St. Nicholas of Myra, 2015 Wiley systematically re-stages traditional icon paintings and classic paintings from Western art history, replacing the mostly white/Euro- centric figures with all contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean, and African-American protagonists. The artist regularly uses ordinary people he meets on the street as his models, rewriting the Western art canon to include a more inclusive spectrum of heroes. This image re-imagines Saint Nicholas of Myra as a young black man from the streets of Brooklyn.
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