Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Brazil and systems of symbolic exchange

and systems of symbolic exchange

California (January 12 – February 23

and Hannah Klemm

highlighting works Orange Shirt (2020)

An explosion of spiked fluorescent pink hair precariously balanced atop a young girl’s head

Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Brazil and systems of symbolic exchangeText by Brian Keith Jackson, Kimberly Cleveland, Ph. D. This volume includes a selection of 22 new portrait paintings from Kehinde Wiley's multinational World Stage series, which has included Africa, China and India in the past and now moves on to Brazil. Immersing himself in the local culture of Rio de Janeiro, Wiley incorporates the people, history and aesthetic of the city in each of his monumental male portraits. His models, chosen from the favela