Juliana Huxtable

Untitled (Psychosocial Stuntin')

Maker

Juliana Huxtable (American, b. 1987 in Bryant-Station, Texas)

Title

Untitled (Psychosocial Stuntin')
from the series *Universal Crop Tops for All the Self Canonized Saints of Becoming*

Year

2015

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

101.6 x 76.2 cm (40 x 30 inches)

Identification

Edition

2/3

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Judy and Robert Mann

Object Number

2021.133.1

Type

Exhibition History

The Performative Self-Portrait
May 13, 2023 – Nov 12, 2023

Label copy

Looking defiantly at the camera while set in a surreal landscape, Juliana Huxtable has colored her skin purple in this vibrant “self-imagining”—the term she prefers over “self-portrait.” An interdisciplinary and intersex artist, Huxtable looks to the Afrofuturism tradition and responds to her own experiences in her body and the world. As the title of this work suggests, Huxtable is confidently and proudly “stuntin’,” or performing, her racial, gender, and Queer self in defiance of the often narrow and binary cultural understandings of the same.

–Conor Moynihan, assistant curator of prints, drawings, and photographs

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Juliana Huxtable (American, b. 1987 in Bryant-Station, Texas)
Untitled (Psychosocial Stuntin'); from the series *Universal Crop Tops for All the Self Canonized Saints of Becoming*, 2015
Color inkjet print
101.6 x 76.2 cm (40 x 30 inches)
Gift of Judy and Robert Mann 2021.133.1

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