"there is an institutional urgency to speak to a more diverse audience with painting that depicts the black community, the Asian-American experience, the Latino face, to attract the various people who had been excluded from the museum by remaking the history of figurative painting, this time with color."

-Dushko Petrovich

The art world is often testament to the best of culture—and the people who make decisions in this world aren’t often people of color. “My work does away with that system and problematizes that system,” Wiley said. “Eventually you want to see yourself in that narrative.”- Kehinde Wiley, Java Magazine