American Express Unveils New U.S. Consumer Platinum Card® Designs by World-Renowned Artists Julie Mehretu and Kehinde Wiley
December 02 2021 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Platinum Card Members can choose from two Art x
Platinum designs or the classic Platinum design beginning January
20, 2022
American Express today unveiled two new U.S. Consumer Platinum
Card designs by two highly-acclaimed artists, Julie Mehretu and
Kehinde Wiley, who transformed the Platinum Card into pieces of
art. The two new Art x Platinum designs will be available to new
and existing Platinum Card Members beginning January 20, 2022,
joining the classic Platinum design.
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American Express Unveils New U.S.
Consumer Platinum Card Designs by World-Renowned Artists Julie
Mehretu and Kehinde Wiley (Photo: Business Wire)
Platinum x Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu, one of the most renowned abstract artists today,
created the Platinum x Julie Mehretu, which evokes the abstract
modernity for which she is known.
“For me, making art comes from expanding the imagination and
possibility, the incredible feeling of inventiveness and vitality
that one can experience with a painting,” said Julie Mehretu. “Art
is all around us and I am delighted that a part of my work can now
be found on the smallest of canvases in Platinum Card Members’
wallets.”
Mehretu is known for her talismanic and profound works that link
architecture, identity and history while also advancing concepts
that are fundamental to art itself.
Platinum x Kehinde Wiley
Designed by Kehinde Wiley, a visionary portrait painter best
known for naturalistic portraits brought distinctive botanicals to
the Platinum Card design for Platinum x Kehinde Wiley, which
wonderfully captures the essence of his profound energy and
worldview.
“This was an exciting project and powerful experience for me to
translate my artistic approach into one of the reimagined designs
for the Platinum Card,” said Kehinde Wiley. “I am proud to help
Platinum Card Members enjoy a bit of artistic inspiration every
day.”
Wiley’s work engages signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic,
powerful, majestic and the sublime in his representation of diverse
individuals.
Early in their careers both Mehretu and Wiley participated in
The Studio Museum in Harlem’s prestigious Artist-in-Residence
program. American Express recently committed $1 million in
sponsorship of the museum’s work as one of the most important
incubators of artistic genius today.
U.S. Consumer Platinum Card Members will be able to order one of
the two new Art x Platinum designs beginning January 20, 2022.
This announcement follows the recently refreshed U.S. Consumer
Platinum Card, which provides Card Members with new lifestyle
benefits and experiences.
For more information about the Consumer Platinum Card, visit
americanexpress.com/Platinum.
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