‘American sublime’ by artist Amy Sherald

 ‘American sublime’ by artist Amy Sherald. A truly evocative, powerful  and compelling call for a revisioning and rewriting  of American history to include its black history. The Big Apple keeps us taking a bite that inspires despite the overwhelming sense of a city and a country that has yet to come to terms with its diversity, inequality and injustice.       

‘Amy Sherald is a storyteller. She creates precisely crafted narratives of American life, selecting, styling, and photographing her sitters as the foundation for her nuanced paintings. 

Thus, while Sherald (b. 1973; Columbus, Georgia) bases her works on specific people, they are more than traditional portraits. They center everyday Black Americans, compelling in their individuality and extraordinary in their ordinariness, inviting viewers to step into Sherald’s imagined worlds.