Everything is Everything

Artist Clarence Heyward American, born 1983

Date2022

MediumAcrylic and variegation leaf on canvas

Dimensionsheight and width: 48 × 30 in. (121.9 × 76.2 cm)
frame: 49 × 31 in. (124.5 × 78.7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the William R. Roberson Jr. and Frances M. Roberson Endowed Fund for North Carolina Art

Object number2022.13.1

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On view

Label TextEverything is Everything depicts Heyward’s eldest daughter, Gabrielle, who was about ten years old at the time of this painting. She is holding American singer and rapper Lauryn Hill’s debut
solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, a symbol of Heyward processing their father-daughter dynamic.

Hill cherished integrity and authenticity throughout her music, often demonstrating the complexity of evolving as a woman in a male-dominated genre during the 1990s. In this piece, the album serves as a cross-generational tool to connect the pair, allowing Heyward to communicate with Gabrielle about coming of age, especially as a young girl navigating intersecting experiences.
ProvenanceCreated by the artist, 2022; with Turner Carroll Gallery, Sante Fe, NM; sold to NCMA, 2022.
Published ReferencesNorth Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection," (Raleigh, NC; North Carolina Museum of Art, 2024), illus. (color) 132.Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, CAM Raleigh, “UNSEEN: Clarence Heyward," March 19, 2022–October 2, 2022.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," May 1, 2023–present. Object Rights Statement

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