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As a major retrospective of his career opened at The Met, The New York Times declared the artist is 'Shifting the Color of Art History' Kerry James Marshall has mastered the game! |
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NOV 2016. As a middle school student, Kerry James Marshall already knew two things: He was passionate about art and planned to attend the Otis College of Art and Design; he was puzzled by the absence of African Americans from the works at the museums he visited in elementary school. These two tenets formed the basis of a lifetime of spectacular painting and have made the 61-year old Chicagoan, the most celebrated artist in the country.
For 35-years, he’s chronicled the Black experience, painting scenes from everyday life to key figures in American history like Harriet Tubman and Nat Turner. He is most widely known for large-scale, narrative paintings in which the black figure is not only predominant, but unapolegetic charcoal black. Rich in art history and Black culture, the tableaus are filled with political and social comment. Now, the largest museum retrospective to date, of Marshall’s work, is on view at The Met Breuer in New York through January 29, 2017. Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, debuted at MCA Chicago in the Spring. After The Met, the exhibition heads west to The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Mastry encompasses nearly 80 works - including 72 paintings. The exhibition’s title is a play on words, referencing Marshall’s comics-inspired Rythm Mastr series, and other included works, from the early and iconic. It’s also somewhat of an assertion, that Marshall, in his effort to counter the stereotypes of black people and reassert the place of the black figure within the canon of Western painting, has himself, become a ‘Master.’ “Mastry is an important concept,” he said, at MCA Chicago. “It implies having achieved a level of proficiency that you have the freedom to do what you want without fear of the consequences.” This fearless use of a brush – painting black figures with black paint and masterfully fashioning their stories - has made Marshall one of the country’s preeminent contemporary painters. |
Marshall is one of 'The Greats.' The NY Times Style Magazine feature celebrates seven people 'who are redefining our culture.' The cover art is a self portrait painted by the artist. |
THE ACCOLADES
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Kerry James Marshall: Bang, 1994, acrylic and collage on canvas, 103 by 114 in. Courtesy The Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, Ohio.
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Kerry James Marshall, Untitled (Studio), 2014 Acrylic on PVC panel , 83 5⁄16 × 119 ¼ in. , The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Gift, Acquisitions Fund and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Multicultural Audience Development Initiative Gift, 2015 |
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THE ARTIST & HIS ART
Kerry James Marshall, Vignette, 2003 Photo: Defares Collection, Image courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner, London
THE EXHIBITION
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Kerry James Marshall, Untitled (Painter), 2009. Acrylic on PVC; 44 5/8 x 43 1/8 x 3 7/8 in. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Katherine S. Schamberg by exchange, 2009.15. © 2009 Kerry James Marshall Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
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Kerry James Marshall, Slow Dance, 1992–93, mixed media and acrylic on unstretched canvas. Lent by The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago; Purchase, Smart Family Fund Foundation for Contemporary Art, and Paul and Miriam Kirkley Fund for Acquisitions. Photo © 2015, courtesy of The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago.
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Kerry James Marshall, A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self, 1980, 8 x 6 in., egg tempera on paper. Steven and Deborah Lebowitz. Photo courtesy MCA Chicago |
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