{"id":1311,"date":"2014-05-29T21:28:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T01:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2017-04-13T19:27:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T23:27:29","slug":"pacita-abad-art-estate-interview-with-jack-garrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/pacita-abad-art-estate-interview-with-jack-garrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacita Abad Art Estate \/ Interview with Jack Garrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1311-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/pacitaabad.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/pacitaabad.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/pacitaabad.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1363 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Pacita-Abad.jpg?resize=206%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pacita Abad\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Pacita-Abad.jpg?resize=206%2C300&amp;ssl=1 206w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Pacita-Abad.jpg?resize=704%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 704w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Pacita-Abad.jpg?resize=624%2C908&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Pacita-Abad.jpg?w=825&amp;ssl=1 825w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/>Pacita Abad (1946 &#8211; 2004) was an internationally renowned, Philippine-American painter who was born in Batanes,\u00a0a small island in the South China Sea. Her 32 year painting career began when she traveled to the United States to\u00a0study law, but later switched careers to dedicate her life to painting.<\/p>\n<p>Pacita holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of the Philippines and a Master of Arts\u00a0degree \u00a0in Asian History from the University of San Francisco, California. She then studied painting at the Corcoran\u00a0School of Art, Washington, D.C. and The Art Students League in New York City.\u00a0\u00a0Since that time Pacita never stopped being\u00a0a gypsy artist, and painted the globe while working on six different continents and traveling to more than 50 countries. During her career\u00a0Pacita created over 4,500 artworks, and her paintings were exhibited in more than 200 museums and galleries around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Pacita&#8217;s\u00a0artistic career, right up to her her early death at age 58, was a creative continuum exploring and expanding new\u00a0mediums, techniques and materials. She incessantly pushed herself and her work forward year after year, never repeating\u00a0any series or body of work no matter how successful.\u00a0After her early years\u00a0Pacita grew to reject the painterly emphasis on\u00a0surface flatness, as she constantly sought ways to expand her painted canvases. She developed a unique, innovative\u00a0painting style which she called trapunto painting, that\u00a0fused spontaneous self-expression with hand-stitched painted surfaces\u00a0covered with traditional materials, found objects and her signature vibrant colors.<\/p>\n<p>It is a challenge to comprehend Pacita Abad\u2019s artistic career as one unit as her work traversed from her: initial socially\u00a0conscious beginnings of displaced people, political violence, refugees and immigrants from countries like Bangladesh, Sudan\u00a0Dominican Republic, Cambodia and the Philippines; to vibrantly colored, hand stitched trapunto paintings depicting masks\u00a0and spirits from Oceania, Java, Islands Southeast Asia, Africa and the Americas; to nature inspirations with paintings\u00a0including the undersea world of the South China Sea, Australian Outback and Asia\u2019s tropical flowers; to her most\u00a0comprehensive and boldly colorful abstract paintings, prints, and mixed media collages on canvas, paper, bark cloth, glass\u00a0and other mediums, that she focused on during the second half of her career.\u00a0Pacita also did a number of noteworthy public\u00a0art installations such as her &#8220;Masks from Six Continents\u201d in the main Washington Metro Station, and just before she died the\u00a055 meter long &#8220;Singapore Art Bridge\u201d which she covered with 2,350 colorful circles at the same time she was undergoing\u00a0treatment for cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Pacita&#8217;s paintings were featured in solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.;\u00a0Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong; Museum of Philippine Art and the Metropolitan Museum in Manila; Bhirasri\u00a0Institute of Modern Art, Bangkok, Thailand; Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic; Art Museum of Western Virginia,\u00a0Roanoke; National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston; National Museum and the National Gallery of Art,\u00a0Jakarta, Indonesia and the Hadeland Museum in Norway, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Her work also appeared in numerous group exhibitions including: Beyond the Border: Art by Recent\u00a0Immigrants, Bronx Museum; Asia\/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, Asia Society, New York;\u00a0Olympiad of Art (in conjunction with the 24th Olympics), National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea;\u00a02nd Asian Art Show, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan; La Bienal de la Habana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Habana,\u00a0Cuba; Art for Africa, traveling exhibition to Oslo, Cologne, Algiers, London and Rome; UNESCO: 40 Years, 40\u00a0Countries, 40 Artists, traveling exhibition to 15 museums around the world; Filipino Artists Abroad, Metropolitan\u00a0Museum of Manila; and At Home and Abroad: 21 Contemporary Filipino Artists, traveling exhibition to the Asian\u00a0Art Museum of San Francisco, the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston and the Metropolitan Museum of Manila,\u00a0among others.<\/p>\n<p>Pacita\u2019s paintings are now held by museum, public, corporate and private art collections in over 70 countries,\u00a0and are \u00a0regularly auctioned at Sotheby\u2019s and Christie\u2019s. Among the museums that have collected Pacita\u2019s paintings\u00a0are: the Fukuoka Art Museum in Japan, National Art Museum in Singapore, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, National\u00a0Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea, National Museum of the Philippines, Metropolitan Museum of Manila,\u00a0Museum Nasional in Indonesia, Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Museum for Women in the Arts in\u00a0Washington, DC, the Bronx Museum in New York and the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1365\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Yield-to-the-adventure-by-Pacita-Abad-copy.jpg?resize=625%2C894&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Yield to the adventure by Pacita Abad copy\" width=\"625\" height=\"894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Yield-to-the-adventure-by-Pacita-Abad-copy.jpg?resize=716%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 716w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Yield-to-the-adventure-by-Pacita-Abad-copy.jpg?resize=210%2C300&amp;ssl=1 210w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Yield-to-the-adventure-by-Pacita-Abad-copy.jpg?resize=624%2C893&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Yield-to-the-adventure-by-Pacita-Abad-copy.jpg?w=921&amp;ssl=1 921w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1364\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/To-paint-for-you-by-Pacita-Abad-copy.jpg?resize=625%2C988&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"To paint for you by Pacita Abad copy\" width=\"625\" height=\"988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/To-paint-for-you-by-Pacita-Abad-copy.jpg?resize=648%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 648w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/To-paint-for-you-by-Pacita-Abad-copy.jpg?resize=190%2C300&amp;ssl=1 190w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/To-paint-for-you-by-Pacita-Abad-copy.jpg?resize=624%2C987&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/To-paint-for-you-by-Pacita-Abad-copy.jpg?w=850&amp;ssl=1 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/pacitaabad.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listPacita Abad (1946 &#8211; 2004) was an internationally renowned, Philippine-American painter who was born in Batanes,\u00a0a small island in the South China Sea. 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