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Rainbow Bridge, 2007

Acrylic and gouache on paper board

10" x 10.25" x 1.5"

Emerging from Huffman's lifelong interest in science fiction, formalist abstraction, and social justice movements, the "Traumanauts" are futuristic beings that travel the galaxy in constant search for home. Huffman began developing the series characters, symbols, and narrative in the 1990s. Combining his notable abstract, gestural style with a decidedly figurative focus, these works present an imagined and safe interstitial space that plays between these aesthetics.

Rainbow Bridge explores an Afrofuturistic landscape disrupting the canon of historical narrative painting with otherworldly horizons. Here, the Traumanat is Jimi Hendrix riffing on his guitar, which churns technicolor waves. The work's title references Jimi Hendrix's posthumously published 1971 album of the same name.

Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco