{"id":216282,"date":"2025-10-16T02:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/216282\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T02:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:41:10","slug":"kerry-james-marshall-steals-the-show-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/216282\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry James Marshall Steals The Show in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWith early chatter that the Royal Academy\u2019s \u201cKerry James Marshall<\/a>: The Histories\u201d exhibition is a major hit<\/a>, it\u2019s notable that a couple of Marshall works have made it to the show floor of Frieze London.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first, at Alexander Gray Associates, is the 1992 painting A Woman with a Heart of Gold, on offer for $2.9 million. The painting centers on a dark-skinned figure rendered against a deep green field, their face half-obscured by radiating clock numerals and a halo-like lattice. Around them float four portraits of blonde women, each framed by thin white borders and smeared with paint. <\/p>\n

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\n\tThe collage\u2014built from Harlequin romance novel covers\u2014turns kitsch into critique, exposing the racial fantasies embedded in mass-market desire. The effect is both tender and unsettling. It\u2019s Marshall at his sharpest\u2014both playful and precise.<\/p>\n

\n\tDavid Zwirner<\/a>, which has represented the artist with Jack Shainman since 1994, has a more restrained work on view, the 1990 painting A Little Romance.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the foreground is a reclining figure with his hands clasped\u00a0behind his head, his eyes dreamily pointed toward the sky. Two disembodied heads float above his\u2014perhaps they are his parents, or imaginary figures he has dreamt up. Yellow patches dot the rest of the painting, like floating lanterns, over a blue blackground topped with white-cloudlike formations. The paint reads as muddy in places, and the busyness seems to distract, more than focus the viewer. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tKerry James Marshall, A Little Romance\u00a0(1990) at David Zwirner<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for that Royal Academy show, more than a few raved to me about it. \u201cI\u2019ve been four times in four consecutive days,\u201d one dealer said. A Sotheby\u2019s rainmaker told\u00a0ARTnews\u00a0he\u2019d been three times already and was planning another visit. \u201cIt\u2019s in the air\u2026 in the ether\u2026\u201d said Alexander Gray. \u201cThat show reinforces that fact London is a destination. Great shows go up during Frieze.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show is starting to feel as buzzy as the fair for the internationals flying in.\u00a0\u00a0The way Marshall paints history seems to pack an extra punch when it\u2019s shown in London, the center of what was once the world\u2019s largest empire. People just keep going back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With early chatter that the Royal Academy\u2019s \u201cKerry James Marshall: The Histories\u201d exhibition is a major hit, it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[104564,76,354,355,49,48,88004,356,75,29576],"class_list":{"0":"post-216282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-alexander-grey","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-david-zwirner","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-kerry-james-marshall"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}