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Shahzia Sikander (Pakistani American, b.1969), Migrant Love, 2024, stenciled and sprayed pigmented handmade paper; Collection of the Artist, Courtesy of Shahzia...
At the Cantor Arts Center, a reproduction of Shahzia Sikander’s circular artwork Infinite Woman graces the elevator doors on the ground level. As the doors open, so does the image, a perfect arrival metaphor.
The Crone by Lien Truong.
There’s a detail you might not notice when you walk into Spirit House at the Henry Art Gallery. A small, tangerine-colored butterfly perches on Greg Ito’s sculpture, The Weight of Your Shadow, near the entrance. The butterfly rests…
Pacita Abad in her Jakarta studio, c. 1994. (Courtesy Pacita Abad Art Estate)
Before her death in 2004, the artist Pacita Abad traveled to over 60 countries and made more than 5,000 artworks. Only lung cancer stopped her; she died at age 58 in Singapore after completing a large-scale painting installation across…
Pacita Abad in Washington, DC, around 1976 with several of her paintings. Courtesy the Pacita Abad archives, Department of Special Collections and University...
In Pacita Abad’s lifetime, the Filipina American artist made over 5,000 works—influenced by her travels in more than 60 countries—and exhibited in more than 250 shows, largely in Asia and Africa. But it was her posthumous travelling retrospective…
Pacita Abad in her Jakarta studio, c. 1994. (Courtesy Pacita Abad Art Estate)
Twenty years after the artist Pacita Abad’s death, in 2004, of cancer, at 58, her astonishing achievements are finally reaching a wide audience. A rip-roaring retrospective began at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 2023 and ended…