Tristan Cai highlights the intersection of science and religion in an attempt to understand how people have intellectualized the supernatural throughout history. His recent series Tales of Moving Mountains: Why Won't God Go Away is an unsettling collection of multimedia works that focuses on the evolution of human-god relationships in Christianity, with a focus on developments in Asia.
Since 2011, Andrew McGibbon has been photographing various animals in studio settings, removed from their native context. His most recent project, “Slitherstition” is a series of photographs of more than 30 snakes photographed at close range in front of bright, colorful backgrounds. McGibbon’s pictures, which tread somewhere between commercial portraits and scientific typologies, dispel the snakes’ historically evil mythologies, disarming them into pure design elements and vibrant eye candy.
Hannah Karsen’s "Although I Have Never Been Here Before And Know Nothing About This Place" is a series of topographical photographs that transform man-made trails and pathways into an open-ended study of form and space. This concise grouping of seven images have no narrative arc, no beginning or end, and instead function as a quiet meditation on Karsen’s brief and fleeting encounters with the land.
For Humble Arts Foundation's next online group show, we're looking for photography that addresses how urbanization has shifted in the past decade, with a specific focus on how architecture, culture and community have evolved in cites around the world.
Every so often, we meet (generally on Facebook) individuals who swear Instagram is destroying photography. Despite some pretty convincing arguments, we're fairly certain that, like zippers, it's not the work of the Devil. For us, it's been a great way to discover new artists and explore the in-between journeys of some of our favorite photographers. Since December, Azikiwe Mohammed, Jennifer Loeber, Jaime Lowe, Stephan Sagmiller, and Melanie Flood each did weeklong Instagram residencies on the Humble Arts Foundation Instagram feed, and we encourage you to follow them further.
