Spotlight Talk: Artist Amy Sherald

Amy Sherald celebrates the opening of her focus exhibition at Crystal Bridges with a Spotlight Talk. The artist behind the commissioned portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama, Sherald paints staged narratives and constructed identities, creating portraits of African Americans. She deftly represents the features of each sitter with the masterful craftsmanship of American realism, and her work lends truth and reality to history. “My paintings hold up a mirror to the present and reflect real experiences of blackness today and historically,” she says, “in everyday life and within the historical art canon.”

[sharpartstudio]

I love her work. Listening to this talk is boring.

[KBD-ONE]

I want to see how she paints without a direct photograph reference