{"id":838,"date":"2025-03-19T19:40:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T20:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/?p=838"},"modified":"2025-03-26T15:46:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:46:57","slug":"a-visit-to-amy-sheralds-studio-revels-in-her-commitment-to-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/a-visit-to-amy-sheralds-studio-revels-in-her-commitment-to-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visit to Amy Sherald\u2019s Studio Revels in Her Commitment to Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"A Visit to Amy Sherald&#8217;s Studio Revels in Her Commitment to Beauty\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sherald-2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>From the studio to her childhood bedroom in Columbus, Georgia, to the museum, a new film from <a href=\"https:\/\/art21.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Art21<\/a> presents a broad portrait of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hauserwirth.com\/artists\/11577-amy-sherald\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amy Sherald<\/a>. The artist is perhaps best known for her depiction of former First Lady Michelle Obama and her signature images of Black Americans rendered in grayscale.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Singular Moments,&#8221; the Art21 team peers into Sherald&#8217;s process and captures the intricacies of creating a work. Reference photos taped to a wall and paint squirted onto white paper plates accompany the artist as she works on her increasingly large-scale canvases.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amy Sherald: Singular Moments | Art21 &quot;Extended Play&quot;\" width=\"832\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tj13mPfwMTw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Sherald frequently paints people she knows, beginning with their faces and eyes before moving on to the rest of their figures. As the title of the film suggests, her focus is on a single moment of beauty. \u201cI think beautiful paintings are important,\u201d she says in the film. \u201cI say figuration is like the soul food of art making. It\u2019s what takes you back home and what you eat when you need comfort, and we all need that at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film comes ahead of Sherald&#8217;s first solo exhibition at a New York museum, <em>American Sublime<\/em>, which will present about 50 works from 2007 to today next month at the <a href=\"https:\/\/whitney.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Whitney Museum of American Art<\/a>. In addition to a visit to the artist&#8217;s parents&#8217; home, filled with grade-school pictures and teenage art projects, viewers also witness the creation of some of her more recent works, particularly those exploring what it means to be an American.<\/p>\n<p>Watch &#8220;Singular Moments&#8221; above, and be sure to read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2023\/08\/interview-amy-sherald\/\">our conversation<\/a> with the artist in which she discusses anxiety and finding respite in her work.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"534\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"reference portraits and sticky notes on a white wall\" class=\"wp-image-452311 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sherald-3-960x534-1.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"531\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"two large scale paintings of men on dirtbikes with yellow scaffolding in front\" class=\"wp-image-452309 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sherald-1-960x531.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\">Colossal Member<\/a> today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2025\/03\/amy-sherald-singular-moments\/\">A Visit to Amy Sherald&#8217;s Studio Revels in Her Commitment to Beauty<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\">Colossal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the studio to her childhood bedroom in Columbus, Georgia, to the museum, a new film from Art21 presents a broad portrait of Amy Sherald. The artist is perhaps best known for her depiction of former First Lady Michelle Obama and her signature images of Black Americans rendered in grayscale. In &#8220;Singular Moments,&#8221; the Art21 <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/a-visit-to-amy-sheralds-studio-revels-in-her-commitment-to-beauty\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}