Kehinde Wiley

Kehinde Wiley was born in Los Angeles, CA in 1977, and received his MFA from the Yale University, School of Art in New Haven, CT in 2001. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Walker Art Center, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. The artist currently lives and works in New York City, and exhibits with Deitch Projects in New York, Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, and Roberts & Tilton in Los Angeles.

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Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage, Brazil Text by Brian Keith Jackson, Kimberly Cleveland. This volume includes a selection of 22 new portrait paintings from Kehinde Wiley's multinational World Stage series, which has included Africa, China and India in the past and now moves on
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ROBERTS & TILTON
ISBN: 9781427613738
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Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage, India, Sri Lanka Text by Gayatri Sinha. Interview by Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky). Kehinde Wiley's acclaimed World Stageseries inserts into the language of old master portraiture the very ethnicities and ethnic iconography that western art has most excluded from it, or that western art
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RHONA HOFFMAN GALLERY
ISBN: 9780615444598
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Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Israel Text by Ruth Eglash, Claudia J. Nahson. Interview by Dr. Shalva Weil. Kehinde Wiley’s acclaimed World Stage series inserts into the language of old master portraiture the very ethnicities and ethnic iconography that western art has most excluded from it, or that western
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ROBERTS & TILTON
ISBN: 9781427613752
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Kehinde Wiley

Immersing himself in the local culture of Rio de Janeiro, Wiley incorporates the people, history and aesthetic of the city in each of his monumental male portraits. His models, chosen from the favela slums, reflect historically significant public sculptures found within the city. Oversize tropical flowers in full bloom, appropriated from Brazilian textiles, inundate the work with saturated, brightly hued colors suggestive of Brazilian exoticism. Image is from Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage Brazil.

Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Israel

Text by Ruth Eglash, Claudia J. Nahson. Interview by Dr. Shalva Weil.
Published by Roberts & Tilton

Kehinde Wiley’s acclaimed World Stage series inserts into the language of old master portraiture the very ethnicities and ethnic iconography that western art has most excluded from it, or that western art has portrayed solely in colonial, Orientalist terms. Among the countries and continents he has previously depicted in this ambitious traveling epic are Brazil, Africa, China, India and Sri Lanka. The rhetoric of Wiley’s paintings is powerful in its compositional candor, color palette and playfulness with constructions of visual meaning; as Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) notes, “Wiley’s canvas surfaces are a mirror reflection of America’s unceasing search for new meanings from the ruins of the Old World of Europe and Africa.” This volume includes a selection of new World Stage portraits, focusing on contemporary youth from Jewish-Ethiopian-Israeli, Jewish-Israeli and Arab-Israeli communities.

Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage, India, Sri Lanka

Text by Gayatri Sinha. Interview by Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky).
Published by Rhona Hoffman Gallery

Kehinde Wiley's acclaimed World Stageseries inserts into the language of old master portraiture the very ethnicities and ethnic iconography that western art has most excluded from it, or that western art has portrayed solely in colonial, Orientalist terms. Among the countries he has previously depicted in this ambitious traveling epic are Brazil, Africa and China. The rhetoric of Wiley's paintings is powerful in its candor, color and its playfulness with constructions of visual meaning, and as Paul Miller (DJ Spooky) also notes, “Wiley's canvas surfaces are a mirror reflection of America's unceasing search for new meanings from the ruins of the Old World of Europe and Africa.” This volume includes a selection of new World Stageportraits, focusing on India (specifically the cities of New Delhi and Mumbai) and Sri Lanka. Text in English and Hindi.

Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage, Brazil

Text by Brian Keith Jackson, Kimberly Cleveland.
Published by Roberts & Tilton

This volume includes a selection of 22 new portrait paintings from Kehinde Wiley's multinational World Stage series, which has included Africa, China and India in the past and now moves on to Brazil. Immersing himself in the local culture of Rio de Janeiro, Wiley incorporates the people, history and aesthetic of the city in each of his monumental male portraits. His models, chosen from the favela slums, reflect historically significant public sculptures found within the city. Oversize tropical flowers in full bloom, appropriated from Brazilian textiles, inundate the work with saturated, brightly hued colors suggestive of Brazilian exoticism. Likening African-descended, young Brazilian males to canonical figures from Western art history as well as Brazilian public monuments, Wiley renders masculinity both august and noble. Text in English and Portuguese.