Manuel Ocampo is a contemporary Filipino artist whose works often juxtaposes secular, historical, and religious imagery to evoke socio-political criticism. In a similar vein to both Martin Kippenberger and Philip Guston, Ocampo challenges established iconography, as seen in his painting Virgin Destroyer (Ipis Ni Lupe) (1995), in which a cockroach is painted in the style of the Virgin of Guadalupe and accompanied by a vodka bottle, a plastic rosary, and a bloody knife. “There are a lot of ghosts in paintings,” he explained of the medium. “Paintings are not spectacular, they are not experience driven, they require a slow read.” Born in Quezon City, Philippines in 1965, he moved to Los Angeles at the age of 20 and briefly studied art at California...