99% NO.62 Trecie 2013

Curator: Sedrick Huckaby's "99% NO.62 Trecie" captures a seated figure with such immediacy. What is your first reaction to it? Editor: It's striking. Raw, almost unfinished, yet there's a powerful presence. It's intimate. Curator: Huckaby's work often engages with Black identity and the complexities of representation. The rapid linework, the seeming incompleteness, speak to the ongoing nature of self-definition. The title is interesting; "99%" feels like a reference to societal categorizations, perhaps. Editor: Absolutely. And the use of such direct language, "That looks good," printed near the bottom challenges traditional notions of art and its audience, opening up art to the public. Curator: It invites a dialogue, doesn’t it? Between the personal and the political. The sketched quality allows for the figure to be both an individual and a symbol. Editor: Seeing art as this kind of visual dialogue, constantly being redefined and recontextualized – it's what makes these encounters so vital. Curator: Precisely. It really does give food for thought about what art can be. Editor: Indeed, an artwork that encourages that constant reconsideration of our place in the world.