KEHINDE WILEY

Major Sculpture by Renowned Artist Kehinde Wiley Coming to New DOORWAYS Campus; A Long-Term Loan from the Gateway Foundation

DOORWAYS is thrilled to announce that a major sculptural commission by Kehinde Wiley, one of the nation's leading artists, will be permanently sited on our new Campus. The impressive work, titled Rumors of War, will make our new campus on the North Side of St. Louis a landmark in public art and social consciousness.

The work is a generous long-term loan to DOORWAYS from the St. Louis-based Gateway Foundation.

Wiley has been well recognized for his large-scale portrait paintings, which feature African American men and women wearing contemporary dress in poses based on well-known images of historical Western artworks - most often royals and generals. He garnered even more renown for painting the official Presidential portrait of President Barack Obama, which now hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.