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** PRESS PREVIEW
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** AMY SHERALD: AMERICAN SUBLIME
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** HYUNDAI TERRACE COMMISSION: MARINA ZURKOW
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Please join us for the press preview of Amy Sherald: American Sublime.
This program will also highlight the Hyundai Terrace Commission by Marina Zurkow, The River is a Circle, and Marina Zurkow: Parting Worlds, as well as other upcoming presentations at the Whitney, including Mary Heilmann: Long Line and Collection View: Louise Nevelson.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
10 am–2 pm
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street
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Beginning at 10:30 am in the 3rd-Floor Susan and John Hess Family Theater
Scott Rothkopf, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum
Rujeko Hockley, Arnhold Associate Curator
Christiane Paul, Curator of Digital Art
Kim Conaty, Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator
** ABOUT THE EXHIBITIONS
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AMY SHERALD: AMERICAN SUBLIME
American Sublime (https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=0eb9a6fc39&e=59415c6e7e) is the artist’s debut solo exhibition at a New York museum and the most comprehensive showing of her work. Opening to the public on April 9, 2025, American Sublime considers Amy Sherald’s powerful impact on contemporary art and culture, bringing together almost fifty paintings spanning her career from 2007 to the present. This exhibition positions Sherald within the art historical tradition of American realism and figuration. In her paintings, she privileges Black Americans as her subjects, depicting everyday people and foregrounding a population often unseen or underrepresented in art history. The exhibition features early works, never or rarely seen by the public, and new work created specifically for the exhibition, along with iconic portraits of First Lady Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor—two of the most recognizable and significant paintings made by an American artist in recent years.
Sherald places her work within the lineage of American realism and portraiture, alongside artists like Robert Henri, Edward Hopper, Alice Neel, and Andrew Wyeth—all represented in the Whitney Museum’s collection. The early American realists sought to capture the ethos of American places and people. However, there is an evident absence of Black Americans in these representations. Deeply committed to expanding notions of American identity, Sherald’s compositions center her subjects, inviting viewers to meet them eye to eye and empathetically step into their imagined worlds. Employing props and iconography—a tractor, a beach ball, the American flag, a toy pony, or a teacup—the artist crafts universally relatable narratives, illuminating her subjects’ idiosyncrasies and their unique life experiences. By including symbols that resonate with common ideas of American identity and history, these portraits offer a more complete view of the complexity of twenty-first-century American life. The
resulting body of work attests to the multiple facets of American identity, reinforcing Sherald’s profound belief that “images can change the world.”
HYUNDAI TERRACE COMMISSION: MARINA ZURKOW
The Hyundai Terrace Commission by Marina Zurkow, titled The River is a Circle (https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=ecd5cb3067&e=59415c6e7e), features a new site-specific work that engages with the ecologies of the Hudson River and the neighborhood surrounding the Whitney. The software-driven animation presents a view of the Hudson River in a horizontal split between the world above and below the water. The dynamic composition of the animated elements is driven by algorithmic probability and reflects the current weather and season in New York City. The installation extends the underwater environment to the terrace with maritime wreckage and oyster reef balls, devices used to provide habitat for oysters.
** PRESS CONTACT
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For press materials and image requests, please visit our press site at whitney.org/press or contact:
Meghan Ferrucci, Publicist
Whitney Museum of American Art
(212) 671-8346
Hannah Gottlieb-Graham, President & Founder
ALMA Communications
Whitney Press Office
whitney.org/press
(212) 570-3633
** EXHIBITION SUPPORT
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Amy Sherald: American Sublime, is sponsored by
Major support is provided by
Major support is also provided by Judy Hart Angelo, Nancy and Steve Crown, Agnes Gund, the Kapadia Equity Fund, The KHR McNeely Family Foundation | Kevin, Rosemary, and Hannah Rose McNeely, Nancy and Fred Poses, and Anne-Cecilie Engell Speyer and Rob Speyer.
Significant support is provided by Marcia Dunn and Jonathan Sobel, The Holly Peterson Foundation, and Dana Su Lee.
Generous support is provided by Sarah Arison, Alexandre and Lori Chemla, John and Amy Griffin Foundation, Ashley Leeds and Christopher Harland, Deepah Kumaraiah and Sean Dempsey, McCallum Family, Jonathan M. Rozoff, Todd White and Cameron Carani, and an anonymous donor.
Additional support is provided by Suzanne and Bob Cochran, Sheree and Jerry Friedman, Barbara and Michael Gamson, the Girlfriend Fund, Alice and Manu Sareen, Barbara Karp Shuster, and George Wells and Manfred Rantner.
Hyundai Terrace Commission: Marina Zurkow: The River is a Circle is part of a multiyear partnership with Hyundai Motor in support of an annual site-specific installation on the Whitney Museum’s fifth-floor outdoor gallery.
** ABOUT THE WHITNEY
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The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), houses the foremost collection of American art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mrs. Whitney, an early and ardent supporter of modern American art, nurtured groundbreaking artists when audiences were still largely preoccupied with the Old Masters. From her vision arose the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has been championing the most innovative art of the United States for ninety years. The core of the Whitney’s mission is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit American art of our time and serve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture in the United States. Through this mission and a steadfast commitment to artists, the Whitney has long been a powerful force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to help define what is innovative and influential in American art today.
Whitney Museum Land Acknowledgment
The Whitney is located in Lenapehoking, the ancestral homeland of the Lenape. The name Manhattan comes from their word Mannahatta, meaning “island of many hills.” The Museum’s current site is close to land that was a Lenape fishing and planting site called Sapponckanikan (“tobacco field”). The Whitney acknowledges the displacement of this region’s original inhabitants and the Lenape diaspora that exists today.
As a museum of American art in a city with vital and diverse communities of Indigenous people, the Whitney recognizes the historical exclusion of Indigenous artists from its collection and program. The Museum is committed to addressing these erasures and honoring the perspectives of Indigenous artists and communities as we work for a more equitable future. To read more about the Museum’s Land Acknowledgment, visit the Museum’s website (https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=167f434108&e=59415c6e7e) .
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Image Credit:
Amy Sherald, If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it, 2019. Oil on canvas, 130 × 108 × 2 1/2 in. (330.2 × 274.3 × 6.4 cm. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee, Sascha S. Bauer, Jack Cayre, Nancy Carrington Crown, Nancy Poses, Laura Rapp, and Elizabeth Redleaf 2020.148. © Amy Sherald