Amy Sherald poses with New Art in the Neighborhood students. Photo: Jon Gitchoff.
Amy Sherald poses with New Art in the Neighborhood students. Photo: Jon Gitchoff.

Specific about People

“You know who I am,” she smiles. “I’m Amy Sherald.”

The students from CAM’s New Art in the Neighborhood program are shy and nervous at first, but warm to her in a very short while. She’s totally open, engaging, funny. She’s tall and stands…

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Claudia Comte at work on <em>Electric Burst (Lines and Zigzags)</em>. Photo: Jon Gitchoff.
Claudia Comte at work on Electric Burst (Lines and Zigzags). Photo: Jon Gitchoff.

Wall Patterns

When Claudia Comte discusses her early influences, she speaks of a her childhood home: Grancy, a small Swiss village in the countryside where her family lived in “a chalet in the woods…. I was very attracted by those woods.” She adds to her list animals, nature, and video…

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