CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/14/2017

Kerry James Marshall: Look See

"I'm acutely aware of and obsessively invested in how the narrative of art history is structured, and the burden that history imposes on artists ambitious enough to dream of being part of it," painter Kerry James Marshall is quoted in Look See, published by David Zwirner Books. "Black artists have not really been significant players in that narrative for very long. It's only in the mid-twentieth century that you start seeing black people making artworks that were thought important enough to talk about in relationship to that history. So the challenge is to gain an uncontestable place in the pantheon of art history without surrendering the desire to make pictures with black figures." Featured image is "Untitled (Rapunzel)" (2014).