Amanda Williams is an American visual artist who trained as an architect. Her practice uses color to foreground the complexities of race, place, and value in cities. Her works are in several collections including MoMA and the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Foundation fellowship.
I. Colors
1. Whatchu Cain’t Do Black - Roxane Gay
2. NYT Uppercase - J Wortham
3. Stevie's Eyelids Black - Corrine Bailey Rae
4. Andriana Fur Black - Rikki Byrd
5. More Than One Black - Joshua Segun-Lean
6. Praying Over Pork Chops Black - Eric Williams
7. Break From Blackness Black - Zoe Samuzdi
8. ATM Black - Emmanuel Massillon
9. Dark Skin Weapon - Habiba Hopson
10. Patent Black - Pablo Whaley
11. Fourth of July is a Lie Black - Kara Jackson
12. Hardheaded and Tenderheaded Black - Jamila Woods
13. CP Time - rejected - Rohan Ayinde
14. CP Time - embraced - Rohan Ayinde
15. Candy Lady Black - Tomi Laja
16. Blackness is not a color Black - Sena Amuzu
17. I’m Not African American Black - Cornelius Tulloch
II. Dialogues
1. What Black is This You Say? Conversation between Amanda Williams and
Cauleen Smith
2. might/Black walls (the Blackness of blackness) - Andres Hernandez:
On the histories, potentials and limitations of minimalism and color
theory, and what it means to coat a building that occupies public space in
ciphers of blackness
3. Conversation between Justin Garett Moore, Mabel O. Wilson, and Amanda
Williams
4. Epilogue - Deana Haggag
