Juliana Huxtable – Sympathy for the Martyr / Lil’ Marvel

Juliana Huxtable – Sympathy for the Martyr / Lil’ Marvel

In her iconic self-portraits, Juliana Huxtable stages herself both in the poses of kitschy Christian posters akin to those on offer in Harlem bodegas, and as figures from anime and pop culture. Huxtable’s models are for the most part masculine figures, to whom adolescents look up. That they move fluidly among genders, and between analog and digital image production, does more than evoke these childish fantasies – it implies the possibility of their realization.