Award-winning portraitist Amy Sherald has new backing as part of the Creative Artists Agency.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama in 2018 tapped Sherald to do her portrait for the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
“This is not an exhibition of a Black painter who paints Black people—that’s very diminishing,” Sherald said. “This is an ...
National Portrait Gallery unveils official Obama portraits in a ceremony (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) WASHINGTON, DC — The official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama joined the ...
Artist and former longtime Baltimorean Amy Sherald has been applauded by one U.S. president and excoriated by another. If that isn’t a sign that Sherald, a graduate of the Maryland Institute College ...
The portraits were done by acclaimed African-American artists, Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald. "Pretty sharp!" Barack Obama quipped of his portrait, painted by Kehinde Wiley, an artist best known for ...
The groundbreaking portraits of former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama — painted by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, respectively — will go on view at the Brooklyn Museum ...