Huma Bhabha culls her sculptures from the archives of science fiction. Like a shadow of Rodin that has fallen into the gutter and reassembled itself with discarded material, Bhabha morphs mineral to vegetable to animal. These hand modeled sculptures of clay and fiberglass fused with found parts depict nearly human creatures. Construction and office refuse suggest the everyday, the known, as a source of anxiety and horror. Also on display, her finelyrendered ink and colored pencil drawings depict god-like megalithic heads rising from turbulent bodies of water

 

   
   

departing on an unknowable quest. Together, these works reference a world continually made and unmade through an emerging mythology of capital.

Huma Bhabha received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Columbia University. She has held one-person exhibitions at the A.N. Gallery in Karachi, Pakistan, Cokkie Snoei in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Kim Light Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Her recent group exhibitions include Derek Eller Gallery, and Baumgartner Galleries in New York, NY.

 
   
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