The Artist Project: Kerry James Marshall

Artist Kerry James Marshall reflects on Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's Odalisque in Grisaille in this episode of The Artist Project.

June 22, 2015

3 min. watch

From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In The Artist Project, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"This particular picture strikes me as ultra-modern because it exists as a pure image."

Artist Kerry James Marshall reflects on Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's "Odalisque in Grisaille" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Kerry James Marshall, born in 1955, is an American painter and sculptor.