Visiting Artist
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Artist Huma Bhabha (RISD BFA 1985 Painting), RISD Painting Department's Kirloskar scholar, shares her creative practice and projects in this talk. Bhabha's sculpture, Ghost, on view in the RISD Museum's Greek and Roman Art galleries.
Free. No registration required. Event details in this link.This talk is sponsored by RISD's Painting Department.
Huma Bhabha’s (b. 1962) work addresses themes of memory, war, displacement, and the pervasive histories of colonialism. Using found materials and the detritus of everyday life, she creates haunting human figures that hover between abstraction and figuration, monumentality and entropy. While her formal vocabulary is distinctly her own, Bhabha embraces a post-modern hybridity that spans centuries, geography, art-historical traditions and cultural associations. Her work includes references to ancient Greek Kouroi, Gandharan Buddhas, African sculpture and Egyptian reliquary. At the same time, it remains insistently modern, looking to Giacometti, Picasso and Rauschenberg for inspiration, as well as to science fiction, horror movies, and popular novels. Bhabha’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions around the world, including at MoMA, the Aspen Art Museum, the Biennale of Sydney and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.