99% NO.21 Bert Long These individual symbols are not

These individual symbols are not meant to be some kind of private visual language

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

His best hope is that the viewer will simply think less

the exploration with translucent inks and the process of guiding the image through several stages has enabled the work to articulate a more subtle and more somber presence filtered through layers of color

There is this rich tradition

99% NO.21 Bert Long These individual symbols are notSedrick 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