Introducing Amy Sherald, by Maddie McCarrin

 

Artist: Amy Sherald

Lives in: Baltimore, Maryland

Born: August 30th, 1973 (still alive)

Photo of My Artist:

3 Images of Amy Sherald's Artwork: 

"The Make Believer", 2016, Oil on canvas

"The Bathers", 2015, Oil on canvas

"The Boy With No Past", 2014, Oil on canvas

Amy Sherald tends to create figurative paintings of brightly dressed people with a gray scale sort of tone against a rather flat background. 

Quote: "Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world."

Sources:

https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/30731-amy-sherald-the-great-american-fact

https://www.artsy.net/artist/amy-sherald