Fort Worth, Texas, artist Sedrick Huckaby is answering that question through a solo showcase of works completed during a 2012 artistic project. In addition to the art, these are stories worth telling.

Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in New York City is pleased to currently be hosting a solo exhibition of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints by Fort Worth artist Sedrick Huckaby. Titled “The 99%,” the exhibition is composed of works created in 2012 during a project under the same name.

“Huckaby’s goal, in the drawings, prints, and paintings, was to represent the voice of a community not traditionally imaged in portraiture” the gallery reports. “He considered the totality of his project to be like a quilt, so that these individual voices were heard as one unified community. Family quilts have, additionally, been an important motif for Huckaby. While drawing his friends and acquaintances, Huckaby transcribed sentences and phrases from their conversations into handwritten notes on the sheets. Huckaby looks at the individual as a way of talking about the community.”

To learn more, visit Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects.

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I can already feel it now: the blissful warmth of the sun blankets my face on a beautiful summer day. Maybe I’m on a beach, by a pool, or simply enjoying the backyard. However you enjoy the warmer months of the year, those thoughts may surface after seeing this show.

Massey Lyuben Gallery in New York City is currently enjoying the rays of color and light via painter Ayline Olukman during “Kissing the Sun,” a solo exhibition. On view now through April 29, “Kissing the Sun” features a number of recent works by Olukman that call our attention to “a celebration and nostalgia for the ephemerality of summer — how fragile, how precious — the relationship between what we feel and the elements,” the gallery suggests. “The air glitters and time dilates, full of promise, with equal parts anticipation and languor. The sensation of water enveloping the body and the heaviness of the air slide us into a relaxed apathy, an exchange and fusion of elements sating and stoking desire at the same time.”

With a description like that, who would want to miss this show? Regardless, the pictures by Olukman are gorgeous and skillfully executed independent of the feelings or memories they might evoke. Olukman is a native of Strasbourg, France, and a graduate from L’École des Arts Decoratifs in Strasbourg in 2005; this will be the artist’s first exhibition with Massey Lyuben.

To learn more, visit Massey Lyuben Gallery.

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A stunning array of works by the best painters of the Hudson River School compose a wonderful exhibition in our nation’s Midwest. Hurry up, however, as it’s only on view for a few more weeks! Details here!

The Wichita Art Museum in Kansas has an amazing exhibition on view through April 30. Titled “The Poetry of Nature,” the show features an impressive number of masterpieces from the Hudson River School of artists, including paintings by (among others) Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, John Kensett, and Albert Bierstadt. The paintings are on loan from the New York Historical Society and “reflect some of the prized examples from this landmark moment in American art,” the museum writes.

“The Hudson River School is pivotal in American cultural history, because the art represents the first formulation of a specifically American artistic expression. The group rose to eminence during the first half of the 19th century, as this circle of artists — together with like-minded poets and writers — forged a self-consciously American landscape vision and literary voice. They were grounded in the natural world as a resource for spiritual renewal and as an expression of cultural and national identity. The pristine, virgin forest — wild and untamed by civilization — served as a rich metaphor for American democracy and the New World. As the school emerged and rose to prominence, the Hudson River along with the Catskill, Adirondack, and White mountains provided the early subjects for their ambitious landscape paintings.”

To learn more, visit The Wichita Art Museum.

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A body of fine drawings by Dan Thompson will beautify the walls of this Southern institution this spring. Find out when and where here!

The Southern Atelier: A Center of Fine Art in Sarasota, Florida, will soon open a can’t-miss solo exhibition of recent drawings by Dan Thompson. Beginning tomorrow, March 31, and running through April, the show will encourage viewers to “see with your own eyes an artist’s dialogue and communication with his sitter in expressive, original, figurative drawings,” the center says. “This will be the first time a collection of Dan Thompson’s art works will be on display in Sarasota, Florida.”

An opening reception will be hosted at the center tomorrow evening at 6 p.m. “The evening of creative energy will also include a Literary Arts reflection, a spoken word performance, live music, refreshments and drinks,” the center continues. “We will also be discussing the answers to what makes collecting fine art worthwhile in today’s era.”

To learn more, visit the center here.

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Contemporary painter Daniel Sprick is currently showcasing a number of recent works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ranging from extraordinarily realistic portraits to haunting still lifes and beyond, there’s something here for every fine art connoisseur.

The artworks of Daniel Sprick represent some of the best contemporary realism and imaginative realism have to offer. Blending modern psychological and human experiences with traditional techniques, Sprick is on the cutting edge of fine art in the 21st century.

Featuring stunning new works at Peters Projects in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the show offers a range of interesting subjects, including hyper-realistic portraiture, still life, and urban landscape. Via the gallery, “There is a tension at play in his work as he explores the dichotomy between realism and abstraction, beauty and grit, tradition and experiment, planned and improvised. He exhibits extraordinary attention to detail, but then by leaving an unfinished edge or a sweeping gestural brushstroke, he reminds us that these are, after all, still paintings.”

“Daniel Sprick: Recent Works” opened on March 24 and will be on view through May 13. To learn more, visit Gerald Peters Gallery.

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An established Santa Fe gallery has recently mounted a riveting retrospective highlighting the incredible life and career of Robert Daughters (1929-2013). Travel through the decades via the creative vision of this accomplished painter.

Meyer Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is proud to be presenting a collection of special paintings by the late Robert Daughters (1929-2013) in hopes that it will eventually lead to a larger, more comprehensive museum retrospective. Intending to span the artist’s entire career, the gallery is currently seeking to borrow and/or purchase Daughters’ works to move closer to its goal.

Via the gallery, “In the gallery’s continuing effort to honor and represent Robert Daughters, we employ your help. The gallery has always wanted to curate a museum show for the artist. It would be an honor and privilege to head such an effort. An exhibition of this sort would require access to many of the pieces Meyer Gallery sold over the years. This is where we need your assistance. If possible, please send an image of any Robert Daughters original artwork from your collection to the gallery’s e-mail to be considered for the future museum exhibition.

“And to our collectors who are downsizing and need to sell their artwork, Meyer Gallery is your best choice for Robert Daughters resale. We continue to maintain brisk sales for the artist’s secondary market works. Opening 52 years ago in Park City, and with the Santa Fe gallery celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2017 — a combined 82 years as art specialists — Meyer Gallery is the destination for discerning collectors.”

To learn more, visit Meyer Gallery.

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