{"id":14393,"date":"2013-05-01T06:30:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T14:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=14393"},"modified":"2013-05-01T06:30:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T14:30:31","slug":"im-jealous-of-amy-sherald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/01\/im-jealous-of-amy-sherald\/","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;m jealous of amy sherald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/amysherald.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14394\" title=\"amysherald\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/amysherald.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"2857\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, the stunning portraits of Baltimore based artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amysherald.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Sherald<\/a>&#8230; beautiful, strange, and <em>insanely <\/em>vibrant. To understand where this work comes from, I&#8217;ve got a chunk of Amy&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amysherald.com\/content\/current-statement\" target=\"_blank\">artist statement<\/a> for you to read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The scope of my experiences involving race materialized from my upbringing in the south. While attending private schools and being one of two or three black children, I was raised to be conscious of how I acted, spoke and dressed. This performing aspect of my identity was cultivated from the beginning of my schooling. I learned this was the key to my social acceptance and assimilation. Drawing from these experiences, I am engaging from a personal perspective with the desire to extrapolate meaning on how identity is both constructed and performed within political, social, economic and cultural spheres.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>{Thanks to my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classic-play.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jen<\/a> for reminding me about Amy&#8217;s work &#8211; so good.}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, the stunning portraits of Baltimore based artist\u00a0Amy Sherald&#8230; beautiful, strange, and insanely vibrant. To understand where this work comes from, I&#8217;ve got a chunk of Amy&#8217;s artist statement for you to read: &#8220;The scope of my experiences involving race materialized from my upbringing in the south. While attending private schools and being one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14393"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14413,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14393\/revisions\/14413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}