Born in 1955 Birmingham, Alabama, but reared in Chicago and inspired by Goya and comic books, Kerry James Marshall built his reputation in LA as an artist who bridged the gap between black American culture and African diaspora folk material.
Interview is from a 1998 edition of Bomb, the art quarterly
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We scratch our heads each time we’re confronted by the Jamaican art on sale at the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. It’s not just how awful it is, the ridiculously high prices, but rather what does it say about the quality of work being produced in the country?
However there is good work being done by local [...]