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Letitia HuckabySouthern Song - 3-part grass & flower landscape on fabric in embroidery hoops2020
2020
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Letitia Huckaby's "Southern Song" is a three-part archival pigment print on cotton fabric, framed in a found, vintage embroidery hoops. From the series “Beautiful Blackness,” this unique work depicts dreamlike, atmospheric imagery of green grass and white flowers in a Southern landscape. Dimensions reference the approximate size of all three parts of the piece installed together.
As a whole, Huckaby's "Beautiful Blackness" series is filled with documentary-style imagery of the American South: lush landscapes, domestic interiors and exteriors, and ethereal figurative silhouettes. The photographs are presented in a distinctive material dimension, framed in embroidery hoops, reproduced on patterned flour sacks, and sewn into patchwork quilts. Together, the works in "Beautiful Blackness" combine to depict a people and an unfulfilled legacy, yielding a visual elegy for a lost promised land. Rooted in each piece is a concern with the past, punctuated in particular by General William Sherman’s unkept, post-Civil War promise of forty acres and a mule, the migration of Exodusters, and the establishment of Freedmen’s towns throughout the region. The use of heirloom fabrics transforms Huckaby’s works into objects that seem poised to be passed down from one generation to the next.
"Beautiful Blackness" was exhibited at Foto Relevance in conjunction with the Houston-wide FotoFest 2020 Biennial: AFRICAN COSMOLOGIES—Photography, Time, and the Other.
Letitia Huckaby has a degree in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma, a BFA from the Art Institute of Boston in photography and her Master’s degree from the University of North Texas in Denton. Ms. Huckaby has been blessed to exhibit as an emerging artist at Phillips New York, the Tyler Museum of Art, The Studio School of Harlem, Renaissance Fine Art in Harlem curated by Deborah Willis, PhD, The McKenna Museum in New Orleans, the Camden Palace Hotel in Cork City, Ireland, and the Texas Biennial at Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum. Her work is included in several prestigious collections, including the Library of Congress, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia, and the Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Ms. Huckaby is a featured artist in MAP2020: The Further We Roll, The More We Gain at the Amon Carter Museum and State of the Art 2020 at The Momentary and Crystal Bridges Museum, both opening in spring 2020.
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- ArtistLetitia Huckaby (American)
- Creation Year2020
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- ConditionNew
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- DimensionsH 20.24 in. x W 19.5 in. x D 1 in.H 51.41 cm x W 49.53 cm x D 2.54 cm
- Gallery LocationHouston, TX
- Reference NumberLU130925934092
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