Jason Moorer- Final Post: High 5 to the Archive and Kehinde Wiley

Kehinde Wiley is an African-American artist who paints highly realistic portraits or African-American men that are recast as heroic icons, kings, saints, prophets that can be seen in early European portraiture. Usually the men are juxtaposed with a rich textile or wallpaper. His work mirrors portraiture during the high renaissance.

These are previews of my drawings for the archive project. I took the archive assignment literally and wanted to create works that were directly derived from my personal research archive and not just create a work just for assignment purposes. My work is collaged inspired and I often deal with things like appropriation, economic, social and cultural contexts. I made these series of collages of interior spaces, juxtaposed with texture and subject. I was inspired by Kehinde Wiley's relationship between the figures and the prints/textures.