Kehinde Wiley is a New York based painter from Los Angeles who has situated himself firmly within art history’s tradition of portrait painting. Wiley, as the contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres, and others, appropriates the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, opulent, majestic, and sublime in his representations of young, urban, black men.

Kehinde Wiley’s works reference paintings by Titian and Tiepolo, but he also draws from other styles ranging from the French Rococo to contemporary urban street. Kehinde Wiley’s exhibition Infinite Mobility recently appeared at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Two of Wiley’s pieces are highlighted as part of the Collected Identities exhibition currently on display at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.

Website - http://www.kehindewiley.com/

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