#amysherald

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SOVEREIGN SIGHT

9" X12"

by

Jaevonn Harris™

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⚖🎨#ArtIsAWeapon Today, March 13, 2023, marks 3 years since #BreonnaTaylor was killed by @lmpd.ky. • Today I'm thinking of her family, friends and community, thanking those who continue the fight seeking #JusticeForBreonna, and speaking her name. Breonna should still be alive 💔 and the officers who killed her should have been charged with shooting her. Meanwhile, on March 8, 2023, the @thejusticedept "Finds Civil Rights Violations by the Louisville Metro Police Department and Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government" (repost): "Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department announced today that the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) and the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government (Louisville Metro) engage in a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the U.S. Constitution and federal law. The Department also announced that it has entered into an agreement in principle with Louisville Metro and LMPD, which have committed to resolving the department’s findings through a court-enforceable consent decree with an independent monitor, rather than contested litigation. Specifically, the Justice Department finds that LMPD: • Uses excessive force, including unjustified neck restraints and the unreasonable use of police dogs and tasers; • Conducts searches based on invalid warrants; • Unlawfully executes search warrants without knocking and announcing; • Unlawfully stops, searches, detains, and arrests people during street enforcement activities, including traffic and pedestrian stops; • Unlawfully discriminates against Black people in its enforcement activities; • Violates the rights of people engaged in protected free speech critical of policing; and • Along with Louisville Metro, discriminates against people with behavioral health disabilities when responding to them in crisis." Full report: www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-finds-civil-rights-violations-louisville-metro-police-department-and 🖼Portrait of Breonna Taylor, 2020 by artist #AmySherald @asherald, commissioned for @vanityfair, collection of the @nmaahc and @speedartmuseum. #SayHerName #BlackLivesMatter (at Louisville, Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpvoTqvgLXP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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"CONFUSION AT ITS FINEST" 15" x 20"

[barkframeworks]

On this, International Women's Day 2023, we celebrate our appreciation of women at Bark Frameworks and beyond! Shown here: an Amy Sherald edition print (untitled) framed for interior designer Robert Stilin. The frame is a stem design by Christine Heindl, milled in maple and sprayed white to match Rising Warm White mat and fillets. #womensday2023 #internationalwomensday #womenshistorymonth #amysherald #americanart #contemporaryart #womenartists #blackartists (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpiagUALbjk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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FYI, painting lovers: we're going to keep posting about this book because we love it too. ⁠ ⁠ 'The World We Make' is the first comprehensive monograph on acclaimed painter @asherald —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 @michelleobama to paint her official portrait for the @smithsoniannpg 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 @hauserwirth 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.⁠ ⁠ Read more about the book via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ @asherald #amysherald #amysheraldtheworldwemake #theworldwemake @jennisorkin #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #michelleobamaportrait https://www.instagram.com/p/CpDZRAUOVdN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Amy Sherald, Grand Dame Queenie, 2012

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, © Amy Sherald #amysherald #womenpainters

[greatartinuglyrooms]

Amy Sherald, "If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it", 2019

[barbarapicci]

“Precious jewels by the sea” by #AmySherald More info at: https://barbarapicci.com/2022/11/08/precious-jewels-by-the-sea-by-amy-sherald/ #painting #pittura #cultureisfreedom #artisfreedom #curiositykilledtheblogger #artblogging #photooftheday #artaddict #artistsoninstagram #amazing #artwork #instacool #instaart #followart #artlover #contemporaryart #artecontemporanea #artmuseum #artcurator #artwatchers #artcollectors #artdealer #arthistory https://www.instagram.com/p/Cks5AhsIf4i/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thombrowneny]

… interview for interview …

a conversation about art between amy sherald and thom browne for interview magazine.

http://bit.ly/3qeKnVG

@asherald @InterviewMag #thombrowne #amysherald #interviewmagazine

[jasonthielke]

Happy International Women’s Day. Portrait of Amy Sherald. . . . #internationalwomensday #amysherald #jasonthielke #portraitartist #denverartist #myart #instaartist #lineart #newcontemporaryart #aart #womeninart #womanartist #blackandwhiteart (at Denver, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMLQfGOFWRf/?igshid=wurmqgwr0jlv

[supportblackart]

Amy Sherald @asherald 🙏🏾 “OUR humanity is bound up in HERS, for we can only be human together.”[sic]~Desmond Tutu 🤍🤍🤍 • @vanityfair Presenting Breonna Taylor for Vanity Fair’s September issue, “The Great Fire.” Five months have passed since police killed Breonna Taylor in her own home, a violent crime that our September issue guest editor Ta-Nehisi Coates ascribes to a belief in Black people as a disaster, as calamity. “I don’t know how else to comprehend the jackboots bashing in Breonna Taylor’s door and spraying her home with bullets, except the belief that they were fighting some Great Fire—demonic, unnatural, inhuman.” Coates chose the "The Great Fire" as the theme for the issue, which assembles activists, artists, and writers to offer a portrait of hope in a world where the possibility of a legitimate anti-racist majority is emerging for the first time in American history. “Something is happening,” writes @tanehisipcoates, “and I think to understand it, we must better understand the nature of this Great Fire.” For his cover story, Coates tells Breonna’s story through the words of her mother. Also in the issue: an oral history of the historic days after George Floyd's death; a portfolio of creatives and visionaries who capture the spirit—and urgency—of the moment; director @ava DuVernay's conversation with revolutionary Angela Davis; and much more. Read “The Great Fire” at the link in @vanityfair’s bio now. Painting by Amy Sherald (@asherald). - Check out the link in our bio to see actions you can take to support efforts to hold Breonna Taylor’s killers accountable. #SupportBlackArt #AmySherald #BreonnaTaylor #WeAreStillSayingYourName #SayHerName https://www.instagram.com/p/CEWoDANBPzO/?igshid=1mho0k1c8qbzr

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🎨#ArtIsAWeapon @cultured_mag featured fearless artist @asherald and master musician @jonbatiste for its Winter 2024 Artists on Artists issue. Photo by @danascruggs.

Image and caption reposted from @cultured_mag This winter, CULTURED presents our inaugural Artists on Artists issue. An ode to unfettered creativity, bold experimentation, and collaboration, this edition includes a trio of cover conversations between figures—from filmmakers to painters and musicians—who are committed to illuminating our strange, uncertain moment...

It’s been a busy year for the history-making painter and musician. Amy Sherald just opened “American Sublime,” her mid-career survey and largest exhibition yet, at the @sfmoma; while Jon Batiste returned to his classical roots with his recent album “Beethoven Blues,” which presents modern renditions of the canonical composer’s works.

Despite their sweeping impacts on contemporary culture, both artists—shot by @danascruggs in Sherald’s New Jersey studio—are careful to protect the delicate filament, that “pure thing,” at the heart of their work. “When you’re in that flow state, sometimes you forget how you got to the end result. I feel like a vessel. I work hard so I can then be in the moment like a kid,” Batiste tells Sherald. “It’s like a trance,” the painter adds. “The ideas come, and I do what I’m told.”

To read the full conversation between Amy Sherald and Jon Batiste and [order] your copy of the Artists on Artists issue, head to the link in bio.

Amy wears a dress by @gabrielahearst, earrings by @davidyurman, and bracelets and a ring by @vancleefarpels. Jon wears a suit, shirt, and tie by @ysl; ring by @cartier; and shoes by @louboutinworld. Additional jewelry is musician’s own.

Editor-in-Chief: @sarahgharrelson

Photography: @danascruggs

Styling for Amy Sherald: @carlocatastrophe

Styling for Jon Batiste: @jasonrembert

Casting for Batiste: @specialprojectsmedia

Hair for Sherald: @myssmonique

Hair for Batiste: Jenna Robinson

Makeup for Sherald: @laramiemakeup with @dayone__studio

Grooming for Batiste: Jesse Lindholm

Production: @missdionnenyc

#AmySherald #JonBatiste #BlackArtists #CulturedMagazine #BlackGirlArtGeeks

[impermanent-art]

Five-story mural by Amy Sherald in Philadelphia. Painted summer 2019 with support from Mural Arts. Portrayed is North Philly resident Najee Spencer-Young.

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Hot book alert! 'Amy Sherald: The World We Make' is NEW from @hauserwirth This stunning 196-page hardcover is the first major monograph on the renowned portraitist, who has said that her eyes "search for people who are and who have the kind of light that provides the present and the future with hope." ⁠ ⁠ Certainly, after the monumental challenges of the past few years—in America, and around the world—more of this direct, recognizable kind of hope is what we want and need. ⁠ ⁠ In his essay, "In Praise of Mere Beauty," Kevin Quashie takes the impact of Sherald's work further: "Amy Sherald’s work insists on mere beauty, a quiet, pulsing, just-there beauty. In advancing this phrase, I write in acknowledgment of Sherald’s artistic fineness, to praise her virtuosic skill as well as to gesture toward the sheer impact of encountering frame after frame of blackness: mere beauty as a proxy toward mere being, which has its own politic. Indeed, the very idea of mere beauty as idiom for viewing blackness responds to the world’s incapacity to appreciate blackness exactly that way. For me, a black viewer, there is something magical enacted in looking at this mere beauty, where I am saturated by seeing and not seeing myself, this process of abstracting and of multiplying that is at play in all art, even as the terms of antiblackness would seek to reduce black art—and black encounters with black art—to a lesser intelligence. Again, Amy Sherald’s aesthetic is one of mere beauty—a dynamic ordinary rendering of an approximation of a moment of life, a capable quality of light for such rendering, an invitation to try to behold blackness presented in such exquisite color."⁠ ⁠ Text by Jenni Sorkin, Kevin Quashie. Interview by Ta-Nehisi Coates.⁠ ⁠ Read more about the book via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ @asherald #amysherald #amysheraldtheworldwemake #theworldwemake @jennisorkin https://www.instagram.com/p/CnhdkNrOgVr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Simone Leigh, Lorna Simpson

and Amy Sherald

Photo by ADRIENNE RAQUEL @adrienneraquel

Simone Leigh

www.hauserwirth.com/artists/28363-simone-leigh

instagram.com/simoneyvetteleigh

Simone Leigh (born 1967) is an USAmerican artist. She works in various media including sculpture, installations, video, performance, and social practice.

Leigh has described her work as auto-ethnographic, and her interests include #Africanart and vernacular objects, performance, and feminism. Her work is concerned with the marginalization of #womenofcolor and reframes their experience as central to society.

Leigh has often said that her work is focused on “Black female subjectivity,” with an interest in complex interplays between various strands of history. Via Wikipedia

Lorna Simpson www.lsimpsonstudio.com

www.instagram.com/lornasimpson/

Lorna Simpson (1960) is an USAmerican photographer and multimedia artist. She came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal.

Simpson is most well-known for her work in conceptual photography. Her works have been included in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally. She is best known for her photo-text installations, photo-collages, and films. Her early work raised questions about the nature of representation, identity, gender, race and history.

Amy Sherald www.amysherald.com

www.instagram.com/asherald

Amy Sherald (1973) is an USAmerican painter. She works mostly as a portraitist depicting #AfricanAmericans in everyday settings.

Her style is simplified realism, involving staged photographs of her subjects.

Since 2012, her work has used grisaille to portray skin tones, a choice she describes as intended to challenge conventions about skin color and race.

#SimoneLeigh #simoneyvetteleigh #AmySherald #LornaSimpson #womensart #artbyblackwomen #blackwomensart #blackherstory #palianshow #blackartherstory #contemporaryartists