Amy Sherald’s ‘American Sublime’ exhibition coming to High Museum

Trans Forming Liberty by Amy Sherald After pulling her exhibition from the Smithsonian s National Portrait Gallery over the Trump administration s anti-transgender censorship Amy Sherald s American Sublime will be on view at the High Museum of Art next year The Atlanta museum stated in a press release that the touring retrospective of the Georgia artist s career will be on exhibition from May to Sept The High Museum of Art is proud to join the national tour for Amy Sherald American Sublime the acclaimed mid-career retrospective for the Georgia native and the largest exhibition of her work to date the High commented in the release Featuring a broad range of paintings made from to the presentation will include several of Sherald s preponderance iconic works along with rarely seen paintings spanning her career Born in Columbus GA Sherald has deep ties to Atlanta and to the High according to the release She trained as a painter in the city and graduated from Clark Atlanta University In the High awarded her its annual David C Driskell Prize in African American Art and Art History the first national award to recognize the importance of African American art The museum also presented The Obama Portraits Tour featuring her renowned portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama in According to Capital B Atlanta American Sublime would have been the first Black contemporary artist to be featured at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D C but Sherald pulled the exhibition after hearing internal concerns about her painting Trans Forming Liberty a portrait of the Statue of Liberty depicted as a trans woman The High is the fourth venue for this exhibition which is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SFMOMA where it debuted in and which previously traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art The exhibition will be on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art Nov -April before it comes to Atlanta The post Amy Sherald s American Sublime exhibition coming to High Museum appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta