The Gift Guide

This limited edition skate deck features Kehinde Wiley's 2008 painting, Femme Piquée Par Un Serpent Study III from his notable series, DOWN. This unique deck showcases the artist's reinterpretation of Auguste Clésinger’s 1847 sculpture of the same title, with Wiley's distinctive touch. Wiley's 2008 painting brings this iconic image to life on a high-quality skateboard deck, capturing the essence of vulnerability and sensuality. The central figure, clad in blue jeans, an orange hoodie, and a gold chain, reclines on a linen-clothed table, head tilted towards the viewer in a provocative stance. The exposed underwear hints at the vulnerability and eroticism of being off one's feet, turning a seemingly powerless moment into a bold artistic statement. -Cotton dust bag included in every order-Hand-numbered, editions of 400-100% sustainably sourced hard rock maple- 8"W x 31.875 L Designed in New York City. Made in Oceanside.  Net proceeds from your purchase support the artists-in-residence ......

This limited edition skate deck features Kehinde Wiley's 2008 painting Morpheus, reimagined from the Jean-Antoine Houdon 1777 marble sculpture of the same name. Feautred in the 2008 exhibition DOWN at Deitch Projects, the series references and re-conceptualizes classic pictorial forms of heroism in the face of death. Morpheus features a model from Brooklyn, lain across a while sheet while florals from the background spring into life around his body. Unlike its 18th century counterpart, he addresses onlookers with direct eye contact and a seductive look of invitation, with the repeating floral background protruding into the foreground. -Cotton dust bag included in every order-Hand-numbered, editions of 400-100% sustainably sourced hard rock maple- 8"W x 31.875 L Designed in New York City. Made in Oceanside.  Net proceeds from your purchase support the artists-in-residence program Black Rock Sénégal, founded by Wiley in 2019....

This open edition 2023 leather basketball features Kehinde Wiley’s 2013 painting John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester from the artist's series The World Stage: Jamaica. First exhibited at Stephen Friedman Gallery in London, Wiley, using his notorious street casting method, places contemporary Jamaican natives in heroic poses that reference directly from 17th and 18th century British portraiture and feature background patterns inspired by British textiles. The body of works offers a corrective to the omission of the black figure from art history and specifically comments on the nature of the relationship between the United Kingdom and its former colonial holding. Wiley’s exhibition The World Stage: Jamaica is part of a broader project titled "The World Stage," which presents portraits of black and brown men and women the artist met in China, Brazil, Nigeria, Haiti, Israel, and India.  Regulation size, premium leather basketball Oiled pine basketball plinth with laser cut Kehinde Wiley......

This hardcover notebook features Kehinde Wiley’s 2009 painting Fall, from The World Stage: Brazil series. Models were sourced locally, from the surrounding Rio de Janeiro area, some of which were recruited at Petrobras Espaco Cultural Nos do moro, a non-profit school for the Arts where many actors from the 2003 Academy Award nominated film City of God were discovered. Ivory-colored paper (70g/m2, acid free plain pages). Hardcover with elastic closure and rounded corners. Dimensions: 6"w x 8.25"d x .5"h. Net proceeds from your purchase support the artist in residence program Black Rock Sénégal, founded by Wiley in 2019.

This limited edition silk scarf features Kehinde Wiley's Portrait of Mame Kéwé Aminata Lô 2021. This is a painting from the body of work that Kehinde developed during the period of COVID-19. Kehinde spent this last year in quarantine at Black Rock Sénégal, the artist compound and residency program he opened in 2019 on the coast of Dakar, Sénégal. In the absence of any ability to follow his traditional streetcasting methods, which enable him to find models at random on the streets of New York and many other international cities around the world, Kehinde decided to focus on the people and friends of people immediately surrounding him in Dakar. As Kehinde describes them, "What follows are a series of portraits that I might consider friends and family of Black Rock."Mame Kéwé Aminata Lô works at Black Rock Sénégal. She is posed here wearing a dress by Senegalese fashion designer Sarah Diouf and depicted amidst a sea of chrysanthemums that have been arranged in reference to a British Mo......

Our limited edition Green Leaf umbrella uniquely features not one but two of Kehinde Wiley paintings. The mirrored fists are sampled from Three Wise Men Greeting Entry Into Lagos (2008), first exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem as a part of The World Stage: Africa, Lagos-Dakar series. The painting is in the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts permanent collection, and references the Art Deco statue Welcome to Lagos, which stood in Nigeria along the Lagos-Ibadan toll gate between 1991 to 2004. The green botanical background references a William Cooke wallpaper pattern from the late 19th century, featured in Wiley’s Lunch with Inettia, Lucemy and Soukenya (2021), which was shown in the group show Luncheon on the Grass at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in Los Angeles. The show featured multiple artists reimagination of Édouard Manet’s 1863 painting Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe. Hardwood handle, 100% Polyester, and 48" arc canopy. Designed in NYC. Made in China. Net proceeds from your purcha......

Heavy lucite basketball stand with beveled edges and engraved, Kehinde Wiley signature.  Ball sold separately Net proceeds from your purchase support the artist in residence program Black Rock Sénégal, founded by Wiley in 2019.