CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/25/2016

Kerry James Marshall: Look See

In Kerry James Marshall: Look See by David Zwirner Books, noted art historian Robert Storr describes "Untitled (Red Line)" (2014), pictured here, by the MacArthur-genius-award-winning, Metropolitan-Museum-of-Art-retrospective-having artist as pushing "most of the panic buttons of 'good taste' while offering, to those less hemmed in by 'white' norms, a glimpse of what high-style 'Other' kinds can look like." The red line "runs like a wound right through the face and body of the stylishly dressed woman who raises her dark glasses to look out at whoever is looking in at her… Behind her is a perfectly calibrated gray scale with a white ray at its center that dead ends in the wide black band that traverses the painting horizontally and presses her forward from behind. Thus ebony and ivory and scarlet exchange their latent symbolic meanings like electric charges arcing between proximate poles, amidst which stands a human subject."