Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955) has long been an inspired and imaginative chronicler of the African American experience. Best known for his large-scale paintings featuring black figures, defiant assertions of blackness in a medium in which African Americans have long been “invisible men,” Marshall’s interrogation of art history covers a broad temporal swath stretching from the Renaissance to 20th-century American abstraction. This exhibition focuses primarily on Marshall’s paintings made over the last thirty-five years, from his seminal inaugural statement "Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self" (1980) to his most recent explorations of African American history.
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