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When the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth announced the exhibit Women Painting Women, art fans and artists in my circle collectively rejoiced. In a historically male-dominated field, an all-women show seemed like a revelation. Interestingly, in Fort Worth, women oversee most major arts institutions such as Fort Worth
Amy Sherald plumbs the multitudes of Black leisure in The Great American Fact, a series of arresting portraits that are currently on view at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles. From a woman resting on a bicycle to two surfers readying for the water, the oil-based paintings observe moments of respite and pleasure at a monumental scale, sometimes spanning nearly nine feet across. Although she surrounds her subjects with vivid patches of color and portrays them wearing bright garments, Sherald (previously) continues to render her subjects’ skin in her signature grayscale, which she’s described in r...