2017
June 9—October 7
Untitled (policeman) (2015) by Kerry James Marshall was included in the group exhibition Blue Black at Pulitzer Arts Foundation.
Curated by the American artist Glenn Ligon and inspired by Ellsworth Kelly’s sculpture Blue Black (2000) which is permanently installed at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, the exhibition explored questions about language, identity, and perception through the lens of these two colors.
As Ligon explained in an interview with The New York Times, "there’s Kerry James Marshall’s policeman in uniform, where blackness as a racial identity and blackness as a color are conjoined—very different than [Ellsworth] Kelly’s intention but somehow connected through the two colors. That’s where the show started … "
The exhibition also included Blue Bathers (2014) by gallery artist Chris Ofili.