Kerry James Marshall artist’s lecture
“John Brown’s Body: The Representation of Black Bodies as Revolutionary Gesture”
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- Categories: Lectures, Lectures | Art, Museums | Event
- Event posted: Feb. 18, 2010
- Last updated: Feb. 18, 2010
Event details
- Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 5:30 p.m.
- Spencer Museum of Art, 1301 Miss., KU campus, Lawrence
- Cost: Free
- Age limit: All ages
Nationally renowned painter, installation artist, and filmmaker Kerry James Marshall will speak on “John Brown’s Body: The Representation of Black Bodies as Revolutionary Gesture,” on Wednesday, March 3, at 5:30 PM in the Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium; a reception will follow in the Museum’s Central Court. Marshall’s talk is sponsored by the Spencer Museum of Art; the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University; and the KU School of the Arts. In his work, Marshall reflects and continues the tradition of moral conscience of Gordon Parks and other leading African American visual artists. He creates large-scale paintings that explore African American culture from the Civil Rights to today, drawing from and weaving a history of black experience into his narratives. To underscore the humanism and social advocacy that underlie Gordon Parks' best work and to acknowledge his participation in a tradition of African American art-making, Marshall will talk about his own work and its sources in the shared legacy—cultural as well as artistic. The artist says the subject of his art stems from the social climate of his youth: “You can't be born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1955 and grow up in South Central Los Angeles near the Black Panthers headquarters and not feel like you've got some kind of social responsibility....That determined a lot of where my work was going to go.” Marshall lives in Chicago. In 1997, he was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago organized a major retrospective on Marshall in 2004 that toured to nationally prominent museums. He is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. Marshall was a featured artist in the episode “Identity” in Season 1 of the PBS series Art:21. Learn more about him here: www.pbs.org/art21/artists/marshall/
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