The Wonder of Amy Sherald

The Wonder of Amy Sherald

Ordinary Black life is extraordinary in the artist’s first major mid-career museum survey.  By Rebecca Carroll Last month, The New Yorker featured a breathtaking portrait on its cover by celebrated Black American artist Amy Sherald. First painted in 2014 and titled “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance),” the portrait of a young Black woman wearing a bright red hat is the same piece Sherald later submitted in a competition at the National P…