Kerry James Marshall
(c)image: Courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, and Koplin Del Rio, CA
Between 1978 and 1985 Marshall produces a variety of collages. Here the emphasis is mainly on form, surface and structure. But in this abstract working-method, he also treats images with a specific significance, mainly derived from fragments of words on labels.
These early collages have not often been seen. Indeed, this is the first time that the Nude collages have been presented in a public exhibition.