This spring, MoMA PS1 presents the first retrospective of artist Pacita Abad (Filipina-American, 1946–2004). Spanning the artist’s 32-year career, the exhibition includes more than 50 works—most of which have never been on public view in the United States prior to this exhibition.

Pacita Abad's painting is characterized by color, constant change and experimentation from the 1970s right up to her passing in 2004. Pacita's most extensive body of work is her vibrantly, colorful, trapunto paintings, mixed media painted textile collages and abstract assemblages.

Pacita's most extensive body of work, however, is her vibrant, colorful abstract work - many very large scale canvases, but also a number of small collages - on a range of materials from canvas and paper to bark cloth, metal, ceramics and glass.

Jun 7, 2016 · This 147-piece "Wayang" ceramic dinnerware set made in Indonesia is inspired by the characters of the Ramayana, including the Pandawa brothers, Rama Shinta and Pandu Dewanata, among others. The...

Exploring five themes in Pacita Abad's work: social realism, masks and spirits, abstraction, immigrant experience, and underwater wilderness.

Apr 19, 2024 · Like her American counterpart, Abad—a native of Basco, Batanes, in the Philippines—was both an expressive painter and a master of the narrative quilt, embracing and elevating a medium long...

Pacita Abad (1946–2004) created her first trapunto (a stuffed and quilted painting) in 1981. At the time, Abad was living in Boston and meeting weekly with a group of women artists, including Joanna Kao and Barbara Johansen Newman, whose work would prove deeply influential in both material and political ways to Abad’s rapidly expanding ...

The Pacita Abad Art Estate has contributed approximately 500 images of the artist's work to Artstor. The selection in Artstor illustrates the artist's entire career from the 1970s to her final years and includes paintings, collages, prints, sculpture, ceramics, and the Alkaff Bridge.

Pacita Abad is born on the 5th of October in Basco, Batanes, a remote island in the South China Sea, to Aurora Barsana Abad and Jorge Abad. She is the fifth of thirteen children. Batanes is a small, strategically important island located along the …

Her oeuvre featured an immense array of subject matter, from tribal masks and social realist tableaus to lush and intricately rendered underwater scenes and abstractions.