VISIONARY| OFFERING
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VISIONARY is a online interview project that profiles individuals who are using culture to urgently, innovatively and daringly re-imagine how we live this existence. Through engaging each artist’s greatest visions and deepest fears it seeks to sustain, document, share and ultimately transform how we live and feel about community as individuals internationally.

OFFERING is a section of VISIONARY that profiles art that is shared outside traditional gallery and museum settings.  It seeks to document exciting and innovative work that artists and others have decided to share within free mass culture locations including television, internet and public street spaces.

VISIONARY is a REBORN project.

| OFFERING | KEHINDE WILEY
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Kehinde Wiley 
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"The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar is Kehinde Wiley’s (b. 1977) first solo exhibition at The Studio Museum in Harlem and features ten new paintings from his multinational “The World Stage” series. Wiley is known for his stylized paintings of young, urban African-American men in poses borrowed from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European figurative paintings, a practice he started in the early 2000s while an artist in residence at the Studio Museum. Over the last two years, Wiley has expanded his project by living and working abroad; he temporarily relocates to different countries and opens satellite studios to become familiar with local culture, history and art. His “The World Stage” series is the result of these travels."  - The Studio Museum of Harlem ________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NEXT EVENT
The Artist’s Voice: Kehinde Wiley
-American men in poses borrowed from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European figurative paintings, a practice he started in the early 2000s while an artist in residence at the Studio Museum. Over the last two years, Wiley has expanded his project by living and working abroad; he temporarily relocates to different countries and opens satellite studios to become familiar with local culture, history and art. His “The World Stage” series is the result of these travels."  - The Studio Museum of Harlem

The Artist’s Voice is FREE. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Studio Museum in Harlem
144 West 125th Street, New York, New York 10027
tel 212.864.4500 fax 212.864.4800

July 17—October 26, 2008