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Round
Acrylic, gouache and mixed ground on linen
18 x 24 x 3/4 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco
Estimated Retail Value: $18,000
Starting Bid: $10,000
David Huffman is a painter who explores identity, memory, and change through artworks that revel in the current and future experience and excellence of Black culture. Applying his longstanding interest in speculative and science fiction, Huffman creates delightful paintings like Many Rivers, part of his Traumanauts series that depicts Black astronauts exploring the cosmos in search of their origins outside Earth’s constraints.
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David Huffman
Huffman (b. 1963, Berkeley, CA; lives and works in Oakland, CA) studied at the New York Studio School and received his MFA at California College of the Arts & Crafts, San Francisco. He has earned the Eureka Fellowship, ARTADIA San Francisco, Palo Alto Public Arts Commission, and the Barclay Simpson Award. Huffman’s work is in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; LACMA, Los Angeles; Berkeley Art Museum, CA; Studio Museum, Harlem; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Oakland Museum of California; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; San José Museum of Art, CA; Denver Art Museum, CO; and the Embassy of the United States of America, Dakar, Senegal, among others. In 2022, Huffman was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco and has been included in recent group exhibitions at the de Young Museum, San Francisco; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; and Birmingham Museum of Art, AL. Huffman teaches at California College of the Arts.
