Sedrick Huckaby Art

Untitled (Big Momma in Profile) Signed by the artist lower right: "Sedrick Huckaby III" Tempera and gesso on book board (Board size) 32 x 20 inches Frame: 40 x 28-1/2" (101.6 x 72.4 cm.) Exhibited: seenUNseen: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection and the Northeast Ohio Response, The Artists Archive of the Western Reserve and The Sculpture Center, September 20-November 19, 2019 Illustrated: seenUNseen: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection and the Northeast Ohio Response, The Artists Archive of the Western Reserve and The Sculpture Center, page 29 A copy of the catalog accompanies this work when purchased Provenance: Valley House Gallery Sedrick Huckaby's large-scale paintings draw inspiration from his family history and his African-American roots. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Mr. Huckaby received his B.F.A. from Boston University in 1997 and his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1999. He has taught as a professor at Tarrant County College in Forth Worth and currently is a professor of water media at the University of Texas in Arlington. Mr. Huckaby has been honored as a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, as a Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellow at the University of Illinois, and as a Brandeis Mortimer Hays Traveling Fellow, which gave him the opportunity to study the works of European masters abroad. His own work has been included in exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, at the African American Museum in Dallas, at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts in Texas, and at the Hammond House Museum in Atlanta. His work A Love Supreme, comprised of pieces forming an 80-foot long painting of quilts...

Big Momma's Still Life #2 Oil pastel on rag paper, 2007 Signed by the artist lower left: "Sedrick Huckaby III" (see photo) Sheet size: 16 x 12 1/8 inches Frame: 28 x 24 inches Exhibi...

Untitled (Letitia, pregnant with Rising Sun) Graphite on paper, 2005 Signed: "Sedrick Huckaby III" lower right (see photo) In April 2008, Huckaby was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship ...

America's Son II (Sonny) Lithograph, 2016 Signed and numbered in pencil From: America's Family II Printer: James Reed at Milestone Graphics Printed on Arches paper Edition: 40, of wh...

This is a three-color photo lithograph Edition of 30 Printed by P.R.I.N.T. (The Print Research Institute of North Texas) at the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas Sign...

America's Mom II (Small Leticia) Lithograph, 2016 Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist Series: America's Family II (Four images) Edition: 40, of which 20 were retained by the ...

Joe "I try to get something accomplished everyday. I ask the Good Lord for Patience and Stregnth" Verso: "I was in for a technical violation. I spent 65 days, but I thank the Lor...

America's Daughter Lithograph, 2016 Signed in pencil lower right Edition: Edition: 40 (15/40) From: America's Family (Five Images) Published by: Valley House Gallery and Sculpture ...

Next Door Neighbor Oil pastel and ink on handmade paper, 2012 Signed vertically lower left in image (see photo) Series: 99% Exhibited: Swarthmore College, List Gallery, Hiden in Pla...

Jazmen Pen and ink on paper, 2013 Signed and titled lower right (see photo) Annotated: “I want to go to Dunbar,…because my friends are there…” Series: The 99% - Highland Hills Exhib...

Untitled (Man at Desk) Pen and ink on paper, 2012 Signed lower right Series: Portraits of Community: Hidden in Plain Sight, 2012 References And Exhibitions: Illustrated: Swarthmore College video for their exhibition "Hidden in Plain Sight," Jan 24- Feb 24, 2013. Born in Fort Worth in 1975, Huckaby has been creating some form of art since his childhood. In 1995, he began his formal art studies at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. After a brief stay he transferred to Boston University, where he received a BFA degree. He then earned a MFA degree from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Huckaby is known for his powerful use of color and his exploration of cultural roles and the heritage of the African American family. His work has evolved from portraiture to objects and interiors that venerate his personal family legacy rooted in Fort Worth, Texas. Portraying these familiar subjects on a large scale and pushing his use of materials, Huckaby defines the significance of family and tradition while touching on the subject of ethnographic stereotypes in our culture. For the past few years he has concentrated his efforts on a series of quilt paintings. One of the series he created is a tribute to both of his Grandmothers and a celebration of the African American quilting tradition. He used the actual quilts sewn by family members as models for his paintings. These quilts document significant events in his family history. According to Huckaby, the paintings represent an artistic family legacy. The colorful, rhythmic abstracted patterns come together like the musical notes in African American musician John Coltrane's famous jazz composition, A Love Supreme, from which the painting series acquired its name. He has earned national acclaim for his work over the past several years. Huckaby has received the 2001 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and the 2004 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant Program Award. More recently, he was the 2008 recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship Award, which allowed him to travel the country and paint African-American quilts from private and public collections. Past Guggenheim Fellowship Award winners include Ansel Adams, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi. He has exhibited at the Resource Center of African American Art in Atlanta, the Danforth Museum in Framingham, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. His work, including a painting titled Study for Little D and the Dollar, in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, can be found in important collections throughout the United States, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Minneapolis Museum of Art. Currently, Huckaby’s 18-by-14-foot oil painting Hidden in Plain Site (2011) is on view in the Amon Carter Museum’s atrium through October. Public Collections: Wichita Falls Museum of Art at Midwestern State University, American Dad African American Museum, Dallas, Texas, Grandmother’s Quilt The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, The 99% - Highland Hills The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, "Girl World" Study for Sustenance Installation Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, Indiana, "The Truth about Hip Hop" Study for Sustenance Installation Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The 99% - Highland Hills City of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, The Welcome Space Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Corporate Aviation, Texas, A Place Between Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Texas, William Madison (Gooseneck Bill) McDonald Fort Worth Central Library, Fort Worth, Texas, Hazel Harvey Peace Portrait Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, Cobby Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, Selection from The 99% Holdworth Center, Austin, TX, Selection from The 99% Jesuit Dallas Museum, Dallas, Texas, “Gone But Not Forgotten: Sha” Kansas African American Museum, Wichita, Kansas, Self Portrait (2) McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, Untitled (Anthony) Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Untitled) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, Enocio Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, Big Momma...

Big Momma's Still Life #2 Oil pastel on rag paper, 2007 Signed by the artist lower left: "Sedrick Huckaby III" (see photo) Sheet size: 16 x 12 1/8 inches Frame: 28 x 24 inches Exhibi...

America's Mom Lithograph, 2016 Signed lower right (see photo) Numbered lower left From: America’s Family (Intended suite of five Images, only four produced) Edition: 40, (20 of which...

Signed in pencil lower right Edition: 40 From: America’s Family (Five Images) Published by Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Dallas, Texas and Thomas French Fine Art, LLC...

Sammy Lee Sleeping II Graphite on sketchbook paper, 2007 Signed by the artist in pencil lower right: "Sedrick Huckaby" (see photo) Condition: Excellent Sheet size: 9 x 12 inches Fram...

Sedrick Huckaby's paintings and works on paper metaphorically express universal themes of faith, family, community, and heritage. Huckaby focuses on the subjects of quilts and portra...