IN THE STUDIO: KERRY JAMES MARSHALL
Text | Rachel Wolff
Photographs | Kendall Karmanian
Art-historical references mix seamlessly with sociopolitical commentary in the Chicago painter's grand yet humble works.
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Marshall has long been admired in and beyond the art world for the ways in which he manages to both celebrate and scrutinize the African-American experience, and his Vienna-bound new work [Vienna Secession on view September 21 through November 25, 2012] continues in this vein. "There is a longing to love oneself that informs everything black people do in the United States," he says. "There are not any black people who do not feel some dimension of that in their lives. If they say they don't, they're lying."
Pick up a copy of the July/August 2012 issue of Art + Auction to read the complete story.
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