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One of Kerry James Marshall’s first reactions to news that Chicago intended to sell a public library mural he painted was to swear off making any more public art. “It just seemed like a… ...
Kerry James Marshall’s Largest Work Yet Honors Women in the Arts Marshall recently unveiled a 132-foot-wide, 100-foot-tall mural that pays homage to 20 women who shaped Chicago’s cultural scene.
Kerry James Marshall’s “Black and part Black Birds in America: (Crow, Goldfinch),” 2020. It is one of two new works by the artist that David Zwirner Gallery will put on view this week. Kerry ...
Vogue's September covers feature paintings by Marshall and Jordan Casteel, who each consider the complexities of race, beauty and privilege.
“It’s a painful paradox that at the very moment that Kerry James Marshall’s place in art history is secured, public access to the work in his own hometown is reduced,” she said.
The art of Kerry James Marshall 28 photos His works deal with grief, injustice and loss, but also everyday life: swimming pools and beauty salons, daily rituals and quiet moments -- a window into ...
Kerry James Marshall, whose works have adorned the walls of national galleries and celebrities’ mansions, couldn’t imagine charging Washington National Cathedral his usual fee to replace its ...
But it neatly describes the preoccupations of Kerry James Marshall, worked out on canvas over four decades, in ambitious, large-scale depictions of African-American life.
With his large-scale, exuberant paintings, artist Kerry James Marshall is on a mission: to make the presence of black people and black culture in the art world "indispensable" and "undeniable ...
Kerry James Marshall collaborated with Wales Bonner on two t-shirts to benefit Study and Struggle, a Mississippi-based mutual aid organization.
For artist Kerry James Marshall, black is more than a colour. In his work, especially his paintings, black is an idea inspired by the virtual absence of black people from the history of western art.