Installation view at Frieze of Pacita Abad, The Far Side of Apo Island, 1989. Installation view of Tina Kim Gallery | Booth A9 at Frieze New York. Courtesy of Tina Kim Gallery. Photo by Charles Roussel.
Something about this year’s edition of Frieze New York put us in mind of Miami and Palm Beach palaces, where chunky colorful work thrives alongside baroque flourishes and tile floors. If we were going to choose what to decorate our own with, we would start our wishlist with Pacita Abad, who appears posthumously at this year’s edition thanks to Tina Kim Gallery. If you haven’t seen Abad’s juicy and startlingly beautiful retrospective at MoMA PS1 yet, then let the works on view in this booth offer you a tantalizing taste of what's to come. The Filipino-American artist has a talent for creating wild compositions that feel like every stroke and button is as necessary to the whole as the next.
May 3, 2024
