When does an artist become a phenomenon? It’s a
rare moment on the scale of seeing a new star emerge in the night sky. Already
a rising art world star, American artist Kehinde
Wiley seems poised now at the age of 35 and after just a little over a
decade of work to take the next step and really heat things up. With not one but two big New
York City exhibitions, a featured appearance on a hot new album cover,
and the kind of retrospective,
lavishly illustrated, critically evaluative monograph that seals the deal,
Kehinde Wiley has the whole world in the palm of his hand, and that’s exactly
what he wants. Please come over to Picture This at Big Think to read more of "Why All Kehinde Wiley WantsIs the World."
[Image: Kehinde Wiley. The Virgin Martyr St. Cecilia, 2008. Oil on canvas. 101.5 x 226.5
in. © Kehinde Wiley.]
[Many thanks to Rizzoli USA for providing me with the image above and a review copy of the monograph Kehinde Wiley, by Thelma Golden, Sarah Lewis, Robert Hobbs, and Brian Keith Jackson. Many thanks also to Sean Kelly Gallery (whose exhibition Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace runs through June 16, 2012) and to The Jewish Museum, New York (whose exhibition Kehinde Wiley/The World Stage: Israel runs through July 29, 2012) for press materials.]
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