99% NO.25 JeromeSedrick Huckaby'sThe 99% Projectis a part of an installation of 101 lithographic portraits produced at Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia. He began this series by drawing family members and individuals he encountered near his neighborhood. Huckaby focuses less on locale than on the process of engaging with people who might otherwise be marginalized in society. Amidst creating works, he asks his subjects to describe what is most important

were displaced and their communities destroyed

simple objects have the mysterious ability to reflect or absorb us

My principal rule is to maintain the millennia-long Chinese civilization in art

Working through a modern approach to engraving

Since the 1980s I have been creating and developing my personal ceremony of art in installations

to assign a person to an ethnic category and all the assumptions that travel with it

Lithograph

and textiles

the focus on farmworkers is the difficult conditions in which they toil for little pay

contemporaneity

how machines are designed and often based on human processes or at least seem to be based in human and natural phenomena

Smith insists that the process comes out of necessity to sturdily adhere fabric together