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The document summarizes an upcoming book on artist Amy Sherald being published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers to accompany Sherald's first solo exhibition in Europe. The book features essays about Sherald's work and an interview with the artist, and reproduces her portraits along with photographs of her studio process.

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HWP - Amy Sherald - Release

The document summarizes an upcoming book on artist Amy Sherald being published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers to accompany Sherald's first solo exhibition in Europe. The book features essays about Sherald's work and an interview with the artist, and reproduces her portraits along with photographs of her studio process.

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Press Release

Book Release: ‘Amy Sherald: The World We Make’

The first substantial monograph on Amy Sherald, one of America’s defining contemporary
portraitists, ‘The World We Make’ provides unique insight into the artist’s work and practice

To be released on 11 October 2022 accompanying the artist’s first solo show in Europe
at Hauser & Wirth, London

This major publication—the first widely-available monograph on Amy Sherald—accompanies the artist’s
exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London in fall 2022, marking Sherald’s first solo show in Europe and her largest
to date with Hauser & Wirth. Significant, newly commissioned texts include an art historical analysis by Jenni
Sorkin, a mediation on the aesthetics and politics of Sherald’s portraiture by Kevin Quashie, and a conversation
between the artist and Ta-Nehisi Coates. Beautifully reproducing Sherald’s recent paintings with an attention to
their poignant details, this publication also illustrates a wide selection of earlier work alongside the essays and
includes a series of in-the-studio photographs by Adam Kremer that provide an intimate glimpse into Sherald’s
process and practice.

Acclaimed for her paintings of Black Americans that have become landmarks in the grand tradition of portraiture,
Sherald renders her subjects in a realist style in everyday settings. In her new body of work, she continues
this practice while confronting the Western—and specifically American—canon through allusions to significant
historic images and themes. In their varying contexts, clothing, expression and positions, the individuals
portrayed all maintain a captivating sense of mystery that draws viewers’ attention to the sitters’ interior life. It
is precisely this interiority that Sherald seeks to portray with the grisaille skin-tones in which she renders her
subjects.
The monumental work ‘For love, and for country’ (2022), which graces the book’s cover, exemplifies Sherald’s
critical approach to Western traditions of portraiture. Recreating Alfred Eisenstaedt’s iconic photograph,
‘V-J Day in Times Square’ (1945), which shows an American sailor kissing a woman in Times Square, New York
City, Sherald replaces the white heterosexual couple with a Black male couple. Subverting the iconic pose, the
artist addresses the fight for queer representation and participation in public space, prompting reflection on the
enduring inequalities and discrimination in the U.S. government and society, more widely.

Extensively illustrated, the book begins with a presentation of new portraits that span nearly 100 pages of
luminous details. Homing in on her subjects’ specific features and exemplifying Sherald’s mastery of vibrant
color, this publication honors her devotion to the particular. Jenni Sorkin’s essay, ‘Stopped in Time,’ situates
Sherald’s oeuvre in art history, addressing the artist’s typical use of grisaille and her investigation of concepts
of representation. Cultural scholar Kevin Quashie’s ‘In Praise of Mere Beauty’ astutely describes modes of
identification at play in Sherald’s extraordinary ability to portray Black bodies. Adam Kremer’s photographic
documentation of Sherald’s studio accompanies the exhibition preparations offering an intimate glimpse into
Sheralds’s daily studio life. Finally, Sherald’s conversation with acclaimed author Ta-Nehisi Coates provides
personal insight into the painter’s creative process, drives, and way of thinking.

About Hauser & Wirth Publishers


Artists’ voices, exceptional art, scholarship, design and bookmaking are at the heart of Hauser & Wirth Publishers’
program, which has been helmed by Michaela Unterdörfer since 2005. Books are critical gateways to new ways
of thinking and seeing; they provide vital, lasting records of artists’ works and ideas and the discourse they
inspire. This is why publishing has been a cornerstone of the gallery’s activity since its founding and why Hauser
& Wirth Publishers has grown to become a leading imprint for unique, object-like books that encourage an
understanding and appreciation of modern and contemporary art. With the special access granted by artists
to their writings and archives, Hauser & Wirth Publishers often brings new and overlooked aspects of an artist’s
creative practice into focus. Our backlist offers a robust program that comprises artists’ books, artists’ writings,
biographies, monographs, surveys, exhibition catalogs and collectors’ perspectives.

Hauser & Wirth’s publishing activity extends back to 1992, from where it steadily flourished through partnerships
with reputable imprints such as Hatje Cantz, JRP|Ringier, Snoeck, Steidl, Thames & Hudson and Yale University
Press, before publishing independently under its own imprint. Based in Zurich and New York City, Hauser &
Wirth Publishers commissions titles that we believe are keystone resources and references related to the artists
represented by the gallery and beyond. Our titles are distributed worldwide via Distributed Art Publishers and
Buchhandlung Walther König.
‘Amy Sherald: The World We Make’
Release date: 11 October 2022
With contributions by Jenni Sorkin, Kevin Quashie and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Book design by Damien Saatdjian
Published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers
English, Hardcover
192 pages, 250 x 300 mm
978-3-906915-72-2
£52 / $55 / €52 / CHF 54 / 450 HKD

For additional information, Caption and courtesy information: Amy Sherald, To tell her story you must
walk in her shoes, 2022
please contact:
Cover: For love, and for country, 2022 © Amy Sherald
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Anna-Maria Pfab Amy Sherald in the studio with Photo: Joseph Hyde
‘For love, and for country’ (2022)
Hauser & Wirth Zurich Stylist: Law Roach
annamariapfab@hauserwirth.com © Amy Sherald
+41 79 965 50 89 (Europe) Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Photo: Kelvin Bulluck

www.hauserwirth.com/publishers
@hauserwirth

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