Charles Humes Jr.’s vast body of work across various mediums has focused on chronicling the life, struggles, triumphs, and character of Black people, African Americans, and people of color. Influenced as a young man in the ‘70s and '80s by important cultural movements such as Black is Beautiful and Black Pride, his work follows a rich tradition of former African American artists that expressed the everyday life and conditions of Black people.
This exhibition features work created between 2010 – 2021 that questions and addresses critical economic and societal issues and persistent conditions plaguing inner-city communities. The work in MOTIC is a combination of collage, drawing, and painting that explores the psyche and state of the Black experience in Miami while paying homage to lost lives and historical figures.
