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,…
Check out the wonderful exhibition review by Lisa Edge for Real Change News covering the Bloodlines show and in-depth interviews with Samina Islam (featured on the cover), Steve Johnson and Raychelle Duazo. “Bloodlines” is a chorus of diverse voices playing off one another in perfect harmony. The artists are exploring familial ties, whether there’s…
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…
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.
Humaira Abid’s ‘Self Portrait’ speaks bluntly about gender inequality By Michael Upchurch, in the Seattle Times “Exquisite craft and barbed wit blend perfectly in the work of Humaira Abid. Her medium is wood. Her focus is on social inequities. Her feelings, particularly, about the roles that women are expected to play in her native Pakistan…
Pacific Northwest artist Elaine Hanowell has been perfecting her lighted sculptures of fish since 1986. After a large commission in 1989 by Tom Douglas for his restaurant, the Dahlia Lounge, Hanowell’s lighted fish became a signature style of the restaurant and her work. 30 years later, her work is now in homes and public collections…
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