Amy sherald

Amy Sherald’s oil paintings are arresting portraits, absorbing in their choices of palette and mood. Within her works’ titles, we’re given further insight into the personalities of these figures, like “What's Precious Inside Of Him Does Not Care To Be Known By The Mind In Ways That Diminish Its Presence (All American)” and “Try On Dreams Until I Find The One That Fits Me. They All Fit Me.” Yet, these works stand alone as engrossing, vibrant odes to individualism. For a recent show at Monique…

How the new Obama paintings from Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald revitalize the stale power of the portrait.

Amy Sherald's New Mural: Music To The Eye — PHILEBRITY

The celebrated artist’s new L.A. show expands Americana.

Amy Sherald This was my first time seeing Amy Sherald's paintings. No artist "bursts on the scene" they paint away even when no one is paying attention. Yet Sherald became very visible very fast when her portrait of the Michelle Obama was unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery. Sherald's show at Hauser $ Wirth last month was gorgeous and I came a way with a couple of important geeky painter insights. She can really paint curly hair! That's not easy and its frequently avoided but her…

From Hauser & Wirth, Amy Sherald, Pythagore (2016), Oil on Canvas, 54 × 43 in

AMY SHERALD with Osman Can Yerebakan – The Brooklyn Rail

Amy Sherald gained national fame this week with her portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama. But she has been a rising star out of Baltimore for years. Read about the unveiling of her portrait…

Amy Sherald

The Boy With No Past | Amy Sherald

Amy Sherald plumbs the multitudes of Black leisure in The Great American Fact, a series of arresting portraits that are currently on view at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles. From a woman resting on a bicycle to two surfers readying for the water, the oil-based paintings observe moments of respite and pleasure at a monumentalContinue reading "Artist Amy Sherald Depicts a Vast Array of Black Leisure Through Monumental and Nuanced Portraits"

On the heels of the biggest year of her career, the artist is keen to point out that her newfound fame is the result of years of hard work.

Before painter Amy Sherald was grabbing headlines for her National Portrait Gallery rendition of former First Lady Michelle Obama last February, she was a Clark Atlanta University fine art student, who hung out at Ponce de Leon's Eats and Club 112, living in an apartment in Reynoldstown.

New small-scale gouache portraits of black women that pay tribute to womanism.

In April 2018, as interviews with Sherald and features about her continued to stream across headlines, former ART PAPERS Editor and Artistic Director Victoria Camblin spoke with the artist about living and working in not-New York, the power of being mainstream, and how making art is a damn job.

Lexicon is a special exhibition celebrating the artists who have shaped the exhibiting and collecting history of Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art since its founding in 1994. The exhibition will present well-known works by artists in the Museum’s Permanent Collection alongside new and never-before-seen acquisitions from the past five years. New works by artists whose exhibitions have greatly impacted Kemper Museum over the past quarter century will also be added in three stages, transforming…