Amy Sherald, best known for her portrait of Michelle Obama, is affirmed as one of the most significant American artists of our time in "American Sublime," a Whitney Museum retrospective ...

“Though she has been known for these two moments, Mrs. Obama and Breonna Taylor’s portraits, she has been a working artist for 25 years,” Rujeko Hockley, the show’s curator, said in a press preview at ...

Inspired in large part by two well-known paintings that caused quite a stir at their unveilings, Mark Arts’ current major exhibition focuses on fashion in fine art. “The jumping off point is ...

Amy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait in 2018, has a major survey of her work opening this week at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Wearing a wonderful quiltlike sleeveless maxi dress by designer Michelle Smith ... When she created the Obama portrait, she was 45 years old, living in Baltimore, having only left her waitressing ...

Sherald’s oeuvre so far is singular in its advancement of the American Realist tradition of artists such as Edward Hopper, ...

Falling two years after the completion of Michelle Obama’s portrait, Taylor’s tragic death ... Sherald adorned the young woman in a bright turquoise dress against an aquamarine background ...

In Amy Sherald's unique visual language, muted yet commanding Black subjects are set against bold color fields. These ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Amy Sherald’s official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama was revealed to the ... draped over her shoulders and a printed dress. Pleats below the hip give a jaggy ...

Across nearly 50 artworks spanning the last 18 years, American beauty takes on many forms on Sherald’s canvas. It can appear ...