Kerry James Marshall was born 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama and bounced around from South Central L.A. to Chicago, where he taught at the School of Art and Design at the University of illinois at Chicago. His large-scale paintings mostly depict African-American life, the effects of the Civil Rights movements on domestic life, and rudiments of popular culture. His work glorifies the ghetto. In the Lost Boys series, Marshall explores the concept of being "Lost in the ghetto, lost in public housing, lost in joblessness, and lost in literacy." This man flexes on the real economic struggle. I love the atmosphere he creates in these paintings, in his emphases on contrast and texture.
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