Walker Art Center – PACITA ABAD Picture Preview

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Walker Art Center Pacita Abad
Pacita Abad, L.A. Liberty, 1992. View of the exhibition Life in the Margins, Spike Island, Bristol, 2020. Photo: Max McClure.

WHEN:

April 15 - September 3, 2023

Sundays - 11 am - 5 pm
Mondays - Closed
Thursdays - Closed
Wednesdays - 11 am - 5 pm
Thursdays - 11 am - 9 pm
Fridays - 11 am - 5 pm
Saturdays - 11 am -5 pm

WHERE:

Walker Art Museum
725 Vineland Place
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55403

TICKETS:

$2 - $18

For more information and tickets visit the Walker Art Museum website.

Walker Art Center Pacita Abad
Pacita Abad, Anilao at its best, 1986, oil, acrylic, mirrors, plastic buttons, and rhinestones on stitched and padded canvas, 116 x 125 in., courtesy the Pacita Abad Art Estate
Walker Art Center Pacita Abad
Abad, Freedom from Illusion, 1984, oil, painted cloth on silk-screened, stitched, and padded canvas, 75 x 81 in.
Walker Art Center Pacita Abad
Abad, If my friends could see me now, 1993, lithograph with pulp-painted chine-collé and metallic powder, 44-1/2 x 30-1/8 in., edition 23/30, photograph by Rik Sferra
Walker Art Center Pacita Abad
Abad, Marcos and His Cronies, 1985–1995, acrylic, oil, textile collage, mirrors, shells, buttons, glass beads, and gold thread on stitched and padded cloth, 197 x 115 in., collection of Singapore Art Museum
Walker Art Center Pacita Abad
Abad, White heightens the awareness of the senses, 1998, oil, acrylic, oil pastel, dyed cotton, painted canvas, painted cloth stitched on canvas, 84 x 63 in.

A spokesperson describes the event as follows:

"The exuberant and wide-ranging works of Pacita Abad (US, b. Philippines, 1946–2004) are the subject of the first-ever retrospective spanning the artist’s 32-year career. Abad is best known for her trapuntos, a form of quilted painting made by stitching and stuffing her canvases as opposed to stretching them over a wood frame. Organized by the Walker in collaboration with Abad’s estate, the presentation celebrates the multifaceted work of an artist whose vibrant visual, material, and conceptual concerns are as urgent today as they were three decades ago."

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Photos courtesy the Pacita Abad Art Estate and Walker Art Center

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