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Amy Sherald: American Sublime

Amy Sherald: American Sublime

Alexander, Elizabeth
Roberts, Sarah
Calmese, Dario

Hardcover

American Art - African American & BlackGeneral Art

Publisher Price: $45.00

ISBN10: 0300279388
ISBN13: 9780300279382
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Nov 26 2024
Pages: 158
Weight: 2.80
Height: 0.80 Width: 9.70 Depth: 12.20
Language: English
Amy Sherald's work, life, and significance for American art, as revealed in her powerful figurative paintings of Black subjects

The contemporary painter's defining subjects are everyday Black Americans, the 'sublime' buried subtly, but unmistakably, in their everyday gestures.--New York Times Book Review, 10 Giftworthy Visual Books

Bringing together nearly all of her artwork to date, this lavishly illustrated volume situates the work of Amy Sherald (b. 1973) within the context of American realist and figurative painting. Encompassing the full arc of her career, from her poetic early works to the distinctive figure paintings and portraits that have become her hallmark, Amy Sherald: American Sublime unfolds her method of selecting individuals she meets on the street and using facial expression, body language, and clothing choices to create paintings that transcend portraiture and expand the canon of American art. Essays by curators Sarah Roberts and Rhea Combs; poet and writer Elizabeth Alexander; artist Dario Calmese; and renowned scholar Deborah Willis contextualize and illuminate Sherald's creation of a new form of imaginative portraiture. Often depicting her subjects' skin in gray monochrome, surrounded by few markers of place, time, or context beyond the clothes they wear, Sherald challenges the assumption that Black life is inextricably bound with struggle, creating images that engage in more expansive thinking about race and representation and the wide-open possibilities and complexities of every individual. Whether a passerby or the former first lady Michelle Obama, Sherald's subjects are at ease with themselves, the world, and one another.

Published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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