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[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.
Kehinde Wiley
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Kehinde Wiley
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 28
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Mel [ Bochner] held large-form meetings with students. But the stronger points came through when we had the one-on-one critiques. And that's the system that works at Yale. There's the group critiques, and then there's the one-on-one critiques that happen in studio.
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I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to.
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I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.
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That should be something that an artist can respond to as well in terms of a painting.
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When you're at your best, you're analyzing yourself and becoming increasingly isolated from a broader narrative.
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He's a great - he's a great professor. He retired recently, but.But Peter Halley as well.
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There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about allowing the powerless to tell their own story.
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