Brooklyn Museum's 'Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic' Is A Must See

Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, opens Friday, February 20; through May 24, 2015 at the Brooklyn Museum and is definetly a must see. The exhibition features more than sixty impressive paintings, sculptures and stained glass windows by one amazing artist —Kehinde Wiley. He skillfully uses black and brown male models dressed in everyday urban attire; then transforms them into larger-than-life, historic, confident, mighty, magnificent men of prominence.

Wiley, who received his MFA degree from Yale University and is an Artist-in-Residence at Harlem’s Studio Museum, began studying art at eleven in California. As a child, Wiley noticed the absence of black images in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Today, he mainly paints African Americans because he wants viewers to recognize and appreciate diversity and world culture. Wiley’s exhibit title, A New Republic, places men and women of color prominently back into history using powerful and colorful imagery. This Brooklyn exhibition includes a selection of his World Stage paintings. The artist uses an international view traveling from Senegal to Dakar, from Haiti to Jamaica and from Rio de Janeiro to Sri Lanka.

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“Brooklyn is now one of the world’s creative capitals. Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic is the most recent of our many exhibitions over the past years showcasing art created by the brightest and most talented based in the borough and now applauded worldwide. Most of all, a major Brooklyn shout-out to Kehinde Wiley, whose talent and exuberance inspires us all,” says Brooklyn Museum Director Arnold L. Lehman.

Visit the Brooklyn Museum today. You are in for a treat. Also visit the artist’s website at Kehindewiley.com.