Amy Sherald: Baltimore Guide
Across the exhibition, discover Amy Sherald’s ties to Baltimore through paintings made in the city and works featuring Baltimore-based models.
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Baltimore Guide Map
A Baltimore guide map showing works made in Baltimore or with a Baltimore-based model by Amy Sherald.
She had an inside and an outside now, and suddenly she knew how not to mix them
A Golden Afternoon
Hangman
Freeing herself was one thing, taking ownership of that freed self was another
It Made Sense…Mostly in Her Mind
The Rabbit in the Hat
Well Prepared and Maladjusted
The Boy with the Big Fish
The Boy with No Past
Pilgrimage of the Chameleon
Fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like
They Call Me Redbone, but I’d Rather Be Strawberry Shortcake
The Bathers
Try on dreams until I find one that fits me. They all fit me
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Mother and Child
Planes, Rockets, and the Spaces in Between
Listen, you a wonder. You a city of a woman. You got a geography of your own
What’s different about Alice is that she has the most incisive way of telling the truth
Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama
She Always Believed the Good about Those She Loved
What’s precious inside of him does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence (All American)
A God Blessed Land (Empire of Dirt)
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