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Amy Sherald: The World We Make

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Thomas J Price (born 1981) is a British artist who works across disciplines, predominantly in sculpture, but also in film and photography. Conceptually focused, Price engages with issues of power, representation, interpretation and perception both in society and in art. How does portraiture expand how we see and imagine other people and how we see and imagine ourselves?

Sherald considers exhibiting outside the U.S. to be her greatest achievement since the triumph of her Obama portrait, describing it as a lifelong dream. I got the impression, however, that her eyes are already set on the next prize.of masculinity that underlie the work. As Sherald says, 'The tractor and motorbike paintings explore different

This publication – the first widely-available monograph on the work of Amy Sherald – accompanies the artist’s solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London in fall 2022. Instead, Sherald offers her sitters the space to communicate their own, new narratives. In A God Blessed Land (Empire of Dirt) , a farmer looks down at us from up high on his tractor. The composition immediately recalls a long history of predominantly white land ownership being honored and recorded in painting and photography. Vehicles become a literal metaphor here for forward momentum, for movement and potential movement'. InIn this exhibition, Sherald plays with traditional American symbology through the portrayal of vehicles such Travelling from the artist's major exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in London, her first solo show in Europe, a selection

farm paintings from the 19th Century which reinforced notions of American identity. Here, Sherald reflects heterosexual people within the US military in recent history. The photograph prompted Sherald to think of the photograph 'V-J Day in Times Square' (1945) by Alfred Eisenstaedt showing a US Navy sailor kissing a woman of new and monumental works by Amy Sherald will be on display at the gallery in Monaco. Amy Sherald, one You see why she got the job. Amy Sherald, 49, is best known outside the art world as Michelle Obama’s portraitist. That official picture, in which the former US First Lady looks proud but wary, remains in the Smithsonian in Washington DC. But here at Hauser & Wirth in London, you can instead see a new set of paintings that flaunt their creator’s formidable skill. Even in a city full of exhibitions – Frieze Week has flooded Mayfair with prestigious artistic wares – Sherald’s first solo show in Europe looks to be one of the very best.As Sherald says, 'the works reflect a desire to record life as I see it and as I feel it. My eyes search for people who

that have become landmarks in the grand tradition of social portraiture–a tradition that for too long excluded How does reframing historical moments through portraiture help to interrogate history, as well as reimagine present and future moments? painting, Sherald also seeks to honour the legacy of farming in a world where new technologies are favoured.

A God Blessed Land (Empire of Dirt)' (2022) depicts a man proudly atop his tractor and references traditional Hauser & Wirth Publishers. Newly commissioned texts include an art historical analysis of Sherald's work expressions of self-sovereignty in our communities, and how these expressions might carry into the future. line with this sentiment, Sherald is interested in the idea articulated by artist Alice Neel that 'art is two things:

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