Letitia Huckaby

Carita Letitia Huckaby (née Jenkins, born 1972) is an American photographer who creates multimedia artwork combining photography and textiles to depict both family narratives and African American history.[1]

Carita Letitia Huckaby
Born
Carita Letitia Jenkins

1972 (age 50–51)
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Oklahoma
Alma materUniversity of North Texas
Known forPhotography
Websitewww.letitiahuckaby.com

Art

The mixing of materials to reveal historical topics is exemplified by her 2015 Bayou Baroque exhibit honoring the nuns at the Sisters of the Holy Family Mother House in New Orleans, Louisiana. The pieces show nuns photographed in front of bed sheets with intricate floral patterns, presenting black women with the same solemn compositional weight as that shown in older master religious paintings. At the same time, the works echo the flowered backgrounds of Kehinde Wiley’s contemporary portraits, but bring a domestic twist to the flat plains.[2][3]

Huckaby was one of the artists selected by independent curators to participate in the 2013 Texas Biennial, which showcases "the best emerging and established visual artists in Texas."[4]

She has exhibited at the Dallas Contemporary; the Galveston Arts Center in Galveston, Texas; Renaissance Fine Art in Harlem, New York; the McKenna Museum in New Orleans; the Tyler Museum of Art;[5] and the Dallas African-American Museum. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, the Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection at Scripps College in Claremont, California, and the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[6] Her one-woman show "Beautiful Blackness" was exhibited at the new Foto Relevance Gallery in the Houston Museum District in 2020.[7]

Huckaby has also created public art projects, including a piece along the Trinity River in Fort Worth at the 4th Street trailhead, one at the Ella Mae Shamblee Branch library in Fort Worth,[8] and an installation of glass panels at the new Highland Hills Branch Library in Dallas, which reveals silhouettes of community members above the library's main entrance.[9][10]

She has also given public lectures at the Fort Worth Contemporary Arts Center[11] and the Dallas Contemporary.

Biography

Huckaby earned a degree in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma in 1994, a BFA focusing on art photography from the Art Institute of Boston in 2001, and an MFA in photography from the University of North Texas in 2010.[12] She is married to painter Sedrick Huckaby.[13]

References
  1. "Du Chau + Letitia Huckaby". ModernDallas.net. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  2. "Upcoming Exhibitions". ArtLeague Houston. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  3. "Artist Letitia Huckaby explores the history of an African-American convent". ArtsBlog Dallas News. May 10, 2015. Archived from the original on April 1, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  4. Mariani, Anthony (May 24, 2013). "Texas Biennial: Fort Worth Love". Fort Worth Weekly.
  5. "Lagniappe: Works by Letitia Huckaby". Glasstire. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  6. "Upcoming Exhibitions". ArtLeague Houston. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  7. Catherine D. Anspon. "Groundbreaking Houston Art Gallery Makes a Big Move into 4411 Montrose – a PaperCity Exclusive: Foto Relevance Evolves Into a Museum District Force.” Paper City. January 10, 2020, https://www.papercitymag.com/arts/foto-relevance-houston-art-gallery-move-4411-montrose-gallery/
  8. "Letitia Huckaby". Liliana Bloch Gallery. Archived from the original on March 15, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  9. "City to open new Highland Hills Branch Library Saturday". Dallas City Newsroom. October 15, 2014. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  10. City of Dallas Cultural Affairs. "Photography alumni, Letitia Huckaby's public art installation unveiling". Retrieved May 20, 2016.
  11. "Letitia Huckaby – Artist Talk". Places to Go in Fort Worth. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  12. "Letitia & Sedrick Huckaby: Call and Response". Laity Lodge. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  13. Crytzer Pierce, Christy. "Priorities & Persistence: A Conversation with Sedrick and Letitia Huckaby". National Endowment for the Arts.
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