Pacita Abad
Edited with text by Victoria Sung. Text by Pio Abad, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Ruba Katrib, Nancy Lim, Matthew Villar Miranda, Xiaoyu Weng.
A comprehensive survey of Abad's visually dazzling and politically prescient works blending fabric and painting.
Walker Art Center, 2023
Clth | 9 x 11.75 inches | 352 pages | 344 color | 80 bw.
Pacita Abad: 20 Notecard Box Set
Pacita Abad was born in the Philippines but escaped its political turmoil by emigrating to San Francisco. Her evolution as an artist and citizen of the world would involve living on six continents and visiting more than 60 countries, where she was influenced by mixed-media textile arts, Indigenous artforms, and the intricacies of marginalized communities. A woman of color, her fierce creative gaze was focused by her investment in sociopolitical justice and a love for humanity.
20 blank notecards (5 each of 4 designs) with envelopes in a decorative box. Printed in full color on recycled paper with soy based inks. High-quality 250 gsm card stock. Soft white envelopes
Box size: 5.375 x 7.375 x 1.5 in.
Card size: 5 x 7 in.
Pacita Abad:
If My Friends Could See Me Now
12 x 16 in. print
Born in the Philippines to a family of politicians, Abad was greatly influenced by her family’s public service. In 1970, after leading a student demonstration against the Marcos regime, Abad left the Philippines. She intended to move to Madrid to finish a degree in law, but a stop in San Francisco to visit relatives became a long-term stay that would change the trajectory of her life. Over a 32-year career, Abad became a prolific artist, making a vast number of artworks that traverse a diversity of subjects—from colorful masks to intricately constructed underwater scenes to abstract compositions—revealing visual, material, and conceptual concerns that still resonate today.
Pacita Abad:
L.A. Liberty 1,000 Piece Puzzle
Pacita Abad was born in the Philippines but escaped its political turmoil by emigrating to San Francisco. Her evolution as an artist and citizen of the world would involve living on six continents and visiting more than 60 countries, where she was influenced by mixed-media textile arts, Indigenous artforms, and the intricacies of marginalized communities. A woman of color, her fierce creative gaze was focused by her investment in sociopolitical justice and a love for humanity.
High-quality 250-GSM matte artpaper, produced using thick recycled paper board. Includes a 9 x 12 in. insert of the art for puzzle assembly reference.
Box size: 10 x 13 x 1.875 in.
Puzzle size: 20 x 29 in.
Pacita Abad :
I Thought the Streets Were Paved with Gold
1000 Piece Puzzle
Art & Fable Puzzles
18.9 x 26.7 inches
Selected on the occasion of Pacita Abad's first-ever retrospective, this 1000 piece puzzle of Abad's "I Thought the Streets were Paved with Gold" includes a high quality print of the artwork, a box top stand, and a resealable bag.
Over the course of her career, Abad made an exuberant, wide-ranging body of work that was ahead of its time in promoting a transcultural worldview. Drawing on her knowledge of global fiber traditions, Abad innovated a hybrid art form that she called “trapunto” painting (from the Italian word trapungere, “to embroider”).
Abad's “I Thought the Streets Were Paved with Gold”, the work reproduced in this puzzle, is a great example of how Abad expresses the experience of immigrant populations throughout her varied practice.
