LargeUp Feature: Kehinde Wiley Takes On Jamaica

Kehinde Wiley takes his classic nobility portraits to Jamaica, view his entire new exhibit.

LargeUp Feature: Kehinde Wiley Takes On Jamaica

Our Caribbean family over at LargeUp recently dove into Okayafrica favorite Kehinde Wiley's latest exhibition The World Stage: Jamaica,which launched this week at the Stephen Friedman Gallery in London. For his latest series, Kehinde took his classic nobility portraits of modern young black men to Jamaica,

>>>Read the review and see the full Kehinde Wiley exhibit over at LargeUp

"a place where moggling is a sport — [that is] perfectly suited to Wiley’s method, in which he casts for models literally on the street. The World Stage: Jamaica also differs from many of Wiley’s previous exhibitions in that it features a mixture of women and men— perhaps an acknowledgment of the assertive role females have always played in Jamaican society and public life."