Yun-Fei Ji with Kerry James Marshall at Prospect.3
Yun-Fei Ji · Kerry James Marshall
Yun-Fei Ji explains the meaning behind his painted scroll to Kerry James Marshall at the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans for Prospect.3. Troubled by the dying culture of cities in China, Ji employs a historic method of storytelling to tell contemporary Chinese experience.
“People may abandon this because they don’t think it is modern, but it is,” says Marshall, “I’m interested in how the idea of modernity can evolve in those cultures outside the West.”
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Yun-Fei Ji was born in 1963 in Beijing, China, and now lives and works in New York, Ohio, and Beijing. Using traditional Chinese painting techniques and addressing contemporary social, environmental, and political issues, Ji’s work marries history with the present.
Kerry James Marshall was born in 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama, and currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. The artist was educated at Otis Art Institute, where he received a BFA in 1978 and an honorary doctorate in 1999. In his work, Marshall interrogates Western art history, recontextualizing the canon to include themes and imagery that have been historically excluded. Through his paintings, drawings, installations, and public works, the artist builds a body of work that privileges the Black figure, using race, history, and everyday Black experiences as the inspiration for his work.
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