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The Royal Academy of Arts presents the largest survey of celebrated American artist and Honorary Royal Academician Kerry James Marshall ever to be shown in Europe. Marking the artist’s 70th birthday, this major solo exhibition explores Marshall’s expansive career to date. Kerry James Marshall: The Histories features over 70 works, bringing together primarily paintings, as well as examples of the artist’s prints, drawings and sculpture, from museums and private collections across North America and Europe. The exhibition is the first institutional presentation of the artist’s work in the UK since 2006 and includes a dramatic new series of paintings made especially for the show.
Revered as one of the most influential contemporary history painters working today, Marshall’s powerful, large-scale paintings address themes including the Middle Passage and the legacies of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements; portray individuals such as Olaudah Equiano and Harriet Tubman; and create monumental scenes depicting contemporary Black life, elevating the everyday to the epic. He centres Black figures in paintings built on …
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Image above: Kerry James Marshall – School of Beauty, School of Culture (detail), 2012, Acrylic and glitter on unstretched canvas. 274.3 x 401.3 cm, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama. © Kerry James Marshall. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photo: Sean Pathasema.
