Kerry James Marshall

KERRY JAMES MARSHALL is a Chicago-based contemporary artist who creates paintings and installations exploring black identity, culture, and the frameworks of Western art history.
2018 has seen untrained artists surge at major American museums, with the group exhibitions Outliers and American Vanguard Art at the National Gallery of Art and History Refused to Die at the Met, and the upcoming retrospective Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). Leslie Umberger, SAAM’s curator of Between Worlds spoke with artist Kerry James Marshall, who wrote the introduction for the accompanying monograph on Traylor.
Bill Traylor (1853–1949), untitled (Figures and Construction with Blue Border), Montgomery, Alabama, United States, c. 1941, poster paint and graphite on cardboard, 15 1/2 x 8 in., American Folk Art Museum, New York, gift of Charles and Eugenia Shannon, 1991.34.1. Photo by John Parnell, American Folk Art Museum.

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