Derriere L'Etoile Studios

Huma Bhabha is a contemporary American-Pakistani artist known for her tactile sculptures and drawings. Made from humble materials such as Styrofoam, clay, construction scraps, and wire mesh, some of her best-known works are large, totemic figures. These works often offer only the most subtle suggestion of a face or body in their reference to both tribal art and Modernism. “Looking at science fiction movies and comic books, I realized that the artists making them were using African masks and the art of other times and cultures to develop their characters,” she explained of her influences. “So I began buying cheap plastic masks and using them as armatures for much more elaborate masklike sculptures that eventually incorporated...