Kerry James Marshall: One True Thing

Kerry James Marshall: One True Thing, Meditations on Black Aesthetics

For many African American artists, defining a black aesthetic has meant a long and painful attempt to find a place within a dominant white culture, a culture whose ideology and assumptions appear to be so pervasive as to seem invisible at times. In his masterful travelling exhibition, ‘One True Thing: Meditations on Black Aesthetics’ Kerry James Marshall has elucidated what Western culture has efficiently negated or appropriated: an African American sensibility capable of addressing universal themes.

_Polly Ulrich
http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/kerry_james_marshall/