Photograph of Ronald Achacoso, Popi Laudico, Waling Gorospe, Edna and Juni Salvador and their son, Isabel Aquilizan, Gerardo Tan, Jonathan Olazo, Trek Valdizno (seated), Elaine Roberto-Navas, Alfredo Aquilizan, and his son, at the opening of the group exhibition 'Painting by Numbers', curated by Roberto Chabet at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) in 1995.

'Painting by Numbers'  features over 100 large-scale paintings by over 100 young artists, who are all former and current students of Chabet at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts (UP CFA).

According to Chabet, 'Installed wall-to-wall and phalanx-like at the three upper hallways of the CCP and at the lobby of the Little Theatre, the uniform-size 6 ft. by 4 ft. works in various mediums form a series of virtual murals surveying the varieties of concerns and approaches that are presently energizing the Philippine art scene.

'Painting by Numbers' examines the persistence of painting at the end of the twentieth century as a still viable artistic practice. It investigates the rhetoric of representation, realism, and abstraction in the context of modernism/post-modernist debate and explores painting's optic-field - its daunted flatness and lateralness - as a fertile, expansive field of discourse and vision.

'Painting by Numbers' focuses on a generation of artists who have emerged within the last decade. It includes those who first achieved recognition in the early eighties as well as those who at the start of the nineties began to gain prominence in many important exhibitions here and abroad. Also included are a number of unknown, unexhibited artists who are still in art school where perhaps some of the most uninhibited, innovative works are being created today.'