Leo Angelo Bisquera (b.1995) is an emerging geometric abstract painter currently based in the Philippines. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (painting) from the University of Santo Tomas in 2017, has exhibited throughout South and South-East Asia at venues including the Thailand Cultural Centre, Bangkok, and was a finalist in the Filipino based ARTablado National Painting Competition in 2020.

His practice investigates notions of emotion and impulse through a variety of colour, line and field studies in his paintings. Combining geometric abstraction with a refractive and at times, psychedelic twist, Bisquera mounts a unique and highly stylised approach to portraying colour, pattern and movement.

Bisquera describes his practice as a combination of calculated geometrics and impulsive abstraction. Influenced by significant artists such as Sol LeWitt, Paul Klee and Sarah Morris, he seeks to expand on existing notions of abstraction from the era of modernism.

He was invited to join Global Artists Committee of Asian Art Association in 2020.

Inspired by lines, movement and impulsivity, Bisquera's works seek to explore the vibrant, connected and awe-inspiring patterns that exist in our world through an abstract lens.

Leo combines unique ‘process driven’ techniques. Each created using acrylic on canvas, it features a structured and calculated approach, impulsive and unmeasured which is achieved without the use of a paintbrush, and a calculated, movement-based study, as well as a combination of each technique.

By comparing and contrasting various approaches to abstraction, movement and impulsivity, his works allow for a deep consideration of the aesthetic result from various levels of impetuousness. From the hard-lined and geometric approach through to the unfettered and hyper-painterly manner, we are able to understand and explore several structures, formations and realizations of the abstract pursuit.

Exhibitions

Solo

2019
Asymmetrical Balance, Sigwada Gallery, Manila, Philippines

Group

2020
Grupong Tomasino, Beato Angelico Gallery, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines

2019
Babae, Sigwada Gallery, Manila, Philippines

Tawag ng Kalikasan, Gallery 928, Quezon City, Philippines

Geometrica Equilibria, Sigwada Gallery, Manila, Philippines

Sanctuary, Gallery 928, Quezon City, Philippines

Mousseux, Gallery 928, Quezon City, Philippines

2017
BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines

2014
Fantasy, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines

International

2019
The Many Faces of Ramayana - Thailand Cultural Center, Bangkok, Thailand

Awards

2020
Finalist – ARTablado National Painting Competition

Press

2019
Bangkok Post - "A story told a hundred different ways"