Kerry James Marshall was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1955, later moving to Los Angeles. He taught painting for many years at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2013, he was named for the Committee on the Arts and the Humanities by President Barack Obama. In 2017, Marshall was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. The National Cathedral in Washington, DC, is currently working with Marshall to create two new stained-glass windows. Marshall lives and works in Chicago. Susan Tallman is a critic and art historian, who has written extensively on contemporary art, the history of prints, and other aspects of art and culture. A regular contributor to New York Review of Books, she has authored and co-authored many books and museum catalogues, most recently No Plan At All: How the Danish Printshop of Niels Borch Jensen Redefined Artists Prints for the Contemporary World (2021), The American Dream: Pop to the Present (2017). In 2011 she co-founded the journal Art in Print and served as its Editor-in-Chief until its closure in 2019.
"As Tallman's book makes clear, Marshall's abiding interest lies in the exploration that is born in making interconnected, often printed images that jumble and fuse. This interest may be the source of his singular creative output, which has made him one of the most consistently innovative artists of our time.--Françoise Mouly ""New Yorker"" Traces a lifelong reverence for the materiality of all visual art.--Lauren Christensen ""The New York Times Book Review"""