I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way of making work.
Kerry James MarshallI think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.
Kerry James MarshallThe appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.
Kerry James MarshallJust like in the art museum, and notions of beauty and pleasure, if the hero is always a white guy with a squared jaw or pretty woman with big breasts, then kids start thinking that's how it's supposed to be. Part of the problem was that black comic book artists were making super heroes with the same pattern as the white super heroes. When you read a lot of those comics, the black super heroes don't seem to have anything to do.
Kerry James Marshall