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Apr 29, 2024 · Kerry James Marshall (born 1955, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.) is an American painter and printmaker whose work examines aspects of African American culture in the United States. His unique images extend the grand traditions of history painting and populist vernacular imagery.
- Childhood
- Education and Early Training
- Mature Period
- The Legacy of Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall was born a son of the contemporary Black American experience. He was birthed in Alabama, the second of three sons to a homemaker mother and postal worker father, who later toted the family to the Watts area of Los Angeles. Growing up in the Southern California neighborhood that was notoriously near the headquarters of the activ...
While still in high school, at the age of fourteen, Marshall began taking summer classes at Otis College of Art and Design. Particularly influential were his painting class with Sam Clayberger, and his figure drawing class with social realist artist Charles White, who intimidated Marshall at first, but then, "became as much as a friend as a mentor....
In 1987, Marshall moved to Chicago with his bride-to-be, playwright, director, and actress Cheryl Lynn Bruce (who had been working at the Studio Museum while Marshall did his residency). The move to Chicago was challenging at first, as he had no connections in the city other than his new in-laws. During his first two years there, he lived solo in a...
Along with other Contemporary artists of color, including Howardena Pindell, Charlene Teters, and Fred Wilson, Kerry James Marshall has catapulted to the forefront issues of race and Black representation in his painting. By depicting Black bodies, he has sought to "offset the impression that beauty is synonymous with whiteness," or, that historical...
- African-American
- October 17, 1955
- Birmingham, Alabama
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Nov 20, 2023 · K erry James Marshall is known around the world for his monumental virtuoso paintings, but a new book by Susan Tallman, “ Kerry James Marshall: The Complete Prints ,” makes clear that...
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Oct 25, 2016 · He is known for his large-scale narrative history paintings featuring black figures—defiant assertions of blackness in a medium in which African Americans have long been invisible—and his exploration of art history covers a broad temporal swath stretching from the Renaissance to 20th-century American abstraction.
Kerry James Marshall (b.1955 in Birmingham, AL; lives and works in Chicago, IL) is recognized as one of the leading contemporary artists of his time. Internationally renowned, Marshall’s work interrogates Western art history—from the Renaissance to 20th-century American Abstraction—challenging and recontextualizing the canon to include ...
May 25, 2023 · Kerry James Marshall. The veteran history painter on his surprising departure from his signature style. His new works range from exquisite corpses to archaeological sites.
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry. MOCA is pleased to present a 35-year retrospective of painter Kerry James Marshall, co-organized by the MCA Chicago, MOCA, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art under the leadership of MOCA’s Chief Curator Helen Molesworth.
