“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 prolific fourteen-year career and features sixty paintings and sculptures.”
“The exhibition includes a selection of Wiley’s World Stage paintings, begun in 2006, in which he takes his street casting process to other countries, widening the scope of his collaboration.“
Brooklyn Museum Until May 24, 2015
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York
(Image: Shantavia Beale II, 2012. Oil on canvas)
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