Kerry James Marshall2000

"In Kerry James Marshall we have an artist who is a master of modern and postmodern art idioms and yet profoundly concerned with classical art traditions. His work is provocative, politically confrontational, and alive with wit and charm. At the same time, it is richly personal and extraordinarily beautiful. His large scenes are built up in opulent, textured passages of paint, collage, pencil, glitter, and ink on unstretched canvas or paper.

His exquisite colors, subtle brushwork, and consummate draftsmanship seduce the eye; his use of large scale calls to mind the grand tableaus of past centuries; his subjects are readily identifiable by any resident of an American city.".

"Marshall creates lyrical images of the African-American urban experience at the turn of the millenium. His scenes...