SAN FRANCISCO — Amy Sherald’s official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama was revealed to the public in 2018, and as it toured the country over the next few years of the first Trump ...

Between these two poles of painterly veracity lies the work of self-described “conceptual portraitist” Amy Sherald (b. 1973), which is currently the subject of a retrospective exhibition at ...

With her signature grisaille tones and vibrant backdrops, the artist presents Black Americans in states of profound humanity, reshaping contemporary portraiture. An installation view of “Amy ...

There’s an incredible exhibit at SF MOMA right now, “Amy Sherald: American Sublime.” If you haven’t seen this collection of almost 50 large-scale portraits of Black Americans in an array ...

Throughout the exhibition, Sherald’s visually stunning works pop in bold primary colours. Within them rests hints at the possibility of a paradigm shift and the tools for the transformation of ...