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Conversations with Artists: Kerry James Marshall

Kerry James Marshall has exhibited widely in both the United States and abroad and is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, among other honors. His work often explores the experiences of African Americans and narratives of American history that have historically excluded Black people. Drawing upon the artist’s prodigious knowledge of art history and African diasporic culture, his paintings combine figurative and abstract styles. In Marshall’s art, the past is never truly past: history exerts a constant, often unconscious pressure on the living. In this program recorded on June 26, 2013, exhibition curator James Meyer and Kerry James Marshall discuss the works and themes of his exhibition In the Tower: Kerry James Marshall, on view at the Gallery from June 28 to December 8, 2013.

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Two Black men stand in a subway car facing the camera. Both are shown from the hips up. The man on the left wears a black leather jacket and brown fur hat, and wraps his arms around the body. He has a neutral expression but direct gaze. The man on the right wears a black leather jacket over a brown sweater. He points a finger on each hand at his head, which is topped by a brown newsboy cap.

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