Sedrick Ervin Huckaby (1975) is an American artist known for using thick paint, an impasto to create a mural that evokes a traditional quilt and produces great portraits that represent his personal history through pictures of family members and neighbors. Huckaby has worked with images of quilts for years, removing them from portrait background components to the subject of his work. He was interviewed about his quilt-influenced abstract work in podcasts for the Painters Table . His work is on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Boston Fine Arts Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Chicago Institute of Art, and Nasher Art Museum at Duke University..
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Biography
Huckaby is a native of Fort Worth, Texas. As a child, Huckaby spends time drawing characters from TV shows like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Battlestar Galactica. While in High School, he attends classes at the Museum of Modern Art where he meets fellow artist Ron Tomlinson, who encourages Huckaby to pursue art as a career. He studied art at Texas Wesleyan University before receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Boston University in 1997 and Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in 1999. He has taught at the Grant Hill Collection of African American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, and through The Artist's Eye series at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. She is currently an assistant professor of painting at the Department of Art and Art History at UT Arlington, where she has been teaching since 2009. She is married to artist Letitia Huckaby.
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Work
His 2008 Big Momma House series includes 65 paintings, pastels and drawings made over a two-year period. The focus of this collection is maternal grandmother, Hallie Beatrice Carpenter, mother of the family and better known as "Big Momma". His work "A Love Supreme (Spring)", based on a jazz song of the same name by John Coltrane, and depicts a series of quilts draped across canvas that emphasize weight and texture. In this oil-sized mural, the folds of brightly colored fabrics imitate the rhythm and syncopation of the Coltrane jazz hit while paying homage to his traditional grandmother's African-American blanket. The 99% -Highand Hills series is a collection of portraits inspired by the Occupy Wall Street 2011 movement, showing the economic gap of the US population through a sketch of community members in addition to quotes from everyone.
Awards and Differences
In 1999, Huckaby was awarded the Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. He was awarded the Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship from Yale University in 1999 that funded his journey to study Henry Tanner's works. Again in 1999 he was awarded a Provincetown Fellowship from the Arts Works Center and then spent several months working there. In 2001, he was awarded the Best of Show and then held a solo exhibition for the 20th International Fine Arts Competition and Black Art Exhibition at the African American Museum in Dallas, Texas.
In 2004, Huckaby was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, awarded to recognize "painters and sculptors create works of exceptional quality through unlimited career support". In 2004 he also received the Beth Lea Clardy Memorial (first place) award at Art in the Metroplex in Fort Worth, Texas. In 2008 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship, one of the most prestigious art grants in the country.
In 2014, Huckaby receives Residents and Fellowship Visiting Visitors through the Brandywine Workshop and also the Davidson Family Fellowship sponsored by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. In 2016, he was one of the winners of the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, hosted by The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. In 2017 he received the Moss/Chumley North Texas 2016 Artist Award, which is awarded annually by the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He was named 2018 Texas State Visual Artist, in the 2D category (painting and drawing).
Exhibition
Selected Solo Exhibition
- 2016- 99% - Highland Hills , American Art Museum of Carter, Fort Worth, Texas
- 2008- Sedrick Huckaby: A Love Supreme, The Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts
- 2008- Sedrick Huckaby: Big House of Momma, Lembah House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
- 2008- Inheritance: Huckaby Sedrick's Paintings , Hammonds House Museum and African American Resource Center, Atlanta, Georgia
- 2006- Sedrick Huckaby: Quilts and Portraits , Nielsen Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
- 2006- Sedrick Huckaby , Greenville County Museum, Greenville, South Carolina
- 2006- Sedrick Huckaby , Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas
- 2006- Sedrick Huckaby , San Angelo Art Museum, San Angelo, Texas
- 2006- Sedrick Huckaby , Museum of Folk Art, Monroe, Louisiana
- 2006- Sedrick Huckaby: Black National Art Exhibition, New York, New York (House of the Valley Gallery
- 2005- Sedrick Huckaby: Portraits and Quilts, Gallery of the Valley House, Dallas, Texas
- 2003- Highest Love , African American Museum, Dallas, Texas
- 2003- Place Between Abstraction and Representation: Sedrick Huckaby, Carillon Gallery, Tarrant County University, Fort Forth, Texas
- 2002- Sedrick Huckaby- Latest Jobs, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, Fort Worth, Texas
- 2001- Fragments of Life , Evelyn Siegel Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
- 2000- Latest Paintings , Art Works Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
- 1999- Kate Neal Kinley Fellowship Show, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
- 1999- Sedrick Huckaby: Paintings, Wendell Street Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
- 1997- Living Miracle, Wendell Street Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Selected Collections
- Sedrick Huckaby at Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
- Fort Worth Central Library, Fort Worth, Texas
- African American Museum, Dallas, Texas
References
External links
- Sedrick Huckaby's page on UTA.edu
- Ask & amp; Interview (Jerome Weeks) and video (Dane Walters) "Monumental And Personal And Here," KERA's Art & amp; Seek Artist Highlights, 14 Jul 2016
- Video: Sedrick Huckaby Artist Talk at Valley House Gallery, December 14, 2013
- Podcasts of Modern Art Notes
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