The portrait of Obama's face will be 445 feet long by 264 ... But he added that the art project is his alone, without help from any political organization or campaign, and he won't be paid for ...

Kehinde Wiley, the renowned American painter behind the official portrait of President Barack Obama hanging in the Smithsonian ... star portraitist at a 2007 art show and was “flattered ...

Wiley is a New York painter who became a star in the art world ... He's also painted portraits of celebrities, including ...