Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Under-Song for a Cipher

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The lush oil paintings of London-based totally Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) include a few of the conventions of historical European portraiture, however expand on that tradition by engaging fictional subjects who ceaselessly function protagonists of the artist’s short stories as smartly.

These imagined figures are almost at all times black, an attribute Yiadom-Boakye sees as both political and autobiographical, given her own West African heritage. Her sublime characters come to life in the course of the artist’s bold brushwork, appearing both cavalier and nonchalant. This catalog accompanying her New Museum exhibition features an interview with the artist by Natalie Bell and Massimiliano Gioni, new reflections on Yiadom-Boakye’s work by artist Chris Ofili, and art historians Elena Fillipovic and Robert Storr.

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