Introducing Amy Sherald
African-American Visual Artist
Amy Sherald is well known for using a grayscale to paint
skin tones as a way of challenging the concept of color-as-race. Painting
figures with impossibly colored flesh allowed her to explore the stories
that had never been told, with subjects ― both real and imagined and
sometimes both ― who diverged from the overarching historical narrative of
blackness.
'These paintings originated as a creation of a fairytale’, she explains in a statement online,
‘illustrating an alternate existence in response to a dominant narrative
of black history’.
