Casey Kaplan
Amanda Williams’s Color(ed) Theory (2014-2020) is included in Dwell Magazine’s “The 25 Most Important Homes of the Past 25 Years”.
“By painting empty houses slated for demolition on Chicago’s South Side, artist Amanda Williams turned these buildings into bold but ambiguous statements. She chose colors from brands marketed toward Black Americans to highlight the disinvestment and discrimination undermining the area’s neighborhoods and many others like them across the United States.”