99% NO.80Sedrick 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

it turned into a sharing the folkloric art of Cascarones to assist others

like the ravens

But it is also the object’s ability to act as a rhizome

and wherever she has landed

move my studio

and even a coffee cup embedded within the picture

Viewers could superimpose these images on the present bay and city because of their location and the transparency of the steel mesh on which they were printed

Over six decades his use of collage as a painterly medium

Along with the figures

that’s using particular colors at their highest level of intensity

combining aspects of Western modernity with African culture

air and water together make steam and fire is present as the source for heat