- Gallery Text
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Huckaby’s investigative line is energized by the sometimes lucid, sometimes halting relationship between thought and words that forms when two people are in dialogue. His portraits of people from his Fort Worth, Texas, community are composed with quick framing lines that resolve into a virtuosic succession of swirling loops that convey volume, cross-contour verticals, and painstaking hatch and cross-hatch patterns of varying intensity and length. The result is an intimate aggregate of persons and situations, separately attended to but conceptually in conversation with each other and the viewer. The 101 portraits that make up The 99% demonstrate Huckaby’s desire to “aggrandize ordinary people.” This orchestral installation clarifies the stakes of his poetic practice: familiar yet capacious; the personal that is always political. The choice to translate these encounters into the medium and process most associated with commercial and journalistic discourses elevates these lives to the level of documentary history.
- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2018.33.20
- People
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Sedrick Huckaby, American (Fort Worth, TX born 1975)
- Title
- 99% NO.34 Telemicus
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: The 99% - Highland Hills
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 2013
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/361240
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Offset lithograph
- Technique
- Offset print
- Dimensions
- irregular: 12.7 × 9.3 cm (5 × 3 11/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r.: S. Huckaby
- Provenance
- Sedrick Huckaby, created 2013; [Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA], gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2018.
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Edition
- 8/10
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Copyright
- © Sedrick Huckaby
- Accession Year
- 2018
- Object Number
- 2018.33.20
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Exhibition History
- Related Works
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