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Former model and CT artist channels nature and Swedish childhood in her art

"I've lived two lives-one as a fashion model showing only the surface of me, and now as an artist where I can reveal what's ...
PBS

Artist Amy Sherald's Painting Process

Artist Amy Sherald working with two models in her studio in Jersey City, NJ. Artist Amy Sherald invites two models into her studio in Jersey City, NJ, to help her visualize her painting, "For love, ...
Artnet

A Decade Ago, Artist Jenny Morgan Discovered Her Doppelgänger. Now She’s Her Model

“To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light,” famed Swiss psychologist Carl Jung wrote. Standing in front of Brooklyn artist Jenny Morgan’s newest works—spectral, beautiful oil ...
Artnet

Artist Hodges Soileau Painted Nearly Every Cover of ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ Book Series. Meet the Real-Life Models Behind the One-of-a-Kind Works

Recently, fans of “The Baby-Sitters Club” series discovered that the artist behind most of the iconic 1990s book covers, Hodges Soileau, had been selling the original art. Soileau produced oil ...
The New Yorker

How the Artist Kehinde Wiley Went from Picturing Power to Building It

Soliciting pedestrians in the Matongé neighborhood of Brussels, Kehinde Wiley, forty-five, looked more like a sidewalk canvasser than he did a world-famous artist. He sidled up to strangers in an ...