"At this time in my life, I’m ready to accept or own a kind of romance and melancholy or melodrama that I wasn’t ready to reveal before. It was always there in my inner life as an artist, but I was too afraid to share it."
"Many Mansions" (detail; 1994)
Many Mansions, detail, 1994
Acrylic and collage on unstretched canvas; 114 x 135 inches
Art Institute of Chicago, Max V. Kohnstamm Fund, 1995
Production still from the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 1 episode, "Identity," 2001
© Art21, Inc. 2001
"What I was thinking to do with my image was to reclaim the image of blackness as an emblem of power. And I think it still functions pretty much that same way."
—Kerry James Marshall
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