“I want my portraits to create a space,” says the American artist Amy Sherald, “where blackness can breathe.” Sherald paints social portraits from staged photographs, her stylized figures standing, sitting, and hanging out against bold backdrops of Pop colors. Though her subjects are often Black, Sherald paints skin tones in gray scale, encouraging viewers to re-evaluate the complexities of race and representation. This exhibition, which is effectively Sherald’s first mid-career survey, includes 50 paintings of Black men, women, and children. —Elena Clavarino