#amysherald

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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

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SOVEREIGN SIGHT

9" X12"

by

Jaevonn Harris™

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"CONFUSION AT ITS FINEST" 15" x 20"

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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

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Jean Michel Basquiat - Painter

Born: December 22, 1960, Brooklyn, New York, NY

Died: August 12, 1988, Great Jones Street, New York, NY

Notable paintings include 

Riding with Death 1988

Hollywood Africans  1983

Untitled (1982)

* A painting that sold for $110.5 million at auction in 2017. This was the highest price ever paid for an American artist's work at auction at the time. 

Basquiat is considered a cultural icon being influential in  Contemporary art, Graffitti, Hip-Hop,  Neo-expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, and Primitivism
Quotes:

“I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.”

“I'm not a real person. I'm a legend.”

“The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.”

“I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.”

“I am not a black artist, I am an artist.”

 Basquiat's work explores the effects of power structures, identity, race, and politics,  including references to popular culture and art history and remixing those concepts together making an explosive gestural apparatus for dialogue

#art #artist #africanamerican #africanamericanhistory #arthistory #contemporaryart #amysherald #americanhistory #blackart #blackartist #blackarthistory #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth

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

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“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=

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… 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

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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

Artist @asherald 's "Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)" is this week's @newyorkermag cover. I am so excited that her traveling exhibition "Amy Sherald: American Sublime" lands in #NYC at the @whitneymuseum on April 9!

Image & caption reposted from @newyorkermag The cover of this week’s Spring Style & Design issue is “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance),” by Amy Sherald (@asherald). Read the full cover story:

Images & caption reposted from @hyperallergic A sweeping exhibition of works by the acclaimed American #painter #AmySherald, best known for her portraits of former First Lady Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, is coming to New York City this spring. Nearly 50 portraits of Black Americans will go on display as part of “Amy Sherald: American Sublime” at the Whitney Museum of American Art from April 9 through August 10. The mid-career survey is the artist’s first solo exhibition in a New York museum.

Spanning works from 2007 to the present, the show will explore Sherald’s signature figures rendered with skin tones in shades of gray and colorful clothing against vibrant backgrounds, merging black-and-white photography aesthetics and American Realist painting traditions to redress art history’s long exclusion of Black subjects in portraiture.

Read the story by Hyperallergic Staff Writer @mayapontone:

1 - Amy Sherald, “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)” (2014) (© Amy Sherald, photo by Joseph Hyde; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth)

2 - Amy Sherald, “Breonna Taylor” (2020) (© Amy Sherald)

3 - Amy Sherald, “They Call Me Redbone, but I’d Rather Be Strawberry Shortcake” (2009) (© Amy Sherald, photograph by Ryan Stevenson; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth)

4 - Amy Sherald, “For Love, and for country” (2022) (© Amy Sherald, photo by Joseph Hyde; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth)

5 - Amy Sherald, “Saint Woman” (2015) (© Amy Sherald, photo by Joseph Hyde; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth)

6 - Amy Sherald, “If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it” (2019) (© Amy Sherald)

#AmySherald #Portrait #BlackArtists #BlackGirlArtGeeks

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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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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

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Real easy on the eyes #AMYSHERALD 💕 https://www.instagram.com/p/B48bb9XBKj7/?igshid=17n2oanzqz3la

[windycitylibrarian]

When you're in #washingtondc for the @americanlibraryassociation annual conference, you visit the @smithsoniannpg and make a beeline to the #amysherald portrait of @michelleobama. #michelleobamaportrait #alaannual #visitwashingtondc #portrait #art #smithsonianmuseum https://www.instagram.com/p/BzA_hPelI4f/?igshid=om4d8mwnqjr0