Bloodlines showcases nine artists who create artwork as a method of reclaiming, preserving and transforming the role of cultural heritage in their lives. By negotiating the physical and spiritual bonds between past and present, these artists explore familial relationships, the lingering effects of diaspora and how ancestral memories shape the way we exist in the…
Mahogany Message: Humaira Abid’s ‘Searching For Home’ captures the worldwide refugee crisis through elaborate woodcarvings Lisa Edge for Real Change News covers Humaira Abid‘s solo exhibition at Bellevue Arts Museum In the exhibition, the ordinary is beautifully exalted, further emphasizing that what unites us is far greater than what makes us dissimilar. If we were…
THE DEFIANT COMPASSION OF HUMAIRA ABID by T.s. Flock The case of Humaira Abid is one of true defiance rooted in compassion. Abid defied expectations when she became an artist in Pakistan. She defied norms within that realm when she chose wood as her primary medium. She defies cultural taboos when she uses her sculptures…
Humaira Abid is known for her bold, symbolically rich and precisely realized wood sculptures and miniature paintings. Her work demonstrates a fearless approach to tackling cultural norms, gender roles and relationships, often with an ironic edge. Personal life becomes a metaphor for current events and everyday objects resonate with meanings of love, loss and resistance….
Anatomy of a Sculpture: A Migrant Story, Carved in Wood by Amber Cortes
Seattle artist Humaira Abid examines a crisis through a feminist lens by Brangien Davis for Crosscut Searching for Home, the new solo show by local sculptor Humaira Abid, is confined to one room at Bellevue Arts Museum. But her striking imagery slips across traditional borders and takes up residence in the mind. A native of Pakistan…
ArtXchange Gallery is currently accepting submissions for an October/November group exhibition exploring the perpetuation of one’s cultural heritage in today’s globalized, post-modern society. How do artists express the intersecting elements of their identity, from DNA to familial tradition to contemporary daily life? How do individuals who are immigrants and/or diasporic children claim and preserve their…
During the Upstream Music Festival in Pioneer Square, ArtXchange Gallery features a new exhibition, Singularity Now, showcasing three Seattle-based painters with highly distinctive, graphic styles. Featuring Jonathan Wakuda Fischer, Jazz Brown and Gabriel Marquez.
In Great Detail by AMANDA MANITACH April 24, 2017 “I believe making the work uncomfortable is sometimes good,” Abid says. She’s never done anything less. Her work is a one-woman j’accuse against rules of social conduct that reduce women to mere containers and objects. Read the full article at CityArts online.
Deluge Upstairs (Tomorrow is a New Day) hand-cut paper 24 x 18 inches $850 One sweaty April day the old man who lived next door approached my house dressed in a white linen shirt, traditional Khmer red and white gingham scarf and black cotton pants. He placed his hands together in formal greeting and I…
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