Artist of Week: Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977, CA)

Kehinde Wiley is certainly the Artist of Week. With this week's opening at the Jewish Museum of New York, the Los Angeles native and New York-based visual artist has firmly cemented himself within history's religious arts tradition. He is the contemporary descendent of a long line of religious portraitists--including Rubens, Velázquez, Titian, and others--Wiley engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic, and sublime in his representation of urban black and brown men found throughout the world. To read more about Kehinde Wiley, and other US religious artists, visit US Artists.