Kehinde Wiley
Text by Eugenie Tsai, Connie H. Choi, Insoo Cho, Elizabeth Armstrong, Richard Aste.
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 tradition. Celebrated for his classically styled paintings that depict African American men in heroic poses, Kehinde Wiley is among the expanding ranks of prominent black artists--such as Sanford Biggers, Yinka Shonibare, Mickalene Thomas, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye--who are reworking art history and questioning its depictions of people of color.
Co-published with the Brooklyn Museum of Art for the major touring retrospective, this volume surveys Kehinde Wiley's career from 2001 to the present. It includes early portraits of the men Wiley observed on Harlem's streets, and which laid the foundation for his acclaimed reworkings of Old Master paintings by Titian, van Dyke, Manet, and others, in which he replaces historical subjects with young African American men in contemporary attire: puffy jackets, sneakers, hoodies, and baseball caps. Also included is a generous selection from Wiley's ongoing World Stage project; several of his enormous Down paintings; striking male portrait busts in bronze; and examples from the artist's new series of stained glass windows. Accompanying the illustrations are essays that introduce readers to the arc of Wiley's career, its critical reception, and ongoing evolution.
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic accompanies the artist's solo exhibition at Brooklyn Museum (February 13 - May 17, 2015); Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas (September 20, 2015 - January 10, 2016); Seattle Art Museum, Washington (February 11 - May 8, 2016); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia (June 11 – September 5, 2016); Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona (October 7, 2016 - January 8, 2017); Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio (February 10 - May 14, 2017); Oklahoma City Museum of Art (June 17 - September 10, 2017).
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic is curated by Eugenie Tsai, the John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Previously Tsai was Director of Curatorial Affairs at the PS1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens, New York, and Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs for New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art. Connie H. Choi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. She has contributed to several books, including Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980 (Prestel).
Published by Prestel, New York, New York, 2015
Format: Hardcover, 10.4 x 12.4 inches / 192 pages / 123 color images
English
ISBN: 9783791354309
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Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, a retrospective of the artist’s prolific career featuring sixty paintings and sculptures. Kehinde Wiley’s work raises questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the conventions of traditional European portraiture.
Kehinde Wiley is one of the leading American artists to emerge in the last decade and he has been ingeniously reworking the grand portraiture traditions.