Terry Acebo Davis

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Terry Acebo Davis
Born1953 (age 70–71)
Oakland, California, U.S.
Alma mater California State University, Hayward
San Jose State University
Known forart
Website www.terryacebodavis.gallery

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.

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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

Group exhibitions

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  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.

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