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Letitia Huckaby: Bayou Baroque

Letitia Huckaby - Sister Bertha
Letitia Huckaby: Bayou Baroque
December 9, 2015 – January 9, 2016
Student reception: Wednesday, Dec 9, 6-7pm
Public opening: Saturday, Dec 12, 6-9pm

Kirschman Artspace at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
2800 Chartres
New Orleans, LA 70117
504-940-2800
Gallery Hours: Mon- Fri 9am-12pm


Letitia Huckaby’s “Bayou Baroque” honors the nuns at the Sisters of the Holy Family Mother House in New Orleans, Louisiana: an African-American congregation, founded in 1842 as servants to the youth, the poor and the elderly. Their foundress Henrietta Delille broke with the traditional placage system of colored women being placed as concubines to wealthy white men in New Orleans. Inspired by the spirit of sacrifice and faith in these women, the work in this exhibition embraces a visual vocabulary that evokes old master portraiture.

“I have always been drawn to old master religious paintings, and I wanted to give these pieces the same compositional weight” says Huckaby. “The women were photographed either in front of or silhouetted by bed sheets with intricate floral patterns. Kehinde Wiley’s heroic portraits of the urban male were a huge inspiration for me and I studied his use of pattern, color and pose. Bayou Baroque is my way of honoring these women, their courage, their sacrifice and their faith with my own unique visual vocabulary.”

BIO
Letitia Huckaby holds an MFA in Photography from the University of North Texas, a BFA in Photography from the University of Boston at Lesley and a BA in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma at Norman, Oklahoma. 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, the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the City of Fort Worth at Ella Mae Shamblee Branch Library and the City of Dallas at the Highland Hills Branch Library.

Image:
Sister Bertha
pigment print on fabric, 42 1/2″ x 31 1/2″
2014

Posted on: Oct 15 2015
Posted in: PhotoNOLA 2015, Exhibitions, Bywater, Galleries, December 09, December 12

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