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Eight of Amy Sherald’s vivid, skillfully rendered portraits are on view at Hauser & Wirth through October 26.
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View Precious jewels by the sea, 2019 by Amy Sherald at Hauser & Wirth in Hong Kong. Discover more artworks by Amy Sherald on Ocula now.
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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 monumental scale, sometimes spanning nearly nine feet across. Although she surrounds her subjects with vivid patches of color and portrays them wearing bright garments, Sherald…
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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…
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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.
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Where does a masterful painter, a portraitist, go after painting the portrait of a First Lady? The answer is in Amy Sheralds grasping, intimate, and serene paintings of subjects she pulls from the crux of life, grasping the heart of the matter in each model.
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In her first major exhibition outside of the U.S., artist Amy Sherald (previously) presents a body of work that’s distinctly American. The World We Make, which is now on view, brings Sherald’s signature grisaille portraiture to Hauser & Wirth London. Monumental in scale and primarily rendered on flat, monochromatic backdrops, the oil paintings reference a sense of determined optimism to shape reality. “The works reflect a desire to record life as I see it and as I feel it. More
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Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser, who were joined in 2000 by Partner and President Marc Payot
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