Dec 1-6
On view at The Deauville are selections from Letitia Huckaby’s Quilts and Dress Project, a self-portraiture and reflection on her family and African-American heritage. This work celebrates connections between past and present, memory and invention, craft traditions, and new ways of seeing.
Huckaby’s artistic career began in documentary photography, but after the loss of her father and grandmother, she became interested in making art that dealt with more personal issues. She produces many works through printing photographic images onto cotton and silk fabrics that are treated to hold pigment prints. She then sews the fabric into quilts, dresses, quilt tops, and other pieces. Some of the artworks on display in this exhibition are from LA19, a series of portraits of family members who lived on or near Louisiana’s state highway number nineteen.
Image: Letitia Huckaby, Looks What a Woman’s Got, 2013, screen-prints on heirloom textiles, 10 feet long x 5 feet deep x 6 feet high. Courtesy of the artist and Liliana Bloch Gallery.