Exploring Black Identity with Kerry James Marshall | Art21

Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring Kerry James Marshall, from the "Identity” episode in Season 1 of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series.
"Identity" premiered in September 2001 on PBS.
From paintings and videos to his comic strip featuring African sculptures, Kerry James Marshall’s work unites influences from Renaissance painting and African-American traditions to question the authority of history and “reclaim the image of Blackness.”
Kerry James Marshall was born in 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama, and currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/arti...
Credits |
Created by: Susan Sollins & Susan Dowling. Executive Producer & Curator: Susan Sollins. Executive Producer: Susan Dowling. Series Producer: Eve-Laure Moros Ortega. Associate Producer: Migs Wright. Production Coordinator: Laura Recht. Researcher: Quinn Latimer & Wesley Miller. Director: Catherine Tatge. Editor: Donna Marino. Director of Photography: Bob Elfstrom, Mark Falstad, Tom Hurwitz, Terry Hopkins, & Ken Kobland. Assistant Camera: Doug Dunderdale & Steve Nealey. Sound: David Brownlow, Heidi Hesse, Mark Roy, Bill Wander, & Joe Yario. Gaffer/Grip: Lamar Bloodworth & Ned Hallick. Production Assistant: Steve Carrillo, Brian Hwang, Graham Gangi, Scott Stevens, Erick Michaud, Alexei Van Mourik, & Heather Murray. Animation Stand Photography: Marcos Levy & City Lights. Assistant Avid Editor: Matt Prinzig & Heather Burak. Assistant to the Director: Rachel Connolly.
Full credits available at art21.org/watc...
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[@DesireGrover-ve2io]

He is so relevant today considering the times we're in!

[@jdbates1197]

I saw one of his works in the Sao Paulo Museum. Incredible.

[@chantheartist5384]

One of my favorite artist today!

[@ochervelvet9687]

Love this! Thank you.

[@ironheartra8978]

Amazingly beautiful and powerful!

[@asampete3866]

Thank u for putting me on

[@prestondaniels3890]

The legend

[@donpayne1040]

Good work. Great great.

[@22221mm]

Beautiful and very inspiring. 🙌🏿💜

[@pUkkademps]

Thank you for this video. Wonderful art.

[@xavierbrown1654]

My favorite painter

[@lexeiy1730]

Fantastic and Beautiful 👏🏿👍🏿💛🙏🏿

[@FoursWithin]

Love his older pieces shown here. These are the ones that caught my eye 2 decades ago.
It's also really worth checking out his newer works. He has cleaned up the random paint abstractions. Something I liked at the time, but the new pieces are so tight that I dont miss it at all. ❤

[@rawbluecheese]

I love this artists' work and how he thinks.

[@aprint85lane]

Wow incredible

[@thee55move]

🙏🏿🔥🙏🏿

[@Seafishing-f1t]

Thank you my brother, I am a large format photographer trying to circumnavigate this white world.

[@MikeVladimir-d7v]

amazing

[@z.833]

Otis alumni

[@learnt2love]

¿y ese milagro?