Amy Sherald brought one of her most beloved paintings to life for tonight’s Met Gala, which was held to benefit the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.
With the help of designer Thom Browne, Sherald dressed up as the little girl in her 2014 painting Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance), the work that won the artist the National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Prize and appeared on a New Yorker cover last year.
The painting, which is featured in a traveling Sherald survey that opens at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art on May 15, features a young woman holding an oversized teacup and staring at the viewer. Sherald drew her inspiration for the work from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
