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Amy Sherald: The World We Make

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This is the first comprehensive monograph on acclaimed painter Amy Sherald, whose distinctive style of simplified realist portraiture features African American subjects rendered against colorful monochrome backdrops or in everyday settings. Sherald rose to fame after being chosen by former first lady Michelle Obama to paint her official portrait for the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, in 2018, becoming the first African American woman to receive this honor. In addition to reproductions of Sherald’s recent works, the book―published to accompany her solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London in fall 2022―includes illustrations of earlier paintings, as well as an intimate glimpse into Sherald’s process and practice through a series of in-studio photographs. Newly commissioned texts include an art historical analysis of the artist’s work by Jenni Sorkin; a meditation on the politics and aesthetics of Sherald's portraiture by cultural scholar Kevin Quashie; and a conversation between Sherald and acclaimed author Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Editors' Note

Amy Sherald was born in Georgia in 1973 and received her MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2004. She has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth, the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, among others. Sherald's work is part of The Dean Collection, founded by Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats. Sherald rose to fame after being chosen by first lady Michelle Obama to paint her official portrait for the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, in 2018, becoming the first African American woman to receive this honor. Her painting of the Forever FLOTUS has been viewed by millions and has been the subject of several books.

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This is the first comprehensive monograph on acclaimed painter Amy Sherald, whose distinctive style of simplified realist portraiture features African American subjects rendered against colorful monochrome backdrops or in everyday settings. Sherald rose to fame after being chosen by former first lady Michelle Obama to paint her official portrait for the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, in 2018, becoming the first African American woman to receive this honor. In addition to reproductions of Sherald’s recent works, the book―published to accompany her solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London in fall 2022―includes illustrations of earlier paintings, as well as an intimate glimpse into Sherald’s process and practice through a series of in-studio photographs. Newly commissioned texts include an art historical analysis of the artist’s work by Jenni Sorkin; a meditation on the politics and aesthetics of Sherald's portraiture by cultural scholar Kevin Quashie; and a conversation between Sherald and acclaimed author Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Editors' Note

Amy Sherald was born in Georgia in 1973 and received her MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2004. She has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth, the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, among others. Sherald's work is part of The Dean Collection, founded by Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats. Sherald rose to fame after being chosen by first lady Michelle Obama to paint her official portrait for the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, in 2018, becoming the first African American woman to receive this honor. Her painting of the Forever FLOTUS has been viewed by millions and has been the subject of several books.

Details

This is the first comprehensive monograph on acclaimed painter Amy Sherald, whose distinctive style of simplified realist portraiture features African American subjects rendered against colorful monochrome backdrops or in everyday settings. Sherald rose to fame after being chosen by former first lady Michelle Obama to paint her official portrait for the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, in 2018, becoming the first African American woman to receive this honor. In addition to reproductions of Sherald’s recent works, the book―published to accompany her solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London in fall 2022―includes illustrations of earlier paintings, as well as an intimate glimpse into Sherald’s process and practice through a series of in-studio photographs. Newly commissioned texts include an art historical analysis of the artist’s work by Jenni Sorkin; a meditation on the politics and aesthetics of Sherald's portraiture by cultural scholar Kevin Quashie; and a conversation between Sherald and acclaimed author Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Editors' Note

Amy Sherald was born in Georgia in 1973 and received her MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2004. She has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth, the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, among others. Sherald's work is part of The Dean Collection, founded by Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats. Sherald rose to fame after being chosen by first lady Michelle Obama to paint her official portrait for the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, in 2018, becoming the first African American woman to receive this honor. Her painting of the Forever FLOTUS has been viewed by millions and has been the subject of several books.

 

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"Her style is a simplified realism, worked from photographs that she stages and takes of individuals who interest her, an approach much like that of the late, belatedly celebrated painter Barkley Hendricks...You must—and I mean absolutely have to—see Sherald’s work in person, if at all possible." - Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker

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192 pages

Published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers

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