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Born 1955 Birmingham, Alabama. Known for: Social-satire painting, history, allegory.
The following text is from The New York Times Style Magazine. Kerry James Marshall Is Shifting the Color of Art History:. For more than 40 years, the Chicago-based artist has made it his mission to... Read full biography
The following text is from The New York Times Style Magazine. Kerry James Marshall Is Shifting the Color of Art History:. For more than 40 years, the Chicago-based artist has made it his mission to paint black figures into the canon. By Wyatt Mason, October 17, 2016. WE COULD BEGIN IN Birmingham,... Read full biography
The following text is from The New York Times Style Magazine. Kerry James Marshall Is Shifting the Color of Art History:. For more than 40 years, the Chicago-based artist has made it his mission to paint black figures into the canon. By Wyatt Mason, October 17, 2016. WE COULD BEGIN IN Birmingham, Ala., where the artist Kerry James Marshall was born in 1955, his father a postal worker whose hobby was buying broken watches, fancy ones — Baume & Mercier, Piaget, Patek Philippe — that he’d pick up... Read full biography
The following text is from The New York Times Style Magazine. Kerry James Marshall Is Shifting the Color of Art History:. For more than 40 years, the Chicago-based artist has made it his mission to paint black figures into the canon. By Wyatt Mason, October 17, 2016. WE COULD BEGIN IN Birmingham, Ala., where the artist Kerry James Marshall was born in 1955, his father a postal worker whose hobby was buying broken watches, fancy ones — Baume & Mercier, Piaget, Patek Philippe — that he’d pick up in pawn shops for a song, figure out how to fix with the help of books he’d find used, and resell. From that story, we could derive the practical idea that Marshall, a companion on his father’s expeditions from a very early age, saw that something... Read full biography
The following text is from The New York Times Style Magazine. Kerry James Marshall Is Shifting the Color of Art History:. For more than 40 years, the Chicago-based artist has made it his mission to paint black figures into the canon. By Wyatt Mason, October 17, 2016. WE COULD BEGIN IN Birmingham, Ala., where the artist Kerry James Marshall was born in 1955, his father a postal worker whose hobby was buying broken watches, fancy ones — Baume & Mercier, Piaget, Patek Philippe — that he’d pick up in pawn shops for a song, figure out how to fix with the help of books he’d find used, and resell. From that story, we could derive the practical idea that Marshall, a companion on his father’s expeditions from a very early age, saw that something rarefied and complex, in which one had zero training, could be approached, deconstructed and — with education and applica... Read full biography
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Keywords (22)
Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Subject
- •Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
Art School
- •Otis Art Institute, (Otis College of Art & Design) Student
Awards/Recognition
- •John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Anna and Frank Hall Collection, Sheldon Gallery, Lincoln
- •Axelrod Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Genre Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean