Kerry James Marshall Exhibition
Jack Shainman Gallery
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Jack Shainman Gallery is presents Black Romantic, Kerry James Marshall's first solo show at the gallery in several years. Marshall sums up the exhibition by stating "It's all about love!". Embracing sentimentality and notions of romance and love in black popular art he gives in to representational impulses that rarely satisfy perceived critical weaknesses in the genre. Taking his show title from Thelma Golden's 2002 exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in which Golden explored populist notions of "Black Art" and the uncritical realm of image making, Marshall uses Black Romantic as a point of departure to continue his exploration of representation of the black figure in pictorial space. Employing numerous genres of painting, ranging from seascapes to classical artist self-portraits, and referencing the frivolity, sentimentality, and excesses emblematic of the Rococo, Marshall investigates the critical pretentions of the fine art establishment in which he participates.
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from May 22, 2008 to July 03, 2008