I have a lot to talk about. This might take several days.
My wife and I visited Baltimore to see the Amy Sherald exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Who’s Amy Sherald? She’s the artist who painted the official portrait of Michelle Obama. That painting was included in the exhibit; however, it was not the focus of the exhibit.
The show is called “Amy Sherald: American Sublime.” BMA info is HERE.
My wife and I visited Baltimore to see the Amy Sherald exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Who’s Amy Sherald? She’s the artist who painted the official portrait of Michelle Obama. That painting was included in the exhibit; however, it was not the focus of the exhibit.
The show is called “Amy Sherald: American Sublime.” BMA info is HERE.
| The show was, indeed, sublime, and I would tell you to rush to Baltimore to see it (the exhibit runs through April 5), but alas – tickets are sold out. “American Sublime is a salve. It’s a call to remember our shared humanity and an insistence on being seen,” said Amy Sherald, an artist who considers herself an American Realist in the vein of Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth. The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, was to have hosted the exhibit – the first solo show by a black contemporary artist in 57 years – but they sought to censor one of her works. Sherald withdrew. “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship, especially when it targets vulnerable communities,” she wrote to Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III. For more info, scroll through the seven photos HERE. |  |
The BMA stepped in. The show was organized within two months.
My wife and I LOVED it. It was one of the best art exhibits we’ve seen – and we’ve been to many. Very meaningful. The paintings prompted much introspection. Revelatory inward-looking while (literally) outward-looking. I’m no student of philosophy – is there a term for a unity of opposites? Pushing and pulling. Hoping and dreading. Laughing and crying.
Okay, before I get too far off track, let me return to my opening statement that this might take several days. Why? Take a look at one of the introductory panels from the wall of one of the rooms of paintings; specifically, check out the second paragraph. Don’t worry – I’ve underlined the important detail. LOL.
My wife and I LOVED it. It was one of the best art exhibits we’ve seen – and we’ve been to many. Very meaningful. The paintings prompted much introspection. Revelatory inward-looking while (literally) outward-looking. I’m no student of philosophy – is there a term for a unity of opposites? Pushing and pulling. Hoping and dreading. Laughing and crying.
Okay, before I get too far off track, let me return to my opening statement that this might take several days. Why? Take a look at one of the introductory panels from the wall of one of the rooms of paintings; specifically, check out the second paragraph. Don’t worry – I’ve underlined the important detail. LOL.
 | So there you have it. In the coming days I’ll be sharing pics from the exhibit along with comments from the point of view a Dickinson enthusiast. I’ll start with this piece tomorrow, “Ecclesia (The Meeting of Inheritance and Horizons)."  |
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