Video | Visit Humaira Abid’s Studio on Art Zone
Seattle Channel’s Art Zone with Nancy Guppy takes an inside look at the studio and process of Humaira Abid.
Humaira Abid in Seattle Magazine
New Bellevue Arts Museum Exhibition Shows the Plight of Refugees By Brian Miller | From the Print Edition, Sept 2017 Image Credit: Hayley Young Refugees are the manifest theme of Searching for Home, giving the show a somber, topical punch. (The United Nations Refugee Agency estimates that there are now more than 65 million displaced persons…
International Examiner reviews Searching for Home
Abid’s ‘Searching for Home’ reveals the plight of refugee women and children Exhibition review of Humaira Abid’s Searching for Home (Bellevue Arts Museum) by Susan Kunimatsu for the International Examiner. The purpose of art is to communicate: to share the beauty of an object or place, to convey a feeling, to rally around a cause,…
Humaira Abid Cover Story in Real Change News
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…
Humaira Abid Searching for Home Review on Vanguard
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 | Media Information
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….
Humaira Abid in The Stranger A&P
Anatomy of a Sculpture: A Migrant Story, Carved in Wood by Amber Cortes
Searching for Home in Crosscut News
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…
Upstream + Arts in Pioneer Square
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.
Humaira Abid | Cover Story in CityArts Magazine
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.
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