MOCA: Kerry James Marshall

Billing as the first ever “true-to-life” museum exhibition in VR, “Mastry” is centered around Marshall’s fantastic exhibition, which debuted in April 2016 at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, and traveled to the Met Breuer in New York before closing at LA MOCA this past July.

The show was a 35-year retrospective of Marshall’s career, and marked the artist’s first major survey in the US, showcasing 80 paintings featuring Marshall’s familiar ebony subjects. Itself a sort of counter-archive to 600 years of black invisibility in Western art history, “Mastry” showcased Marshall’s own mastery over a multitude of art genres.

By inserting them in portraiture, landscape, historical events, nudes, abstraction, as well as representational and figurative works, Marshall’s paintings address the absence of black bodies from the Western art historical canon, and celebrate African American subjects going about their daily business.

Captured through laser scanning and volumetric photography, “MOCA: Kerry James Marshall” lets you virtually walk through the museum’s Grand Avenue galleries and explore the show from all angles. A guided audio tour has also been created for the experience.

Role:
Creative Director, Executive Producer

Platforms:
PC, VR

Release date:
2017

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