99% NO.21 Bert Long I look to the Renaissance

I look to the Renaissance as the artists of that time looked back to early Greek and Roman art—not as a reactionary but as one who rediscovers and reapplies important but forgotten visual stimuli

I began imagining and imaging the anonymous faces of the children that did not arrive in Portobelo on those slavers—Los Desaparecidos

His best hope is that the viewer will simply think less

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99% NO.21 Bert Long I look to the RenaissanceSedrick 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