October 25,
2016–January 29, 2017
Exhibition
Location: The Met Breuer, 3rd and 4th floors
The largest
museum retrospective to date of the work of American artist Kerry James
Marshall (born 1955) will open this October at The Met Breuer as a cornerstone
of its inaugural season. Encompassing nearly 80 works—including 72
paintings—that span the artist’s remarkable 35-year career, this major
monographic exhibition reveals Marshall’s practice to be a complex and compelling
one that synthesizes a wide range of pictorial traditions to counter
stereotypical representations of black people in society and reassert the place
of the black figure within the canon of Western painting.
Kerry James
Marshall: Mastry will be complemented by the concurrent exhibition Kerry James
Marshall Selects, curated by the artist. Marshall will draw some 40 works from
The Met collection, ranging from the Northern Renaissance to French
post-Impressionism, and from African masks to American photography of the 1950s
and ‘60s, underscoring the global and historical nature of the influences that
are predominant in his practice.
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