Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Born in 1977, in United Kingdom
Lives and works in Londres (United Kingdom)

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye was born in London from native Ghanaian parents. Trained at the Royal Academy School, the artist has devoted herself to painting since 2006.

Biography

Degas, Manet, Walter Sickert are her main influences. "I wasn't intimidated by these painters. It made it easier. I had so much to see and learn from them." She only paints portraits or rather "suggestions of people". Her subjects are fictions written with a brush by a painter who also writes. In the studio, she invents a community of memories and wishes. His creations appear as characters in a silent dialogue (the two men from the diptych of Pale for the rapture, 2016) or the invented memory of a suspended moment (All Manner of Comforts, 2016). Most of her characters are black: "It would be a lot stranger, I think, if [my] subjects were white. After all, I was raised by blacks [...]. For me, that feeling of a kind of normality isn't necessarily a celebration, it's more of a general conception of normality. It's a political gesture. We're used to looking at portraits of white people in painting. "

Bibliographic resources

Bradley, Rizwana, « The Quiet Bohemia of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's Paintings = Die ruhige Boheme der Gemälde von Lynette Yiadom-Boakye », Parkett, n° 99, p. 58-73, 2017, 12 p.

Gad, Amira. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye : verses after dusk, [Exhibition,Serpentine Gallery, London, June 2 - September 13, 2015]. London : König Books, 2015.

Cooke, Rachel, « Lynette Yiadom-Boakye : artist in search of the mystery figure », theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/may/31/lynette-yiadom-boakye-painter-out-of-time-and-space, [consulté le 21 mars 2017], 31/05/2015, 4 p.

Hirsch, Faye, « The Portraitist », The New York Times, 28/06/2015, 1 p.

Higgie, Jennifer, « A Life in a Day : The fictitious portraits of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye », Frieze, n° 146, couverture et p. 86-91, avril 2012, 7 p.

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*Pale For The Rapture*, 2016

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

*All Manner Of Comforts*, 2016

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

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From 26 April 2017 to 4 September 2017

The continent, artists and cultural influence of Africa are today essential to understanding the world’s artistic landscape.

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