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In sociology, they call it 'code switching.' I can feel just as comfortable in a room full of people who don't look like me because I understand the social cues of class and race.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Because Call Class Code Comfortable Feel Full Just Like Look Me People Race Room Social Sociology Switching Understand Who I Can

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Why can't I make up my own characters and paint the people I want to see in the world? I'm depicting the many people who existed in history but whose presence was never documented.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Characters Depicting Documented Existed History Make Make Up Many My Own Never Own Paint People Presence See Up Want Who Whose Why World

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When I found photography, I found this other kind of portraiture of black families and black people who were photographing themselves or having themselves photographed in ways they wanted to be seen.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Black Families Found Having Kind Other People Photographed Photographing Photography Seen Themselves Wanted Ways Were Who

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I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: American American People Create Paint Paintings People Stories Tell Through

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Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Bigger Complete Lives Longer Model More Once Painting Paintings See Something Symbolic Themselves I See

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I probably shouldn't curse as much as I do.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Curse Much

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I grew up in Georgia, and my mom would tell me how to perform and act. So I learned to repress a lot of myself so that other people would feel comfortable.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Act Comfortable Feel Georgia Grew How Learned Lot Me Mom Myself Other People Perform Tell Up Would

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When I'm painting and in the zone, it's difficult for me to stop. It can take me half a day to get into that space, and once I do, I only talk to a certain few people who won't disrupt it. Home to sleep and back at it, nothing else outside of getting food. Everything else is an annoyance getting in my way.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Annoyance Back Certain Day Difficult Disrupt Else Everything Everything Else Few Few People Food Get Getting Half Home Me Nothing Once Only Outside Painting People Sleep Space Stop Take Talk Way Who Zone

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Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean you're going to make it.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: About Artist Becoming Empirical Going Hard Hard Work Make Mean Put Work You

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I am relieved that I can pay back my school loans.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Am Back Loans Pay Relieved School I Am I Can

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: August 30th, 1973

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