Lonnie Holley with Kerry James Marshall at Prospect.3
Lonnie Holley tours his installation of new and recent work at Xavier University of Louisiana—a site-specific installation for the Prospect.3 biennial in New Orleans—with Kerry James Marshall.
“No matter what you do to my music—how you tear it apart—you can do all the harm that you want to do to the instrument,” says Holley, “but the music is in the human.”
Credits
Artist to Artist Created & Produced by: Ian Forster. Editor: Morgan Riles. Cinematography: Ian Forster. Sound: Kyle Sheehan. Production Assistant: Christoph Lerch. Music: Pinch Music. An Art21 Workshop Production. © Art21, Inc. 2014. All Rights Reserved.
Kerry James Marshall at Prospect.3 was supported, in part, by The Lambent Foundation and by individual contributors.
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Lonnie Holley was born in 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama. One of the South’s preeminent self-taught artists, Holley lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. His practice extends from assemblage and sculpture to music. He made his debut as a recording artist in 2012, at sixty-two years old; he has since worked with such figures as Bon Iver, the Dirty Projectors, and Animal Collective.
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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.