155. LYNETTE
YIADOM-BOAKYE
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Lynette
Yiadom Boakye
Diplomacy II 2009 Oil on linen 190 x 250 cm |
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Lynette
Yiadom Boakye
Grammy 2003 oil on canvas 280 x 180 cm |
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Lynette
Yiadom Boakye
Politics 2005 oil on canvas 183 x 168 cm |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1977, London
Nowadays:
Lives and works in London
Studies:
1996–1997
St Martins School of Art
and Design
1997–2000
Falmouth College of Art
2000–2003
Royal Academy Schools
Themes and
style:
Her paintings are predominantly figurative with
raw and muted colours. She assembles images from scrapbooks, drawings, and her
imagination into lush compositions of human figures.
Techniques:
Wendy White creates mixed-media works, incorporating
awnings, disused store front signage, digitally manipulated photographs, and
found objects into her acrylic and spray painted canvases.
Exhibitions
Yiadom-Boakye has shown work internationally in exhibitions,
including the Gwangju Biennale, Korea; Flow at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New
York and M25. Around London at the CCA Andratz, Mallorca; the Seville Biennale
2006 and others including John Moores 23 at the Walker Gallery in Liverpool,
Direct Painting at Kunsthalle Mannheim in Germany, 2004 Bloomberg New
Contemporaries at various venues throughout the UK and Blackout at Brixton Art
Gallery. In 2006, she won The Arts Foundation Fellowship for Painting. She is
represented by The Corvi-Mora Gallery in London and by the Jack Shainman
Gallery in New York.
In 2013 Yiadom-Boakye was nominated for the Turner Prize for
her 2012 exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery in East London
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Representative
Galleries:
Jack Shaiman
In
her own words:
“People
are tempted to politicize the fact that I paint black figures, and the
complexity of this is an essential part of the work. But my starting point is
always the language of painting itself and how that relates to the subject matter.”
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