I'm about looking at each of those perceived menacing black men that you see in the streets all over the place, people that you oftentimes will walk past without assuming that they have the same humanity, fears that we all do.
The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.
My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by which you can understand others.
You don't hire Kehinde Wiley to have a tame painting.
At the core, every artist, no matter what his subject matter happens to be, has to be someone doing the looking. I began to really interrogate the act of looking.
In the field of aesthetic theory, humans are pattern-seeking creatures. That can be seen in terms of musical structures, patternmaking, even in terms of storytelling and literature.
