Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “What I love in art is that it takes known combinations and reorders them in a way that sheds light on something that they have never seen before or allows to consider the world in a slightly different way.” – Kehinde Wiley ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kehinde Wiley’s portraits are succinct, impeccably executed, and brimming with pattern, they redirect the techniques of historical european portraiture to exhalt black and brown people from around the world. Lush textile-like designs or scenes referential to the history of the place in which the subjects exist serve as backdrops for figures, both celebrities and everyday people, who Wiley places into aesthetic and historical spaces of power. Born in Los Angeles in 1977 and based in New York, Wiley began his body of work by applying his signature mixture of naturalism and...