McKINLEY WILEY
Photography is a tool of connection, story and memory. Born, raised and rooted in Cleveland, Ohio I document the intergenerational experience through portraiture and film. I’ll always be shooting.
Alongside these images I am revisiting decades of work, reinterpreting the archives through a multi-disciplinary approach in my studio.
I’m in my Phoenix Season. New work is rising.
After 20+ years behind the lens, these explorations in monoprinting overlaid with painting, collage, and abstraction juxtapose the “reality” of portraiture with the unique and unpredictable nature of the technique. I’m never 100% sure how they will come out, or if I’ll be completely satisfied with the result. As I reimagine these works I’m holding the questions: What am I seeing now? What am I saying now?
My art is an extension of myself and a love
offering to anyone willing to receive it.