Kerry James Marshall in Artforum

Black and Part-Black (Grackle, Cardinal, & Rose-breasted Grosbeak), Birds in America, dated 2020

The publication's Year in Review highlights Black and part Black Birds in America

December 10, 2020

“Where to start with Black and part Black Birds in America, the new series of paintings by Kerry James Marshall—modest, easel size—I stumbled on this July when, starved for art, I turned to the web. Does one begin with their manifest pictorial qualities.... Or with the sly weave of sociocultural associations these faintly foreboding images improbably access?’’

Read the full review in the December issue of Artforum.

Image: Kerry James Marshall, Black and part Black Birds in America: (Grackle, Cardinal & Rose-breasted Grosbeak), 2020 (detail)

Studio: Kerry James Marshall