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Sherald's piece, with its use of her signature gray tones for the first lady's skin, was unveiled alongside kehinde wiley's unusually colorful portrait of former. Artist amy sherald talks about painting michelle obama, being a late bloomer, becoming famous, and heart transplants. In 2012, when amy sherald was 39, she collapsed in a baltimore rite aid.

The former first lady michelle obama's decision to commission sherald and wiley, the first black recipients of commissions from the national portrait gallery, are artists with points of view.

There are people who don't normally go to museums that are interested in art now. For more than 20 years, amy sherald has been putting the narratives of black families and black people to canvas. The gray skin in michelle obama's portrait feels at first like a loss, and then like a real gain.© amy sherald. (redirected from official portrait of first lady michelle obama).