"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic at the Brooklyn Museum, February 13-May 10, 2015."
Biography; exhibs.; awards; collections.
Twenty-First-Century Blue Boy / Melinda McCurdy -- Overrepresented : In Which L.A. Blue Boy Visits San Marino, a City Named After Europe's Oldest Sovereign State, Situated on a Tongva Village / Malik Gaines -- "A Van Dyke Habit" : Dressing ...
Kehinde Wiley: Memling
Filled with reproductions of Kehinde Wiley’s bold, colorful, and monumental work, this book encompasses the artist’s various series of paintings as well as his sculptural work—which boldly explore ideas about race, power, and ...
Portraits of young African American St. Louis men and women whose poses are derived from paintings (and, in one case, sculpture) in the St. Louis Art Museum's collection.
The latest in the World Stage series of portraits by Kehinde Wiley (born 1977), this volume presents 13 new paintings, the result of the artist's trip to Haiti--a nation that is often presented as a place of chronic poverty, corruption and ...
"American artist Kehinde Wiley's new body of paintings and sculptures confronts the silence surrounding systemic violence against Black people through the visual language of the fallen figure.
Born in Los Angeles to a Yoruba father from Nigeria - absent from his youth and whom he would not find in Africa until adulthood - and an African-American mother, Kehinde Wiley holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art ...
"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Kehinde Wiley: LA Blue Boy, organized by the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage : China