Women empowered through art
Art can be a medium to self-expression where you can showcase your emotions and the darkest of your secrets. Two female artists, a local artist from Batanes, Philippines and an African-American artist from Atlanta, Georgia, not only are excellent in their craft but also shares sentiments that their countrymen and/or fellow will relate to were brought to light in this article.
The aesthetic of Pacita Abad's painting is characterized by color, constant change and experimentation which is evident on all her works from the year 1970 upto her passing on 2004. Pacita is also known for her vibrantly, colorful, mixed media painted textile collages, abstract assemblages, and trapunto paintings. Pacita has worked almost on all types of medium that ranges from paper, bark cloth, metal, ceramics and glass. Throughout her career Pacita also has worked on colorful prints, paper collages.
Her early paintings were considered to be figurative, socio-political works of people, refugees and tribal masks drawn from her experiences in Africa, Asia and Latin America. These paintings had led to her work entitled “American Dream" which was an immigration series. Another body of work consisted of large scale nature paintings based on her love of underwater scenery, animal wildlife and tropical flowers. A disciplined and prolific painter, Pacita created over 4,500 artworks and, among her public art projects painted a 55-meter long bridge in Singapore and covered it with 2,350 multicolored circles, just a few months before she died.
The life of Pacita Abad is as colorful as her works, not only did she painted wonderful work of arts but also painted a notion that Filipinos specifically women have a place on this industry that they too can be empowered through art, and even after her passing her legacy lives on.
Amos is a postmodernist artist, who uses different medium and disciplines to create art or to what others have coined on her as a “seamless work of art”.
Her usage of African textiles resembles her heritage; being an African-American she uses her heritage as an inspiration. Through her works, she also explores issues such as politics, gender and race and incorporates those to her works. Her works were considered to be highly expressive, her works were mostly a combination of two or more disciplines such as printmaking, painting, and textiles with photography and collage. She is not only known as a painter but also as a teacher, curator, writer, and activist.
The works of her hand are exceptional, her paintings with African fabric which were also made by Amos. the texture of her works resembles “African diaspora”, to which she seems to tell a story about her heritage.
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