New Yorker Kehinde Wiley is easily one of contemporary art’s hottest young stars. Just recently, he enjoyed a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum and was featured on the cover of Art in America. By almost any measure — we stress almost since artists as young as 12-years-old are currently showing in major D.C. galleries — Wiley is a young artist, still a couple of years away from his 30th birthday. There is a lot…

Jammed packed with cells in various stages of development, Teo Gonzalez’s minimalist paintings are something of an obsessive pursuit. Fortunately for Gonzalez, his meticulous efforts have recently been rewarded by his work being acquired by major museums on both coasts (MoMA, LACMA and NGA). D.C. art enthusiasts have until Saturday to catch Gonzalez’s current solo show at Irvine Contemporary Art in Dupont Circle and see for themselves what all the fuss is about. Gonzalez’s paintings…