Organised by the Walker Art Center and now on view at MoMA PS1, this is the first museum retrospective of the late Filipina artist Pacita Abad (1946-2004). She is most widely known for what she referred to as 'trapunto' paintings-massive works that she made by stuffing and stitching her painted canvases, instilling them with three-dimensional, quilt-like textural elements.
This is the first major retrospective for Amalia Mesa-Bains, who since the 1970s has created work that uses the form of traditional Mexican altars and ofrendas (offerings to the dead) as the aesthetic and narrative driving force behind her practice. Mesa-Bains-who was born in 1943 in Santa Clara, California to a family of Mexican immigrants-has long been interested in these forms...
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