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Kerry James Marshall

Kerry James Marshall (Born 1955) is active/lives in Illinois, Alabama.  Kerry Marshall is known for Social-satire painting, history, allegory.

The following text is from The New York Times Style Magazine

Kerry James Marshall Is Shifting the Color of Art History:
For more than 40 years, the Chicago-based artist has made it his mission to paint black figures into the canon.

By Wyatt Mason, October 17, 2016

WE COULD BEGIN IN Birmingham, Ala., where the artist Kerry James Marshall was born in 1955, his father a postal worker whose hobby was buying broken watches, fancy ones — Baume & Mercier, Piaget, Patek Philippe — that he’d pick up in pawn shops for a song, figure out how to fix with the help of books he’d find used, and resell. From that story, we could derive the practical idea that Marshall, a companion on his father’s expeditions from a very early age, saw that something rarefied and complex, in which one had zero training, could be approached, deconstructed and — with education and application — mastered.

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