" (Photo by Patrick Ang)

The Fetishist (or, Allegory of Our Collective Sadness/Badness) [click on painting for details]

Jojo Soria de Veyra, Leda/Leather and the Swan (or, BDSM Religions), 2012-18, acrylic on canvas, laterally 48 x 31 1⁄2 inches (Photo by Patrick Ang)

Leda/Leather and the Swan (or, BDSM Religions) [click on painting for details]

Jojo Soria de Veyra, A Paedophile's Mini-Symphony in White, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 18" x 14"

A Paedophile's Mini-Symphony in White [click on painting for details]

Jojo Soria de Veyra, The Bitch (or, Allegory of a Slur + A Black Man), 2012-18, acrylic on canvas, laterally 48 x 31 1⁄2 inches (Photo by Patrick Ang)

The Bitch (or, Allegory of a Slur + A Black Man) [click on painting for details]

Jojo Soria de Veyra's Infanta Margarita Teresa in Pink Gym Wear

Infanta Margarita Teresa In Pink Gym Wear [click on painting for details]

Jojo Soria de Veyra's Variation on Alfonso Cuarón's Shot of Sandra Bullock's Ass (Rated Mercury 13), 2022, acrylic on canvas

Variation on Alfonso Cuarón's Shot of Sandra Bullock's Ass (Rated Mercury 13) [click on painting for details]

I Dreamed Alexander McQueen Tackled Philippine Reality, Too [click on pictures for details]

Jojo Soria de Veyra, The Day I Wished Alexander McQueen Tackled Philippine Reality, Too, 2018, acrylic on canvas, each panel 20" x 30"

Jojo Soria de Veyra, The Day I Wished Alexander McQueen Tackled Philippine Reality, Too (panel 1), 2019, acrylic on canvas

Jojo Soria de Veyra, The Day I Wished Alexander McQueen Tackled Philippine Reality, Too (panel 2), 2019, acrylic on canvas

Jojo Soria de Veyra, The Day I Wished Alexander McQueen Tackled Philippine Reality, Too (panel 3), 2019, acrylic on canvas

Jojo Soria de Veyra, I Saw Fighting Temeraires (refusing to be tugged to their last berth to be broken up), acrylic on canvas, 45" x 30"

I Saw Fighting Temeraires (refusing to be tugged to their last berth to be broken up) [click on painting for details]

Jojo Soria de Veyra, Allegory of Apathies, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 14 x 10 inches (Photo by Patrick Ang)

Allegory of Apathies [click on painting for details]

Jojo Soria de Veyra, Mask of an Artivist Soul as a Middle-Class Aficionado of Social Realism, 2006-18, acrylic on canvas, 24" x 24"

Mask of an Artivist Soul as a Middle-Class Aficionado of Social Realism, 2006-2018 [click on painting for details]

Jojo Soria de Veyra, Felix's Leap Into That Grumbacher and Lefranc & Bourgeois Ultramarine-Blue Acrylic Void, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 31 ¼" x 72"

Felix's Leap Into That Grumbacher and Lefranc & Bourgeois Ultramarine-Blue Acrylic Void [click here to see details]

Jojo Soria de Veyra, "I Look Better Than Him in White", 2019, acrylic on canvas, 96" x 48"

"I Look Better Than Him in White" [click on painting for details]

Jojo Soria de Veyra, A Baroque Ode to the Lipstick Feminists' Attack On a Village, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 72" x 31 ¼"

A Baroque Ode to the Lipstick Feminists' Attack On a Village [click on painting for details]

Jojo Soria de Veyra, Story of Iesus Nazarenus Resorts, Inc. (detail), 1990, oil on canvas, 31 ½" x 46 ¼"

Jojo Soria de Veyra, Story of Iesus Nazarenus Resorts, Inc., 1990, oil on canvas, 31 ½" x 46 ¼"

Story of Iesus Nazarenus Resorts, Inc., 1990-2018 [click on painting for details]

Jojo Soria de Veyra, O My God! (or, Somebody Squealed On Przybyszewski and Madonna), 2019, acrylic on canvas, 102" x 59"

O My God! (or, Somebody Squealed On Przybyszewski and Madonna) [click on painting for details]