If You Miss Pacita Abad At MoMA PS1 You Will Regret It
Pacita Abad has not only not appeared in our pages before, but her work was rejected by plenty of institutions who probably should have known better. Now, if given the chance, most of of will choose not to miss her work: Stitch by Stitch, Pacita A…
Installation view of "Pacita Abad" at MoMA PS1. From left: "Waiting in Washington" (1990), "Marcos and His Cronies" (1985-1995) and "Subali" (1983/1990). Kris Graves/MoMA PS1
Pacita Abad has not only not appeared in our pages before, but her work was rejected by plenty of institutions who probably should have known better. Now, if given the chance, most of of will choose not to miss her work:
The Filipino American artist is having her first retrospective at MoMA PS1 as the mainstream art world finally catches up to her work. "You will regret missing it," our critic says.
From left, "Oceania Mask (Dancing Demon)," 1983/1990; "Hopi Mask," 1990; "African Mephisto," 1981; "Mayan Mask," 1990; and "African Mask (Kongo)," 1990, on view at MoMA PS1. Kris Graves/MoMA PS1
About a year before she died of cancer, in 2004, at the age of 58, the artist Pacita Abad and a team painted a pedestrian bridge that crosses the Singapore River with exuberant colors and more than 2,000 circles. Surrounded by ho-hum hotels and apartment buildings, it radiates joy. Abad's work is in museums throughout Asia, and in Manila, where she grew up, the National Museum's holdings include a painfully lucid 1980 painting of two wary children, Cambodian refugees, holding each other.
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