Terry Acebo Davis

Terry Acebo Davis (born 1953) is a Filipino American artist and nurse based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her art is thematically linked to her family and her origins as a Filipino American.

Terry Acebo Davis
Born1953 (age 69–70)
Oakland, California, U.S.
Alma materCalifornia State University, Hayward
San Jose State University
Known forart
Websitewww.terryacebodavis.gallery

Early life and education

Born in Oakland, California, the oldest of six children, Acebo Davis gained a Bachelor of Science in nursing from California State University, Hayward in 1976, followed by graduate coursework in Pediatric Oncology at the University of California, San Francisco. In 1991 she was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts by San Jose State University, followed by an MFA in 1993.[1]

Rather than become a full-time artist, Acebo Davis chose to balance making art with work as a professional nurse, serving as a Pediatric Critical Care Transport Specialist at Stanford Medical Center.[1]

Jan Rindfleisch writes, "Acebo Davis has bridged worlds in multiple ways. As a Filipino American growing up in Fremont, she had come with her family often to Japantown to buy rice. As an artist and graduate of SJSU, she chose to live in Palo Alto, a midpoint between the arts centers of San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland."[2]

Career

Artistic themes and works

Acebo Davis's art is heavily rooted in her origins as a Filipino American, her family, and racial strife and collision. Dahil Sa Yo, her "seminal work", features repetitive images of her mother set behind multiple boxes of shoes, drawing on the public persona of Imelda Marcos.[1] The repetition of the image serves to emphasize the importance of her mother and other women of her generation, who "held together their families and looked after their home" as immigrants.[3]

About her artwork Phoebe Farris writes, "Acebo Davis’ ability to not only manage but lucidly express her complex identity of Filipino American printmaker/mixed-media artist/lecturer/nurse that fuels her highly meditative work. . . Acebo Davis presents to her viewers visual mantras, simultaneously pleasing in their careful compositions yet hauntingly thought-provoking in their subject matter.”[1]

Benjamin Pimentel of the San Francisco Chronicle states “The marks she makes chronicle her many journeys an Asian American woman, a caregiver and an artist.”[4]

Community engagement

Acebo Davis has served as Chairwoman of the Palo Alto Public Art Commission; as a Trustee for Arts Council Silicon Valley; board president and Advisor for WORKS/San Jose.[5][6]

She is a member of the DIWA Filipino artists' collective, and regularly lectures on the Filipino identity, including lectures at the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Pennsylvania and Mills College.[1]

Awards and distinctions

In 1997 she was awarded the James D. Phelan Award by Kala Art Institute, along with the Radius Award of the Palo Alto Art Center. The same year, she participated in the exhibition Families: Rebuilding, Recreating, Reinventing curated by Flo Oy Wong at the Euphrat Museum of Art.[7]

Acebo Davis received an artist residency at the Frans Masereel Centre in Kasterlee, Belgium in 1998.[1]

In 2003, Acebo Davis was awarded one of the three annual Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowships.[8]

In 2004 she became the first Filipino American to exhibit art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco's Samsung Hall, where her piece Tabing Rising, visually describing her family's immigration to the United States in 1945, was displayed in 2004.[9]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • 1998 New Work, Washington Square Gallery, San Francisco, CA[1]
  • 1996 Of the Body, Boom Gallery, Honolulu, HI
  • 1995 Cantho into Haarlem: New Works, Richard Sumner Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
  • 1993 Redefining Self: The Flip Side, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

Group exhibitions
  • 1998 San Francisco Babaylan, Museo Ng Maynila, Manila, Philippines; Balikbayan Box: Tracing a Strain with DIWA Arts, Bronx Museum, NY; Seino Ka? ano Ka? Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco State University, CA[1]
  • 1997 Respect Diversity, Mountain View City Hall, Mountain View, CA; Families: Rebuilding, Reinventing, Recreating, Euphrat Museum, Cupertino, CA; Mulicultural Perspectives, Koret Gallery, Palo Alto, CA; Bay Area's Diversity in Art, Synopsis, Inc. Office, Mountain View, CA
  • 1996 Alexander Gerbode Foundation, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA; Memories of Overdevelopment: Philippine Diaspora in Contemporary Visual Art, University of California at Irvine; Kayumanggi Presence '96, East-West Gallery, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
  • 1995 Biennial Print Competition and Exhibition, Triton Art Museum, Santa Clara, CA; 13th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA; Filipinas in Hawaii, The Philippine Consulate General, Honolulu, HI; Artists Respond to Proposition 187, San Jose Center for Latino Arts, San Jose, CA
  • 1994 Yellow Forest, , SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Making Women Artists Visible, Galería Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista, CA; Bay Area Artists, Galerie Adlergasse, Dresden, Germany; Día de Los Muertos, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
  • 1993 Works on Paper, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley. CA; Object as Identity, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA; Printmakers, Walter Bischoff Gallery-Amerikahaus, Stuttgart, Germany; American Exhibition, Stuttgart International Airport, Stuttgart, Germany; Kayumanggi Presence, Academy Art Center at Linekona, Honolulu, HI; Time Echoes, C. N. Norman Gallery, University of California, Davis
  • 1992 Harmony of Cultures, Bingham Gallery, San Jose, CA
  • 1991 New Printmakers Invitational, California State University, Long Beach

References
  1. Farris, Phoebe; Jana, Reena; De Jesús, Melinda L.; Kuramitsu, Kristine C.; Lew, William W.; Milford-Lutzker, Mary-Ann (1999). "Asian Pacific American Women Artists". Women artists of color : a bio-critical sourcebook to 20th century artists in the Americas. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. pp. 379–384. ISBN 0-313-30374-6. OCLC 40193578.
  2. Rindfleisch, Jan (2017). Roots & offshoots : Silicon Valley's arts community. Maribel L. Alvarez, Raj Jayadev, Nancy Hom, Ann Sherman. Santa Clara, CA: Ginger Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-9983084-0-1. OCLC 988950620.
  3. De Jesus 2005, p. 293.
  4. Pimentel, Benjamin (1995-04-28). "Art and Nursing". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  5. "Daily News Staff Reports - Calendar". San Jose Mercury News. December 7, 2010.
  6. Dungan, Jesse (January 21, 2011). "Modern fountain wins over arts board". Palo Alto Daily News.
  7. Hallmark 2007, p. 245.
  8. Fischer, Jack (July 20, 2003). "Canvas Can't Contain Work That Literally Spills Onto the Walls of Contemporary Art Gallery; A Skateboarder Sees the Clear Light". San Jose Mercury News.
  9. Luluguisen & Galedo 2008, p. 97.

Bibliography
  • Farris, Phoebe (1999). Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313303746.
  • De Jesus, Melinda L. (2005). Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory : Theorizing the Filipina/American Experience. Psychology Press. ISBN 0415949823.
  • Hallmark, Kara Kelley (2007). Encyclopedia of Asian American Artists. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0313334511.
  • Luluguisen, Evelyn; Galedo, Lillian (2008). Filipinos in the East Bay. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0738558325.
  • Rindfleisch, Jan; Alvarez, Maribel L.; Jayadev, Raj; Hom, Nancy; Sherman, Ann (2017). Roots & Offshoots : Silicon Valley's Arts Community. Santa Clara, CA. ISBN 978-0-9983084-0-1. OCLC 988950620.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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