Pacita Abad: Colors of My Dream: Tina Kim Gallery, New York
Spotlighting Pacita’s abstract body of work created between 1985 and 2002, this exhibition offers a close look at the development of a vibrant and distinctive style as she pushed the traditional boundary of painting over the course of her 32-year career.
Pacita’s oeuvre was informed by her itinerancy and deep engagement with and awareness of issues of globalization, transnationalism, and migration. Incorporating materials and techniques from Manila, Seoul, and Jakarta, the works in this exhibition highlight Pacita’s travels across Southeast Asia. This presentation simultaneously considers her use of color and material ornamentation as a strategy of resistance against the homogenizing modernist paradigm, while forging a transcultural solidarity.
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Colors of my dream, 2002Oil, painted cloth stitched on canvas98 x 71 in
249 x 180 cm -
Orchid fever, 2001Oil, painted batik cloth stitched on canvas97 x 76 in
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Sampaloc walls, 1985Acrylic, mirrors, buttons on stitched and padded canvas71 x 98 in
180 x 249 cm -
Hey sugar!, 2001Oil, batik stitched on canvas104 x 61 in
264 x 155 cm -
Stella by starlight, 2002Oil, Nias batik, batik, printed cloth stitched on canvas91 x 71 in
230 x 180 cm -
I want something in yellow, 1990Acrylic, plastic buttons on silkcreened, stitched and padded canvas56 x 81 in
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Intense, 1992Oil, acrylic on silkscreened, stitched and padded canvas84 x 58 in
213 x 147 cm -
Yellow spider, 1990Acrylic, buttons, mirrors on silk screened, stitched and padded canvas56 x 79 in
142 x 200 cm -
Palengke, 1986Oil, acrylic, mirrors, buttons on stitched and padded canvas82 x 99 in
208 x 251 cm -
I feel for you too, 2003Oil, painted batik cloth stitched on canvas96 x 71 in
244 x 180 cm
