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Amy Sherald
American
Artist
Born:
Aug 30
,
1973
Art
Me
People
Way
Work
World
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Why can't I make up my own characters and paint the people I want to see in the world? I'm depicting the many people who existed in history but whose presence was never documented.
Amy Sherald
History
People
World
Own
Characters
See
My Own
Never
Make
Documented
Make Up
Existed
Up
Want
Depicting
Paint
Who
Many
Whose
Why
Presence
I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.
Amy Sherald
Space
Blackness
Where
Want
Breathe
Create
Portraits
Success, for me, is staying true to who you are and not deviating off a path.
Amy Sherald
Success
Me
You
Path
Staying
True
Off
Who
It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.
Amy Sherald
Me
People
Find
See
About
Something
Only
Got
Them
Hard
Paint
I thought I was going to die when I was 39.
Amy Sherald
Thought
Die
Going
The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.
Amy Sherald
Me
Had
Over
Artist
Influence
Who
Actually
Art class was my safe haven.
Amy Sherald
Art
Class
Haven
Safe
Safe Haven
I've forgotten a lot of things. I've forgotten how to play the piano and how to speak Arabic, though I studied it for two years.
Amy Sherald
Speak
Though
Arabic
Piano
Studied
How
Years
Lot
Forgotten
Play
Things
Two
I blacked out in a Rite Aid. The doctor told me my heart function was at 5 percent. I spent two months in the hospital waiting to have a transplant. For me, that was the end of the world.
Amy Sherald
Me
Heart
Waiting
Doctor
World
Aid
Months
Spent
Out
Percent
Rite
Hospital
End
End Of The World
Transplant
Function
Two
I paint paintings of people.
Amy Sherald
People
Paint
Paintings
I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.
Amy Sherald
People
Tell
Through
American
Stories
American People
Create
Paint
Paintings
Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.
Amy Sherald
Painting
Complete
Once
See
Something
More
Longer
Model
Bigger
Themselves
Paintings
Lives
Symbolic
I probably shouldn't curse as much as I do.
Amy Sherald
Curse
Much
When I'm painting and in the zone, it's difficult for me to stop. It can take me half a day to get into that space, and once I do, I only talk to a certain few people who won't disrupt it. Home to sleep and back at it, nothing else outside of getting food. Everything else is an annoyance getting in my way.
Amy Sherald
Food
Day
Home
Me
People
Space
Half
Few
Nothing
Painting
Difficult
Else
Back
Everything
Once
Everything Else
Way
Only
Take
Outside
Annoyance
Talk
Get
Few People
Getting
Stop
Certain
Who
Disrupt
Zone
Sleep
My brother dying changed me. I didn't realize how strong I was until I lost my brother.
Amy Sherald
Me
Strong
Lost
Changed
Brother
Until
How
Dying
Realize
I was at all-white schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade, so I wanted to feel what it was like just to be me and not, like, Black Amy.
Amy Sherald
Me
Black
Kindergarten
Feel
Like
Schools
Grade
Just
Wanted
Twelfth
Amy
I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.
Amy Sherald
Small
Wanted
Things
Museums
A lot of the artists that people equate my work to, I didn't find out about until after graduate school.
Amy Sherald
Work
People
School
Out
Find
About
Until
Equate
Lot
Graduate
Graduate School
Artists
After
When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time in Panama.
Amy Sherald
Work
Time
Me
People
Spending
Say
About
Tend
Color
Came
Lot
Ask
Panama
I want all types of people to look at my work and see themselves, just like I watch a Reese Witherspoon movie as a black woman and can empathize with her because we have had to internalize whiteness in that way to survive.
Amy Sherald
Work
Woman
People
Black
Types
Way
See
Had
Empathize
Like
Look
Because
Reese Witherspoon
Survive
Just
Want
Movie
To Survive
Themselves
Whiteness
Internalize
Her
Watch
Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.
Amy Sherald
Truth
Art
Food
Soul
Painting
Way
Someone
Fact
Dead
Because
Said
Just
Just Because
Mean
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