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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Lynette_Yiadom-BoakyeLynette Yiadom-Boakye - Wikipedia

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   Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) is a British painter and writer, of Ghanaian heritage. She is best known for her portraits of imaginary subjects, or ones derived from found objects, which are painted in muted colours. Her work has contributed to the renaissance in painting the Black figure.

   • Born: 1977, London, United Kingdom
   • Nationality: British

   • Known for: Painting, writing

2. www.tate.org.uk › art › artistsAn Introduction to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye | Tate

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   An Introduction to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. From her imagined figures to her poetic titles, discover this figurative painter’s work. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Condor And The Mole 2011 Arts Council Collection (London, UK) © Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is best-known for her large-scale, figurative oil paintings.

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     Lynette Yiadom-Boakye | Turner Prize Nominee 2013 | TateShots

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     Artist talks with Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

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4. www.artnet.com › artists › lynette-yiadom-boakyeLynette Yiadom-Boakye | Artnet

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   Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a contemporary British portrait painter and 2013 Turner Prize finalist. View Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s 115 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.

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5. www.nytimes.com › lynette-yiadom-boakyeLynette Yiadom-Boakye's Subjects Are All in Her Head - The ...

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   Dec 16, 2020 · By Siddhartha Mitter. Dec. 16, 2020. The British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a committed painter of people. Every piece she shows is, on first impression, a portrait — a careful study of...

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   Who is Lynette Yiadom-Boakye?

   • Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) is a British painter and writer, of Ghanaian heritage. She is best known for her portraits of imaginary subjects, or ones derived from found objects, which are painted in muted colours. Her work has contributed to the renaissance in painting the Black figure. Her paintings often are presented in solo exhibitions.

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   • Yiadom-Boakye lives and works in London, UK. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a contemporary British portrait painter and 2013 Turner Prize finalist. View Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s 113 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.

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   Are Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's paintings 'outside of history and Beyond Geography'?

   • Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's mysterious paintings of people who never existed are "outside of history and beyond geography", writes Kelly Grovier, as a major new exhibition of her work opens in London. Some portraits offer snapshots of their era – faces frozen in time and place, petrified in their perishability. A rare few feel torn from eternity.

   Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's portraits that question history - BBC

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   Who is Yiadom-Boakye?

   • With her expressive representations of the human figure, Yiadom-Boakye examines the formal mechanisms of the medium of painting and reveals political and psychological dimensions in her works, which focus on imaginary characters who exist beyond our world in a different time and in an unknown location.

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7. www.dailyartmagazine.com › lynette-yiadom-boakyeA Deeper Look Into Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's Painting ...

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   Feb 20, 2024 · In recent years the British-Ghanaian artist has emerged as a distinctive voice in the contemporary art scene, and she is nowadays recognized as a pivotal figure in redefining the representation of Black figures in painting.

8. www.bbc.com › culture › articleLynette Yiadom-Boakye's portraits that question history - BBC

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   Jan 17, 2023 · Endangered but not extinct, that visionary flair has survived to our own age in the canvases of British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, whose arresting portraits, if portraits they might be...

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10. www.moma.org › artists › 46962Lynette Yiadom-Boakye | MoMA

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    Yiadom-Boakye enlivens and complicates browns with purples, hot pinks, yellows, ochers, greens, and blues that lie just beneath the surface. In the process, she replicates not the look of skin but its character, its ability to reflect and absorb light, its elasticity and its tautness.