The Ability of Art to Affirm our Common Humanity

Recording of program - https://youtu.be/uCsjfsGEofI.

Sedrick Huckaby's art metaphorically express universal themes of the Christian faith, family, his local community and the Black American experience. He is known for large scale paintings of quilts and portraits with a pictorial aggression that approaches relief sculpture. After earning a BFA at Boston University in 1997 and an MFA from Yale University in 1999, he participated in a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center residency and traveled the U.S. and Europe studying old master paintings. When he returned to the U.S. Huckaby settled into his home town of Fort Worth, Texas.  Since returning home he has been invited to participate in a number of residencies and fellowships including a Davison Family Fellowship with the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, a Guggenheim Fellowship and, more recently, a Fulbright Fellowship. Huckaby’s work has entered the permanent collections of prestigious national and international institutions including the American Embassy in Namibia; Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; The Yunus Centre in Bangladesh; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the National Portrait Gallery. Huckaby is also the founder and board president of Kinfolk House, a collaborative, non-profit art space in Fort Worth. D-Magazine recently named Kinfolk House as the Best Art Space in the Dallas / Fort Worth Area for 2024. Sedrick is married to artist Letitia Huckaby and is the father of three children, Rising Sun 18, Halle Lujah-16, and Rhema Rain Huckaby-8. Although his work is exhibited broadly, he is represented by the Tally Dunn Gallery in Dallas.