Over at Peter Blum's Chelsea location is Huma Bhabha's Drawings, a series of "new over-painted and collaged photographs" by the Pakistan-born, Poughkeepsie-based artist. Bhabha added touches of paint, ink, and collage to large-scale prints of photos she shot of vast landscapes in Karachi, Pakistan and Carrara, Italy.
In some of the works, the artist added only a subtle arc, handprint, or outline while in others she added looming, shadowy, alien-like figures or gigantic feet (subjects that often show up in her sculptures as well). Some of the pieces look like nightmarish headshots of mask-like faces while others have funny, incongruous images pasted onto them - like a cute, mischievous dog poking its snout into a fish bowl or a smugly mugging George Clooney in a watch advertisement. The entire surface of some of her works are covered in deep, saturated colors causing the edges of the photo paper to curl slightly.
By "drawing" on her photographs Bhabha creates new stories for her scenes and adds life, mystery, and humor to her images of dusty landscapes and decaying buildings. Learn more at Peterblumgallery.com and see my previous post on Bhabha's sculpture exhibit at Salon 94 Bowery here. Through January 15th.
Untitled (left), 2010, Clifton (right), 2010
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Achilles (left), 2010, Untitled (right), 2010
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