Kerry James Marshall: driven to make a difference

Kerry James Marshall has worked for the past 35 years with a singular goal in mind: to place the black figure squarely at the centre of the art canon. He has made much headway, as can be seen in his first major painting retrospective, which opened last month at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and will then travel to the Met Breuer in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (LA MoCA).
His classically composed pictures are filled exclusively with black subjects, settings,