KEHINDE WILEY

The latest in the World Stage series of portraits by Kehinde Wiley (born 1977), this volume presents 13 new paintings, the result of the artist's trip to Haiti-a nation that is often presented as a place of chronic poverty, corruption and deprivation. In Haiti Wil ey actively went looking for beauty, staging pageants to cast his portrait subjects and advertising with open calls on the radio and posters put up in the streets of Jacmel, Jalouise and Port-au-Prince. Wiley worked within the tradition of pageant culture native t o the Ca...[Read more]