With the Coronavirus/ Covid19 crisis upon us, brick and mortar museums and galleries are pausing their exhibition programming, postponing openings, or, in the most unfortunate scenarios, canceling exhibitions entirely. In light of this, Humble will from time to time feature entire exhibitions from galleries we admire, trust, and call our friends. Right now, we bring you Axis Gallery’s Portraits Without People - curated by Roula Seikaly.

While Seikaly conceived the idea long before we could even consider the potential for today’s pandemic, the exhibition, and its theme seem unintentionally ominous.

Each image from the exhibition appears below, paired with Seikaly’s statement and some installation shots. We encourage you to reach out to artists that catch your eye (their website links are in each image credit), and to the Axis Gallery for any purchase inquiries and updates.

In health, safety, and solidarity,

Humble Arts Foundation Editors

PostedMarch 20, 2020

AuthorEditors

CategoriesExhibitions, Artists, Galleries

TagsPortraits Without People Exhibition, Roula Seikaly, art during Covid19, online exhibitions, Axis Gallery

“Girl at Sunset, Hands Symbolize the Bird” © AdobeStock

Humble Arts Foundation curators want to see your photographic clichés – reimagined!

Photographers, photo editors and curators LOVE talking, complaining and laughing about photographic clichés. Ask any Facebook photo group (we know you’re thinking “ok boomer, Facebook’s for old people”… we get it, bear with us) or random gathering of photographers and you’ll get a fire of responses like:

PostedDecember 3, 2019

AuthorEditors

CategoriesOpen Call, Exhibitions

Tagsphotographic clichés, open call, photo opportunity, Humble Arts Foundation, Roula Seikaly, Jon Feinstein, tropes, clichés, art clichés, photographic tropes, tropes gone wild, online exhibitions

Photographer unknown (image: via creative commons.) Bonus submission points if you can name the folks in this photograph. — Photographer unknown (image: via creative commons.)
Bonus submission points if you can name the folks in this photograph.

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