"From early on, very early on, I understood that art is not about what you say. It’s about these other things that you don’t say."
"Our Town" (1995)
"Our Town," 1995
Acrylic and collage on unstretched canvas, 100 x 124 inches
Collection of the artist, Chicago
Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Acrylic and collage on unstretched canvas, 100 x 124 inches
Collection of the artist, Chicago
Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
"The condition of invisibility that Ralph Ellison describes [in 'Invisible Man'] is not a kind of transparency, but it's a psychological invisibility. It's where the presence of black people was often not wanted and denied in the American mindset. And so what I set out to do was to develop a figure or a form that would represent that condition of invisibility, where you had an incredible presence, but there was a way in which you could sometimes be seen and not seen at the same time."
- Kerry James Marshall
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