Kerry James Marshall

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kerry James Marshall
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Oct 17, 1955(1955-10-17)
Age	69
Birthplace	Birmingham
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Libra

Kerry James Marshall Biography

Kerry James Marshall is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on October 17, 1955 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.

His time spent in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California where the Black Power and Civil Rights movements had a significant impact on his paintings. Strongly influenced by his experiences as a young man, he developed a signature style during his early years as an artist that involved the use of extremely dark, essentially black figures. These images represent his perspective of African Americans, specifically black men with separate and distinct inner and outer appearances. At the same time, they confront racial stereotypes within contemporary American society. This common theme appeared continuously in his work throughout the subsequent decades, especially in the 1980s and 1990s and still appears in his most recent works.

Marshall based several of his pieces in the early 1990s on actual events in American history. One such painting, Voyager, painted in 1992, has special pertinence in a discussion of race issues in the United States because Marshall based it on a “luxury schooner … secretly outfitted to carry African slaves”. Symbols of this representation abound, from the two black figures in the boat and the flowers draped around the woman’s neck to the contrast between the light and airy clouds and the darkness of the upper background. A skull lies in the water, just beneath the ship, hinting at the doomed future of the Africans, and the unknown woman has an expression of uneasiness. He thus brings to the forefront the irony of a ship with a beautiful, high class appearance and a dark secret purpose, forcing people to think about something they would rather forget.

Kerry James Marshall Net Worth

Kerry James Marshall is one of the richest Artist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kerry James Marshall 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kerry James Marshall (born October 17, 1955) is an American artist born in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles and now lives in Chicago, Illinois, where he previously taught at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a 1978 graduate of Otis College of Art and Design. An exhibition of his work, Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, was assembled by the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2016.

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The Souvenir series chronicles the loss dealt to American society from the deaths of leaders in politics, literature, arts, and music. Souvenir III, finished in 1998, centers on the angel that arbitrates the present with the past. She is an angel of annunciation and the caretaker of the living room’s arrangements. However, in creating a new rhetoric of black people in America, he highlights their differences from conventional white power structures. There is a subtlety to the characters that compels the viewer to look deeper: these figures are directly in opposition to the abstraction black artists felt they had to incorporate in order to become mainstream artists. Marshall calls this incorporation of a strong aesthetic and political commentary a “visual authority” that commands the attention of society Within Souvenir III, the names of prominent black historical figures and the years of their deaths are featured at the top of the mural-sized painting. Thus, the theme of timelessness emerges: the viewer is in the present ruminating on the legacies of figures who are both civil rights champions and African American artists. The paintings reinforce these symbols of remembrance with the phrases “We Mourn Our Loss” and “In Memory Of”. Souvenir IV (1998), likewise set in a middle-class living room based on Marshall’s family’s living quarters, is realism with a touch of the intangible. Through the painting the viewer is traveling to the Civil Rights era and the painting itself is a postcard that also marks the journey. The entire scene echoes Egyptian rituals of supplying the dead in the afterlife with furnishings and food. Souvenir III and IV are done in the grisaille style, an “old-master narrative painting” technique, while Souvenir I and II (1997) are done in color. As one examines the backgrounds of the Souvenir series, the viewer realizes the lushness of the settings even within the monochromatic natures of III and IV. A Marshall hallmark is the stamping repeated through a painting, seen here as angel wings surrounding the black leaders, and floral backgrounds, seen here as glittered ornamentation.

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The Garden Project is an insightful series of paintings, both in its shrill outcry against the false promises and despairing reality of low-income public housing and in its capacity to show the incredible ability of African Americans to find happiness and build community despite these conditions. Through this series, Marshall reveals the inherent contradictions and profound juxtapositions between the idealized promises of Public Housing Projects and the often harsh, despairing reality of those living in them. But Marshall goes beyond merely exposing the discrepancy between this ideal and its corresponding reality, as his work alludes to the sense of community and hope that African American’s were able to create within the grinding conditions of low-income housing. Inspired by his former home, Nickerson Gardens, Marshall’s series “The Garden Project” makes an ironic play on the connotations inherent in the word “garden.” The five paintings in the series depict different public housing projects – Rockwell Gardens, Wentworth Gardens, Stateway Gardens, etc. – exploring how the almost eden-like imagery used in the names is absurd in regards to these failed projects. Executed on unstretched canvas, these massive paintings appear mural-like. Their collaged elements and, at times, rough surface treatment signify the decrepitude of public housing projects and the difficulty of life within them.

What is Kerry James Marshall known for?

Kerry James Marshall, (born 1955, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.), American painter and printmaker whose work examines aspects of African American culture in the United States. His unique images extend the grand traditions of history painting and populist vernacular imagery.

How much are Kerry James Marshall paintings worth?

Kerry James Marshall Painting Goes For Nearly $18.5 Million at Sotheby’s, Second-Highest Price at Auction for a Work by a Living African American Artist.

Why does Kerry James Marshall paint his figures a deep Black hue?

“The idea of those paintings,” Marshall told me, “is that blackness is non- negotiable in those pictures. It’s also unequivocal — they are black — that’s the thing that I mean for people to identify immediately. They are black to demonstrate that blackness can have complexity.

Why did Kerry James Marshall became an artist?

For Marshall, activism would materialize through the medium of art. From a very young age, he was attracted to the idea of becoming an artist. In elementary school, he enjoyed assisting his teachers with holiday decorations and participating in student exhibitions.

Is Kerry James Marshall Black?

Kerry James Marshall: A Black Presence In The Art World Is ‘Not Negotiable’ : NPR. Kerry James Marshall: A Black Presence In The Art World Is ‘Not Negotiable’ For decades, the 61-year-old artist has depicted black lives on canvas.