"In the paintings where it's there—the tenderness—I work for it. I'm not afraid of it. If I could put my bleeding heart in there, I would."
"Untitled (Altgeld Gardens)" (1995)
"Untitled (Altgeld Gardens)," 1995
Acrylic and collage on canvas, 78 1/2 x 103 inches. Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Acrylic and collage on canvas, 78 1/2 x 103 inches. Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
"The initial development of that unequivocally black, emphatically black figure was so that I would use them as figures that function rhetorically in the painting...And one of the things that I had been thinking about when I started to develop that figure was the way in which the folk and folklore of blackness always seemed to carry a derogatory connotation...A part of what I was thinking to do with my image was to reclaim the images of blackness as an emblem of power, instead of an image of derision."
- Kerry James Marshall
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