As we were asking Shawn Huckins questions in regards to his new solo show Zippers Short and Skinny, on view at Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica this month, I was thinking of him in the studio in the Monadnock region of southwestern New Hampshire, the the. beautiful and changing landscape all around. It seems like the perfect setting for re-interpreting and re-imaging the American art form, the American artist. It’s historic and a confliction with history, all within the same works.