As an artist, I intend to open a visual window to view the dramatic genre of a people depicting intensive images that create an impactful dialogue to my audience. I am concerned with telling a visual story of the plight and condition of people of color. Matters of the Inner City is also the name given to the artist’s exhibition at The African American Heritage Cultural Arts Center Amadlozi Gallery in Miami, Florida (Decem– February 22, 2022) and curated by Donnamarie Baptiste, with funding by The Ellies, Miami’s visual arts awards presented by Oolite Arts. MOTIC, an acronym for Matters of the Inner City, is inspired by Humes’ determination to highlight issues such as old age, extreme poverty, racial inequity, homelessness, and the eventual displacement and loss of culture caused by gentrification in his hometown of Liberty City – one of Miami’s most significant historically Black neighborhoods. The solo exhibition will be on display through September 2023 at MIA’s Gate D31 Gallery. brings his eye-catching “mosaic collages” to Miami International Airport with the opening of MOTIC, a collection of his work that combine collages, drawings, and paintings to explore the state of the Black experience in Miami while paying homage to lost lives and historical figures. ![]() ![]() Miami-based portraitist, muralist, and printmaker Charles Humes Jr. ![]()
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