FORTHCOMING

Kehinde Wiley: Colorful Realm

Edited by Stephanie Emerson. Foreword by Julie Roberts. Text by Allison Glenn, Hollis Goodall, Yukio Lippit.

This striking volume presents a new body of work by American painter Kehinde Wiley, who is best known for his vibrant portraiture of Black people that subverts the hierarchies and conventions of classical European and American portraiture. Drawing inspiration from Japanese nature paintings of the Edo period (ca. 1600–1868), Wiley parallels traditional techniques and materials in these monumental works. Exposed linen in the background of the paintings highlights the natural elements of the scenes while also preserving a delicate balance of untouched picture space. In recontextualizing the naturalist landscape genre from a non-Western perspective, Wiley activates diverse ways of thinking . . . .go to book page >>