...Daniel Haxall In 1997 Kehinde Wiley made his first trip to Africa to meet his father, a Nigerian man he had never known. This journey resonated deeply with the artist, who returned several times and established a studio practice there. Wiley documented each visit through portraiture, creating...

...Jody B. Cutler Since the turn of the new millennium, Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977), American celeb artist of the moment, has delivered a broadly appealing oeuvre to the center of the art world on a silver platter. Like other fans, a majority of art cognoscenti have been seduced by Wiley’s celebratory...

...Dereck Conrad Murray Copyright © 2007 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2007 KEHINDE WILEY SPLENDID BODIES Dereck Conrad Murray...

... African motifs, the reappropriation of stereotypi• world? American painter Kehinde Wiley noted 88* Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art this tendency as well and, during a recent inter• have now been codified. And then, there's a view, located this shift in a need to articulate...

... into a completely different trajectory on the exact same canvas. We find ourselves looking back to the future, and this is precisely what makes Mehretu s work as wonder- fully enigmatic as it is aesthetically appealing. Kehinde Wiley s The World Stage series, also featured in Fresh Paint, involves setting up satel...

..., in visual form, in which the Exhibit of American Negroes displayed a massive quantity of material in a compact twelve-foot-square space in the Palace of Social Economy during the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900. The final text relates to Sonya Clark s time at Kehinde Wiley s Black Rock residency in Dakar...

... and philosophical connections between African heritage and liberation and Black American identity. The impetus for African American artists to enrich their work and participate in an international cross-fertilization of ideas in Africa continues to grow. Artist Kehinde Wiley founded his luxe Black Rock residency...

.... Others, such as Marlene Dumas, António Ole, Nari Ward, Fred Okwui Enwezor, Wilson, Yto Barrada, Wangechi Mutu, Meschac Salah M. Hassan, Gaba, Theaster Gates, Rashid Johnson, Kara Walker, Chika Okeke-Agulu Whitfield Lovell, Julie Mehretu, Kehinde Wiley, and Lalla Essaydi, are now frequently cited...

... brushstrokes; and the canvases monumental scale, these paintings foreground their own self-awareness, purposefulness, and intensity. Producing an effect reminis- cent of Kehinde Wiley s colossal por- traits, Casteel has noted that there is activism in the intentionality and the scale of my work. Everyone...

... of the African American painter limitation in accounting for exoticism, black subjectiv• Kehinde Wiley. Finally, Michael D. Harris draws our ity, and the representation of blackness in the context attention to McArthur Freeman's paintings which of the tenuous relationship between black and white...

.... Equally, artistic ventures to Africa remain an important dimension to this process. Kehinde Wiley s testimony recalling the catalyst to his founding Black Rock in Dakar, Senegal, exudes an uncanny resemblance to Biggers s own virgin voyage. Wiley writes, It was my first visit to Africa and I...

... Professor of African and African Diaspora Art, Director of Program in African Studies, and Director of Africa World Initiative at Princeton University. Notes 1 I am thinking here of Yinka Shonibare, David Adjaye, Barthelemy Toguo, Aida Muluneh, Yto Barrada, Michael Armitage, Kehinde Wiley and others. 2...