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
