When ABC decided the Johnsons of “black-ish” were due a portrait, it sought an artist who understood the family’s perspective.
The task went to painter and illustrator Kadir Nelson, a chronicler of the contemporary African American experience and an admirer of the sitcom.
The result is a captivatingly sly, 70×70-inch oil-on-canvas work that depicts series stars including Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross in character and part of a riff on the “sipping tea” meme.
Nelson said the approach fits a tumultuous time of political conflict and racial reckoning. “I was thinking about how the fictional Johnson family would respond,” he said when he hit on the meme. “You’re kind of sitting back and observing with this knowing look: ‘I know what’s
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