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KEHINDE WILEY: A New Republic'Must-see' exhibition now open at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts! |
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Colonel Platoff on His Charger, Kehinde Wile, 2007–8. Oil on canvas, 122 x 122 in. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Gift of the Director’s Council and Museum purchase, 2008. © Kehinde Wiley |
Shantavia Beale II, Kehinde Wiley, 2012. Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 in. Collection of Ana and Lenny Gravier, courtesy Sean Kelly, New York. © Kehinde Wiley. (Photo: Jason Wyche) |
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On June 11, 2016, the stunning retrospective of Wiley’s prolific career, comes to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic is a comprehensive survey of the artist’s range of work, through nearly 60 paintings and sculptures. It includes his early portrait paintings, inspired by his observation of street life in Harlem and set to the visual language of classical European portraiture, as well as his recent explorations in sculpture and stained glass. Wiley was born in Los Angeles, received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 1999, and an MFA from Yale University in 2001. His works are in the collections of over forty museums, including LA's Museum of Contemporary Art and Hammer Museum, NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Seattle Art Museum. Wiley has had solo exhibitions at the Phoenix Art Museum, the Columbus Museum of Art, and in NY at the Jewish Museum and the Studio Museum of Harlem. He was recently commissioned with “ART in Embassies” to create a monumental painting for the new U. S. Embassy in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic will be on view at VMFA through September 5, 2016.
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