Amanda Williams, In Her Rich Deposits Of (Blue), 2024, Carver Innovation Blue Casein Paint, New Orleans African American Museum for the Prospect.6 Triennial. Courtesy of Amanda Williams LLC and Tom Harris Photography.
Amanda Williams, In Her Rich Deposits Of (Blue), 2024, Carver Innovation Blue Casein Paint, New Orleans African American Museum for the Prospect.6 Triennial. Courtesy of Amanda Williams LLC and Tom Harris Photography.
What Black Is This You Say?—‘I learned the word monsoon from LL Cool J’—black (06.09.20) v1
2024
Oil, imitation copper leaf, glass beads, mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20" / 50.8 x 50.8cm
What Black Is This You Say?—‘I learned the word monsoon from LL Cool J’—black (06.09.20) v1, 2024 (alternate view)
Monsoon Black I
2024
Oil, glass beads, copper leaf, and mixed media on wood panel
Overall: 34 x 34 x 2.25" / 86.4 x 86.4 x 5.7cm, each panel: 16 x 16" / 40.6 x 40.6cm
Monsoon Black I, 2024 (detail)
“What black is this you say?—‘Your brown is blacker than thou’—black (07.06.20)"
2023
Oil, mixed media on wood panel
60 x 60 x 2" / 152.4 x 152.4 x 5.1cm
“What black is this you say?—‘Your brown is blacker than thou’—black (07.06.20)" (detail)
What black is this you say?— "A west side imma snatch-yo-edges-back-with-a-hand-gesture black"—black (08.27.2020), v1
2023
Oil, mixed media on wood panel
60 x 60 x 2.5" / 152.4 x 152.4 x 6.3cm
What black is this you say?— "A west side imma snatch-yo-edges-back-with-a-hand-gesture black"—black (08.27.2020), v1 (detail)
What black is this you say?— "A west side imma snatch-yo-edges-back-with-a-hand-gesture black"—black (08.27.2020), v1 (alternate view)
What black is this you say?— "A west side imma snatch-yo-edges-back-with-a-hand-gesture black"—black (08.27.2020), v2
2023
Oil, mixed media on wood panel
60 x 60 x 2.5"/ 152.4 x 152.4 x 6.35cm
What black is this you say?— "A west side imma snatch-yo-edges-back-with-a-hand-gesture black"—black (08.27.2020), v2 (detail)
Redefining Redlining, Public Art Installation, Washington Park, Chicago, IL
2022-Present
Installation view: What Black Is This, You Say?, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY, May 12, 2021 - June 30, 2023
Installation view: Amanda Williams: Embodied Sensations, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, April 10 - June 20, 2021
What black is this you say?—-“Apparently even Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben’s Lives Matter now.”—black (06.17.20)
2020
Oil, mixed media on wood panel
20x 20” / 50.8x50.8cm
What black is this you say?—-“None of your business”—black (11.06.20)
2020
Oil, mixed media on wood panel
20x 20” / 50.8x50.8cm
What black is this you say?—-“It’s easier for young black men to rip an entire ATM out of a bank drive-thru machine and crack it open to get to the money than it is for them to get a job, Bank Account or Loan from that same bank”—black (06.03.20)
2020
Oil, mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20” / 50.8 x 50.8cm
Installation view: Roll Out the Red Carpet to White Flight (They Didn’t Pitch a Tent in the Open Prairie), 2019, comissioned for Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection at the University of Chicago Smart Museum of Art, Chicago IL, January 29 - May 19, 2019
Thrival Geographies (In My Mind I See a Line), 2018, in Dimensions of Citizenship, Wrightwood 659, Chicago, IL, 2019
Thrival Geographies (In My Mind I See a Line), 2018, in Dimensions of Citizenship, US Pavilion, Biennale Architettura 2018, Venice, Italy
Installation view, Chicago Works: Amanda Williams, MCA Chicago, Jul 18–Dec 31, 2017
Chicago is Iraq? series, 2017, cut paper, 22 x 30” / 55.9 x 76.2cm each
Color(ed) Theory: Ultrasheen
2016
Color(ed) Theory: Crown Royal Bag
2016
Color(ed) Theory: Harold’s Chicken Shack
2016
Show Me the Receipts (For Whitney)
2012
Oil, gold leaf, mixed media on wood panel
12 x 12” / 30.5 x 30.5cm
Untitled (Piece of Mind)
2008
Oil on wood panel
46 x 60” / 116.8 x152.4cm
