At the end of the Pacita Abad retrospective at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis last summer, there hung, unassumingly, her most monumental work: a 17-foot-high trapunto painting titled Marcos ...

T wo decades after her passing, the artist Pacita Abad took a victory lap around North America. Her reemergence in that part of the art world’s sphere couldn’t have been any g ...

Pacita Abad with her trapunto painting Ati-Atihan, 1983, wearing garments and jewelry collected on her travels. Courtesy Pacita Abad Art Estate There is a term in the Philippines, borloloy ...

Notable for developing the technique of trapunto painting, a re-interpretation of Italian quilting techniques, Abad began stuffing her later canvases with culturally charged items such as shells, ...

The works of Filipino artist Pacita Abad made their way to galleries and exhibits all around the world, even after passing in 2004. One of these global journeys was to Kunsthaus Zürich, the largest ...

Notable for developing the technique of trapunto painting, a re-interpretation of Italian quilting techniques, Abad began stuffing her later canvases with culturally charged items such as shells, ...

Today, she is increasingly recognised as a pioneer who helped dislodge the “folksy” image of fabric art with her highly charged creations. Abad was best known for adapting the trapunto ...

In 1992, she made a trapunto work called L.A. Liberty, which is a tribute to people of color. It is an acrylic painting of the Statue of Liberty but with brown skin and black hair, embellished with ...

She’s best known for “trapunto paintings,” named for a 14th-century Italian quilting technique. She explained her innovative method in a 1991 interview: “I paint, using either oil or ...