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It positions ALL MATRIXED ARTISTS within close, sign-posted steps of each other, irrespective of locale and degree of fame.
A happy corollary: Matrixed artists are by this m.o. rendered within-steps accessible by EVERYBODY ELSE TOO, from Tokyo to Tremé to Timbuktu...
...signed, sealed, delivered, it's yours! From Brazil, with love! sparrowroberts@gmail.com
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Kehinde Wiley
- City: New York City
- Country: United States
- Hometown: Los Angeles, California
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Los Angeles native and New York based visual artist, Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history’s portrait painting tradition. As a contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists, including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres, among others, Wiley, engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic and the sublime in his representation of urban, black and brown men found throughout the world.
By applying the visual vocabulary and conventions of glorification, history, wealth and prestige to the subject matter drawn from the urban fabric, the subjects and stylistic references for his paintings are juxtaposed inversions of each other, forcing ambiguity and provocative perplexity to pervade his imagery. Wiley’s larger than life figures disturb and interrupt tropes of portrait painting, often blurring the boundaries between traditional and contemporary modes of representation and the critical portrayal of masculinity and physicality as it pertains to the view of black and brown young men.
Initially, Wiley’s portraits were based on photographs taken of young men found on the streets of Harlem. As his practice grew, his eye led him toward an international view, including models found in urban landscapes throughout the world – such as Mumbai, Senegal, Dakar and Rio de Janeiro, among others – accumulating to a vast body of work called, “The World Stage.” The models, dressed in their everyday clothing most of which are based on the notion of far-reaching Western ideals of style, are asked to assume poses found in paintings or sculptures representative of the history of their surroundings.
This juxtaposition of the “old” inherited by the “new” – who often have no visual inheritance of which to speak – immediately provides a discourse that is at once visceral and cerebral in scope. Without shying away from the complicated socio-political histories relevant to the world, Wiley’s figurative paintings and sculptures “quote historical sources and position young black men within the field of power.” His heroic paintings evoke a modern style instilling a unique and contemporary manner, awakening complex issues that many would prefer remain mute.
My Media
- ▶ Twitter: kehindewileyart
- ▶ Instagram: kehindewiley
- ▶ Website: http://kehindewiley.com
- ▶ Website 2: http://www.absolutart.com/se/kehinde-wiley/
- ▶ Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/arts/design/kehinde-wiley-senegal.html
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