Kerry James Marshall
7am Sunday Morning (2003) references Edward Hopper’s painting Early Sunday Morning (1930).
Like Hopper, Marshall presents a scene from everyday life in the early morning. 7am Sunday Morning is a large painting on unstretched canvas which contains the large distortion of a lens-flare. Various visual planes overlap each other. On the one side there is the neighborhood of Marshall’s studio as calm and serene, while on the other there is a visual effect of refracted light that is descriptive of a photographic image. The relative lack of activity and the soft tints of colour give this painting a tranquility, something that rather contrasts with the neighbourhood's more animated daily reality.