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'Kehinde Wiley: Saint Louis' on view now at Saint Louis Art Museum
Published 9:40 am CDT, Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Kehinde Wiley, American, born 1977; "Charles I," 2018; Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California © Kehinde Wiley Kehinde Wiley, American, born 1977; "Jacob de Graeff," 2018; Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California © Kehinde Wiley
Kehinde Wiley, American, born 1977; "Charles I," 2018; Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California © Kehinde Wiley Kehinde Wiley, American, born 1977; "Jacob de Graeff," 2018;
ST. LOUIS — "Kehinde Wiley: Saint Louis," a free exhibition of 11 commissioned portraits of people the artist met during a 2017 visit to St. Louis will be on view at the Saint Louis Art Museum through Feb. 10, 2019.
Kehinde Wiley creates large-scale oil paintings of contemporary African-American subjects that address the politics of race and power in art. Recalling the grand traditions of European and American portraiture, Wiley depicts his models in poses adapted from historic paintings. Wiley will discuss the exhibition and his practice in the museum's Farrell Auditorium at 7 pm on Friday. The museum will livestream the sold-out lecture on slam.org and Facebook.
Wiley studied the Saint Louis Art Museum collection to identify works he would reference in the exhibition. During a 2017 visit to St. Louis, he invited people he encountered in neighborhoods in north St. Louis and Ferguson to pose for the paintings.
"Kehinde uses works in the Saint Louis Art Museum's collection as a starting point for observations about race and representation throughout the history of art," said Brent R. Benjamin, the Barbara B. Taylor Director of the Saint Louis Art Museum. "We are extraordinarily honored to collaborate with Kehinde on this exhibition."
Wiley is the first African-American artist to paint an official portrait of a U.S. President for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. The portrait of Barack Obama was unveiled in February.
Wiley has held solo exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum (2015), Jewish Museum in New York (2012), Columbus Museum of Art (2006) and Studio Museum in Harlem (2008), among others. His works are included in such public collections as the Denver Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, and Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
"Kehinde Wiley: Saint Louis" is curated by Simon Kelly, curator of modern and contemporary art, and Hannah Klemm, assistant curator of modern and contemporary art, with Molly Moog, research assistant. The exhibition is supported by a grant from the Trio Foundation of St. Louis.
In addition to the opening lecture, the museum will offer an array of exhibition-related programming, including family programs, gallery talks and an exhibition-themed SLAM Underground.
Hannah Klemm, a co-curator of the exhibition, and Yvonne Osei, an artist and curator-in-residence at the Center of Creative Arts, will discuss Wiley's artistic process at "Kehinde Wiley: Process and Presence," a free gallery talk at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 8, and 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 9. Space is limited.
In addition to these free programs, the museum will offer a small-class workshop led by Jade Powers, assistant curator of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. "(Re)Shaping the History of Abstraction and Representation" will focus on works by Kehinde Wiley in relation to artists in the museum's collection, such as Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu, Louis Cameron, Stanley White, Jack Whitten and Al Loving. The workshop will be offered twice on Saturday, Nov. 3 — from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Tickets for the workshop cost $15. Tickets are available in-person at the museum or through MetroTix, which charges a service fee of $3 per ticket.
The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the nation's leading comprehensive art museums with collections that include works of art of exceptional quality from virtually every culture and time period. Areas of notable depth include Oceanic art, pre-Columbian art, ancient Chinese bronzes and European and American art of the late 19th and 20th centuries, with particular strength in 20th-century German art. Admission to the Saint Louis Art Museum is free to all every day. For more information, call 314-721-0072 or visit slam.org.
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