Pacita Abad / edited by Victoria Sung ; with contributions by Pio Abad, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Ruba Katrib, Nancy Lim, Matthew Villar Miranda, Victoria Sung, and Xiaoyu Weng.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
available through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, April 15-September 3, 2023; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 21, 2023-January 28, 2024; MoMA PS1, New York, March 28-September 2, 2024; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, October 12, 2024-January 19, 2025. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreword / Mary Ceruti -- Acknowledgments -- Texts. A deep entanglement / Victoria Sung -- "After the media coverage ends": The Cambodian refugee series / Nancy Lim -- Vessels for multitudes: The masks of Pacita Abad / Xiaoyu Weng -- Pacita Abad: An oral history / Pio Abad & Victoria Sung -- Pacita Abad's immigrant experience / Ruba Katrib -- Pattern as politics / Julia Bryan-Wilson -- Plates. Early works and sketches -- Social realist works -- Masks and spirits -- Immigrant experience -- Abstractions -- Underwater wilderness -- Reference. News articles -- Chronology -- Exhibition history -- Works in the exhibition.
Summary:
"Catalogue surveying three decades of contemporary Filipina American artist Pacita Abad's multifaceted practice. Published in conjunction with the artist's first retrospective exhibition Pacita Abad, the catalogue includes new essays by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Ruba Katrib, Nancy Lim, Victoria Sung, Xiaoyu Weng, and a narrative oral history edited by Pio Abad and Victoria Sung"-- Provided by publisher.
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