With his golden halo and gentle gaze, the man on the pedestal in the stained-glass window looks like a medieval Christian saint. But the high-top sneakers and white hoodie give it away; this is the work of the artist Kehinde Wiley.
Wiley’s portraits of young black men and other people of color — rendered in oil paintings, bronze, stained glass and video — are deliberately at odds with many images common in American mass media. A new exhibition on view until May 24 at the Brooklyn Museum offers a retrospective of his work over the last decade and, for many who attend it, continues the discussion on race and justice begun by the Black Lives Matter movement.