Abad’s signature format was trapunto, a style of large-scale quilt.
Despite the playfulness of their textures and coloring, Abad’s
versions often tackled dense, complicated intersectionalities, from
her identity as an immigrant Ivatan woman in the Western world to
the social and political tensions of the authoritarian Marcos
regime in the Philippines.
*Vogue*
This exhibition affords her a level of recognition from the
American art establishment that she never received while alive, and
it is also an occasion for the celebration of the many other
textile practices flourishing in the hands of women worldwide,
which museums still so often struggle to appreciate on their own
terms.
*Nation*
Honors the breadth and fervor of Abad’s roving career...this jewel
of a catalogue permits the artist’s legacy to shine,
resplendently.
*Bookforum*
The artist’s appeal is now instantly apparent in Abad’s must-see
retrospective.
*Artnet*
Cataloguing more than 100 works and featuring oral histories from
Abad’s closest interlocutors, the book extensively details the
beautiful visual practice of an artist who was remarkably unbounded
in lifestyle, medium, vision, and process.
*Hyperallergic*
A new exhibition catalogue illustrates the artist’s dedication to
humanity, managing a tender balance between self-expression and
true global consciousness.
*Hyperallergic*
This book never stopped being visually arresting, compelling, and
joyful.
*AIGA*
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