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Title:	Pacita Abad
Date:	10/21/2023 - 1/8/2024
Address:	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third St., San Francisco, CA 94103
Location:	San Francisco, CA
Hours:	Monday–Tuesday, Friday–Sunday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m. / Thursday: 1–8 p.m.
Cost/Cover:	free - $25
Web Page:	https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/pacita-abad/
Contact Info:	415.357.4000

Details:

The first retrospective of Pacita Abad (born 1946, Batanes, Philippines; died 2004, Singapore) features over 40 dazzling works that showcase the artist’s experiments in different mediums, including painting, sculpture, textiles, and works on paper. 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. Over a 32-year career, the prolific artist made a vast number of artworks that traverse a diversity of subjects, from colorful masks to intricately constructed underwater scenes to abstract compositions. Though she became a U.S. citizen in 1994, Abad spent time in 60 countries, including Sudan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, with longer stays in the United States, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Singapore. Through her travels, she interacted with myriad artistic communities, incorporating diverse cultural traditions — from Korean ink brush painting to Indonesian batik — into her expansive practice. Abad’s global, peripatetic existence is reflected in the portability of her works and in her use of textiles, a medium often associated with female labor and historically marginalized as craft.