Shawn Huckins: Dorothy Quincy, Don’t You Realize That I Only Text You When I’m Drunk (2012)
This is a work of many layers, the earliest one being a portrait of Dorothy Quincy by American realist painter John Singleton Copley. Quincy was the wife of the first man to sign the Declaration of Independence. So her portrait is also a slice of history, nevermind art history. Shawn Huckins has reproduced this grave …
July 7, 2012