Dafuq? Painting from Shawn Huckins

 Shawn Huckins’s Athenaeum exhibition features a number of recognizable figures and paintings with a layer of current commentary that is familiar to anyone on instagram, snapchat, twitter, imgur, etc. The tension is funny, surprising and sad. 

Thomas Jefferson: Panic Four (Spotty WiFi), 2017. Acrylic

Major John Biddle: Panic Two (Loading Spinner), 2017. Acrylic

Charles Loring Elliot: Panic One (Low Battery), 2017. Acrylic

Evening Glow At Lake Louise: Panic Three (Mac Spinner), 2017. Acrylic

Richard Heber: To Dante, You’re All I Have, Just Please Don't Ever Text Me Again, 2017. Acrylic

Edgar Allan Poe: Sarcasm Noted, 2017. Acrylic

Richard Dana: Zero Fucks Given, 2017. Acrylic

Mrs John Biddle: Delete Me, 2017. Acrylic

Cole’s Cloud Study: The Fuck?, 2017. Acrylic

Bierstadt’s Rocky Mountains (Who Needs The PCA?), 2017. Acrylic

General Henry H Sibley: UGH, 2015. Acrylic

Abraham Lincoln: Pffff, 2017. Acrylic

Midshipman Augustus Brine: You Have No Idea How Much I Love You, I Don’t Know Whatever, 2017. Acrylic

Mrs James Warren: Blah Blah Blah, 2017. Acrylic

George Washington (The Lansdowne Portrait): I Can’t Pretend That This Is Poetry, 2017. Acrylic