Kehinde Wiley in Cleveland

  Kehinde Wiley,

Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps (Self-Portrait),

Oil on canvas, 2005

 Artist

Kehinde Wiley

will speak at

Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium, Saturday August 29th

at 2:00. His beautiful work harks back to an earlier style while creating very modern portraits. Wiley’s recent one man exhibition at the

Brooklyn Museum

was very well received by the art world and the public, alike. The Cleveland lecture is part of the

Cleveland Public Library’s The Lockwood Thompson Dialogues

.

Kehinde Wiley

Triple Portrait of Charles I

, oil and enamel on canvas. Triptych, 2007, 

Rubell Family Collection, Miami