3 w. ago Kerry James Marshall on Making ‘the Paintings Nobody Else Is Making’

Kerry James Marshall on Making ‘the Paintings Nobody Else Is Making’  The New York Times

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3 w. ago 6 Unforgettable Works in Kerry James Marshall’s Major London Show

6 Unforgettable Works in Kerry James Marshall’s Major London Show  Artsy

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3 w. ago Kerry James Marshall's London Retrospective | Macy's New Holiday Square Market | RIP DJ Ron Carroll

Kerry James Marshall's London Retrospective | Macy's New Holiday Square Market | RIP DJ Ron Carroll  Newcity

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3 w. ago ‘My paintings don’t fit the narrative’: Kerry James Marshall on why he’s depicting black enslavers

He is arguably America’s greatest living painter, elevating everyday black life to the level of epic, jaw-dropping masterpieces. Now, for his biggest European show, the artist talks us through his disturbing new worksHistory weighs on Kerry James Marshall, though not all that heavily. When he talks about the hefty subjects of his art – from slavery to civil rights – he does so with a disarming, disquieting lightness. Maybe that’s because at almost 70 years old, and at the peak of his popularity, he’s seen it all.Marshall grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, just a few blocks away from where the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, a white supremacist attack that killed four young black girls, took place in 1963. When his family moved to Los Angeles, they ended up right in the middle of the 1965 Watts riots, a six-day uprising fuelled by growing racial tension in the poorest part of the city. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Kerry James Marshall at RA: his biggest exhibition in Europe is an epic journey

This celebration of the work of Kerry James Marshall is a journey into the history of painting

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4 w. ago Kerry James Marshall review – astonishing visions of black America, from bar

Royal Academy, London Kidnappings, enslavement, cops and squad cars, golfers, picnics, croquet-players, interstellar travellers the US artist’s largest ever European show takes in an extraordinary range of experience in a breathtaking showBiting, funny, astonishing, difficult, surprising, erudite and hugely ambitious, Kerry James Marshall’s The Histories is the largest show of the black American’s work ever held in Europe. Its effects are cumulative. The Histories charts the 69-year-old painter’s intellectual as well as practical development, his themes, his switches of media and of focus and attention. Everything is here for a reason.How engaging Marshall’s art is, from the first. He takes us from the bar to the bedroom, to the Middle Passage, from the studio to the academy, from the beauty parlour to the dancehall. He paints scenes of kidnappings and of enslavement in Africa and of a black cop sitting on the hood of his squad car – I love the jagged stylised flare of the streetlig...

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