Artist Shawn Huckins: 'The American __tier' Series

Pictured: A view of Shawn Huckins's Denver studio

"I was sort of challenged by my cousin that I couldn't really paint faces, so I started to practice doing the portraits," the gay visual artist explains. "One of my rejected paintings got slipped underneath a tracing paper that had the acronym L-O-L on it. I just thought the contrast was really striking."
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