Friday, October 31st, 2008
Kehinde Wiley – Down
Kehinde Wiley’s new solo show opens tomorrow at Deitch Projects. For Down, Wiley will present seven new monolithic canvases, spanning up to twenty-five feet in length and representing his largest works to date.
For his third solo exhibition with Deitch Projects, “Wiley re-conceptualizes classic pictorial forms to create a contemporary version of monumental portraiture…Described by Wiley, Down is ‘an answer to the negative views of young Black men in American society. It recognizes an idiom that can be seen from a distance as a negative form transformed into something more fabulous and joyful…’ ” (excerpted from press release)
The new show opens in the wake of Wiley’s last New York exhibit, World Stage: Africa, Lagos-Dakar (previously reported), at the Studio Museum in Harlem, which closed last week and will travel to ArtPace in San Antonio, TX this coming January.
Kehinde Wiley – Down
Nov. 1 – Dec. 20
Deitch Projects
18 Wooster Street
New York, NY 10013
info@deitch.com
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