EVENTS

Talley Dunn Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of Higher Ground, a solo exhibition, by internationally renowned artist Sedrick Huckaby.  This groundbreaking exhibition is one the most ambitious projects in the gallery’s twenty-five-year history, as Huckaby ‘s artwork transforms three different exhibition spaces at the gallery with painting, sculpture, drawings, and video. Join us for an opening reception with the artist on April 9th from 6pm – 8pm, and an artist talk at 3pm on April 13th. 

Over five years in the making, Higher Ground is a true tour de force by Huckaby, encompassing multiple installations that embrace the artist’s decades’ long connection to community, humanity, struggle, and spirituality.

“I use art as social engagement.  I use it for building up communities, I use it as a way to bring about positive change and to uplift . . .” 

From his grandmother’s kitchen table to the painted portraits of Ms. Opal Lee to the video installation commemorating the 1921 lynching of Mr. Fred Rouse in Fort Worth, Texas to over one hundred painted portraits of the community members of Nacimiento, Mexico and more, Huckaby’s Higher Ground spans generations of personal experience, history, connection, and importance. 

About Sedrick Huckaby

Sedrick Huckaby’s paintings, drawings, and sculpture metaphorically express universal themes of faith, family, community, and heritage. Huckaby focuses on the subjects of quilts and portraits in his quest to glorify everyday people. Huckaby received his BFA from Boston University and his MFA from Yale University. Huckaby is the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship, and American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. Additionally, he is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Elizabeth Greenshield Award, a Davison Family Fellowship from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Elaine De Kooning House Residency and the Art for Change Residency in New Delhi, India. Huckaby’s work has entered the permanent collections of numerous museums and institutions including the American Embassy in Namibia; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Harvard Art Museums; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Nasher Museum at Duke University; National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.; Yale University Art Gallery; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born in 1975, Huckaby lives and works in his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas. He is married to artist Letitia Huckaby and is the father of three children, Rising Sun, Halle Lujah and Rhema Rain Huckaby.