Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic
Brooklyn Museum, February 20 - May 24, 2015
The works presented in Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation, by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the conventions of traditional European portraiture. The exhibition includes an overview of the artist’s extraordinary fourteen-year career and features sixty paintings and sculptures. For more information on the exhibition, please visit brooklynmuseum.org.
To read Deborah Solomon's recent feature, Kehinde Wiley Puts a Classical Spin on His Contemporary Subjects, in The New York Times, please visit nytimes.com.
To view Kehinde's portfolio of original photographs for New York Magazine, please visit nymag.com.
Image: Kehinde Wiley, Shantavia Beale II, 2012, oil on canvas. © Kehinde Wiley, Courtesy: Sean Kelly, NY