Kerry James Marshall

Kerry James Marshall (born October 17, 1955) is an African 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. Quotes "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. "Artists make work because other artists made work that they appreciate, and they want to be in a conversation with or thought of in the same frame as those artists that they admire." Kerry James Marshall, Art21, 2008. “Art is a way of thinking about things. It has nothing to do with an innate ability to do anything.” Kerry James Marshall, Art21, 2008. External links Category: Living people Category: 1955 births Category: Artists Category: Installation artists Category: Painters