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The Front
Room: Kerry James Marshall
May 24 – July 7, 2013
3750
Washington Boulevard
St. Louis,
MO
From CAM
web site:
CAM
presents a project by Kerry James Marshall—one of America’s most significant
living artists—as part of its ongoing Front Room series. Based in Chicago,
Marshall is internationally celebrated for a sophisticated and diverse body of
work that addresses the complex history of African American life and culture
and the artist’s role as an interpreter of that legacy. While his paintings intertwine compositional
and stylistic sensibilities from throughout art history, he has expanded his
practice to incorporate work in sculpture, graphic narratives, and video in
recent years. His project for CAM’s Front Room will be new work that will
respond directly to the specific dynamics of the gallery space. It is scheduled
to coincide with the June 2013 opening of the Saint Louis Art Museum’s new East
Building expansion, where Marshall’s iconic work Watts 1963 (1995) will be on
view.
Kerry
James Marshall was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1955 and lives and works in
Chicago. In 2013 his work will be presented in solo exhibitions at the National
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst,
Antwerp, Belgium. Other one-person exhibitions include presentations at the
Secession, Vienna (2012), the Millstone Gallery, Washington University, St.
Louis (2011), the Vancouver Art Gallery (2010), the Camden Arts Centre, London
(2005), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2003.) His work has been
featured in such prominent group exhibitions as Take me to Your Leader: The
Great Escape into Space, National Museum of Art, Oslo, and Production Site: The
Artist’s Studio Inside-Out, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (both 2010); 30
Americans, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida (2008); the Venice
Biennale (2003), the 1999/2000 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, PA, (1999), and Documenta X, Kassel, Germany (1997).
This
exhibition is organized by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and curated by
Dominic Molon, Chief Curator.
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