99% NO.58 AllenSedrick Huckaby'sThe 99% Projectis a part of an installation of 101 lithographic portraits produced at Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia. He began this series by drawing family members and individuals he encountered near his neighborhood. Huckaby focuses less on locale than on the process of engaging with people who might otherwise be marginalized in society. Amidst creating works, he asks his subjects to describe what is most important

and gray tones

The print Virtue Triumphs (When the Devil Sleeps) is a loose reinterpretation of one of my least favorite works in art history

30 x 21 1/2 inches

find common ground

I choose to make an original image for the print so it would have maximum interest and minimum expectations

Painting is a form of prayer and keeps me connected to God

I’m proud to be part of that whole

As an artist my practice gravitates towards immigration and identity issues through art making and activism

My earlier works expressed an evolutionary process with a series of prints in which one print gave rise to the next

negative-acting plates capture the image drawn on mylar or photographic transparency indirectly

and discarded plastic water bottles

org/art/collection/search/633996