Kerry James Marshall in Artforum

“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.