NEW YORK: Characterized by his contemporary
presentations of African American men in unfamiliar
scenarios including “fallen warriors, saints, and classical
mythology”, Kehinde Wiley recently began his third
solo show at SoHo’s Deitch Projects. Seven young men
from Brooklyn each posed for a series of paintings
as you see a strong juxtaposition of the men’s
contemporary looks against the noticeably
inconsistent styles of the backdrops which reference
“fallen warriors and saints that appeared in the
old 18th and 19th century paintings of Holbein,
Mantegna, Houdon, Maderno, Retout and Clesinger”.
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