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There's no mistaking a Kehinde Wiley portrait: vivid colors, old masters styling. Here Wiley replaces historical figures with contemporary Black figures; the same technique he deployed to paint former President Barack Obama for the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery."Kea Loha Mahuta II" is part of a new series of portraits of Tahiti's Māhū community, a group of Polynesians who identify as third gender people, styled after Gaugin's famous Tahitian paintings.
Lavar Munroe's"Church in the Wild" is from his series"Redbones," which illustrates that when our skin is removed, we are all the same underneath. The 37-year-old's art is influenced by his homeland of the Bahamas, where he had a 10-year retrospective at the National Gallery. Munroe has shown at the Venice Biennale and his work currently hangs at the Perez Museum in Miami."Marcus Brutus Campus Clique" Acrylic on linen.
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