The Artist Project

The Artist Project is an online series produced by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York which gives artists the opportunity to respond to the museum's encyclopedic collection. The Met invited Kerry James Marshall to participate in the second season of the project. In the video, he chose to discuss Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's Odalisque in Grisaille. Marshall talks about Ingres's decision-making in the creation of the painting in relation to his own practice. "In my work, I'm really interested in the idea of how pictures are made, and the only way I can make that explicit is to have multiple approaches in the same picture," Marshall says.