Menu

  • Art
  • Lifestyle
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Sustainability
  • Homepage
  • Whitewall Presents
  • Whitewaller
  • Insiders

Subscribe to the Newsletter

Subscribe to the Magazine
Tod’s

Presents

Tod’s
LOEWE 2023 Salone del Mobile

Milan

LOEWE Chairs
LOEWE 2023 Salone del Mobile
Maria SharapovaMaria Sharapova

Newsletter

Go inside the worlds of art, fashion, design, and lifestyle.

Ok
Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-OlaleyeCarl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye
Highline Stages mural commission by Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye; courtesy of New York Academy of Art.
Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-OlaleyeCarl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye
Highline Stages mural commission by Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye; courtesy of New York Academy of Art.
Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-OlaleyeCarl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye
Highline Stages mural commission by Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye; courtesy of New York Academy of Art.
Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-OlaleyeCarl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye
Highline Stages mural commission by Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye; courtesy of New York Academy of Art.
Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-OlaleyeCarl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye
Highline Stages mural commission by Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye; courtesy of New York Academy of Art.
Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-OlaleyeCarl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye
Highline Stages mural commission by Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye; courtesy of New York Academy of Art.
Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-OlaleyeCarl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye
Highline Stages mural commission by Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye; courtesy of New York Academy of Art.
Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-OlaleyeCarl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye
Highline Stages mural commission by Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye; courtesy of New York Academy of Art.
Art

Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye Paint Juneteenth Mural at Highline Stages

By whitewall

June 19, 2020

In honor of Juneteenth, Alina Lundry’s Highline Stages has commissioned a special mural, completed yesterday in the Meatpacking district in New York. Coinciding with the commemoration of Freedom Day, the mural was created by two artists from the New York Academy of Art (NYAA), Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye.

Keita and Adesanya-Olaleye created four large-scale works that fill the windows of a building in the New York City neighborhood. Scenes include a figure with multiple faces, reminiscent of a cultural mask; and a pig intertwined with donuts. Keita is a draughtsman from Cote d’Ivoire, attending the academy’s MFA program, and Adesanya-Olaleye is a Nigerian-American painter and recent graduate, who was a recipient of the Mickalene Thomas Scholarship.

Open Gallery

Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-OlaleyeCarl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye
Highline Stages mural commission by Carl Keita and Oluwatosin Adesanya-Olaleye; courtesy of New York Academy of Art.

Highline Stages was conceived with innovation in arts in mind and is home to a suite of sound stages, green screens, cycloramas, and other creative spaces for photographers, filmmakers, artists, and designers.

artistsJuneteenth

Recommended

Our ValuesContactAdvertiseTerms
© Whitewall 2020

Go inside the worlds of art, fashion, design, and lifestyle.

Subscribe to the Newsletter