Kerry James Marshall
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Kerry James Marshall is an American artist and professor, known for his paintings of Black figures. He previously taught painting at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2017, Marshall was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
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A part of what I’m doing is making work that functions in those same capacities, but that centralizes the Black figure.
Kerry James Marshall, interview with Apollo Magazine, 2018.
For generations of young people, they have to see it as a possibility. So they can start using their minds to further imagine it.
Kerry James Marshall, interview with Apollo Magazine, 2018.
It is more important to resolve whatever those deficiencies are and to bring that work, on its own terms, into a space where it can be dealt with differently.
Kerry James Marshall, Art21, 2008.
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Kerry James Marshall is an American artist and professor, known for his paintings of Black figures. He previously taught painting at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2017, Marshall was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. He was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, and moved in childhood to South Central Los Angeles. He has spent much of his career in Chicago, Illinois.
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