Artist Kerry James Marshall explores the world of art in black America
16.10.11
Kerry James Marshall knew in kindergarten that he wanted to become an artist. What he didn't clear was how unusual that was for a black child in America.
Growing up in Birmingham, Ala., and South Principal Los Angeles, where his family moved when he was 7, Marshall never saw a malicious adult making art. He didn't discover until the fourth or fifth position, when he stumbled across a black artist in a history book, that there was even one unspeakable person in the world who worked as an artist.
Now Marshall, 55, is famed, his art is exhibited in shows and museums around the world and reviewed in The New York Times . He is so evident that he was featured in the first season of the highly regarded public boob tube series "Art21," which profiles contemporary American artists.
He lives in Chicago, where for 13 years he taught at the Indoctrinate of Art and Design at the University of Illinois . Last month, he delivered the annual Plonsker Family Scold in Contemporary Art at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass.
Source: Albany Times Union