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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
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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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