The Amy Sherald SFMOMA show is the artist's largest to date, featuring her Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor paintings.

She completed the homage by giving both models sailor caps. The painting is one of the centerpieces of the exhibition “Amy Sherald: American Sublime,” on view at SFMOMA through March 9.

Throughout the exhibition, Sherald’s visually stunning works pop in bold primary colours. Within them rests hints at the possibility of a paradigm shift and the tools for the transformation of ...

As Sherald’s work has evolved technically and thematically through the 2020s, it increasingly engages with broader cultural conversations about representation.