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Peer Review notes:
- exact birthdate
- international recognition
- personal life
- more info on art education and curriculum
- picture of artist
- more info to lead
Edit Notes:
- Her childhood life
- Inspiration
- Writings and artwork
- Pictures of the artist
- Email her gallery, waiting to hear back - Amber didn't work out :(
- Writings
- Awards
- Art market
- Critical Reviews of her work
- Contact the gallery about a head shot of Lynette
Lead[edit]
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) is a British painter and writer. She is best known for her portraits of imaginary subjects, or ones derived from found objects, who are painted in muted colors. Her work has contributed to the renaissance in painting the Black figure. Her paintings often are presented in solo exhibitions. Often she uses black subjects to relate to 19th century impressionists by using her skills to depict a ephemeral mood.
Article body[edit]
Early Life and Career
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye was born in London, UK where she currently lives and works. Her parents worked as nurses for the National Health Service after emigrating from Ghana. Yiadom-Boakye attended Central St. Martins College of Art and Design; however, she did not enjoy her time there and so, moved to Falmouth College of Art where she eventually was awarded her undergraduate degree in 2000. She then completed an MA degree at the Royal Academy Schools in 2003.
In 2010 her work was recognized by Okwui Enwezor. With curator Naomi Beckwith, Okwui Enwezor catalogued her exhibition at Studio Museum in Harlem. She was among those nominated for the Turner prize in 2013. In addition to her artwork, Yiadom-Boakye has taught at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University where she is a visiting tutor for their Master in Fine Arts programme. Her influence as a painter was recognized in the 2019 Powerlist and she was subsequently listed among the "top 10" of the most influential people of African or African Caribbean heritage in the UK in 2020.
Work:
I left the artwork section out - bella
- Writing:
For an artist, Yiadom-Boakye is unusual in describing herself as a writer as much as a painter—her short stories and prosy poems frequently appear in her catalogues.
In talks about her work, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye notes that her writing is to her as her painting is, and explains that she "writes the things she doesn't paint and paints all the things she doesn't write". Her paintings are given poetic titles.
Art Market:
At a 2019 auction at Phillips in London, Yiadom-Boakye's Leave A Brick Under The Maple (2015), a life-size portrait of a standing man, sold for about $1 million.
Subject for work of others:
- addition: Poem After an Iteration of a Painting by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Destroyed by the Artist Herself by Ama Codje was published by the Massachusetts's Review on December 26th 2019[1]
Painted in 2017, Kehinde Wiley's Portrait of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Jacob Morland of Capplethwaite is displayed in the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, CT.
A portrait of Yiadom-Boakye by photographer Sal Idriss is held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
UK.
Awards:
Yiadom-Boakye has been widely hailed for her work, winning accolades including The Arts Foundation fellowship for painting (2006) and the Carnegie Prize (2018). She was also nominated for the Turner Prize (2013).
Our References[edit]
Not Scholarly:
Career highlights:
https://www.artsy.net/artist/lynette-yiadom-boakye/auction-results
Future generation art award:
https://www.rsa.ox.ac.uk/news/detail/lynette-yiadom-boakye-wins-the-future-generation-art-prize
Info on Carneige award:
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-lynette-yiadom-boakye-postcommodity-won-prizes-2018-carnegie-international
https://www.artnet.com/artists/lynette-yiadom-boakye/5 (Art pieces)
Flickr
Scholarly:
https://go-gale-com.libezp.lib.lsu.edu/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&u=lln_alsu&id=GALE|A619305453&v=2.1&it=r&sid=ebsco (Inspiration for at and what her pieces convey)
https://read-dukeupress-edu.libezp.lib.lsu.edu/nka/article/2021/49/254/294425/Lynette-Yiadom-BoakyeFly-in-League-with-the-Night (Trend in her art works)
https://muse-jhu-edu.libezp.lib.lsu.edu/article/557003 (Statement made by her based upon her works)
Exhibition info:
https://www.artnet.com/artists/lynette-yiadom-boakye/biography
https://jackshainman.com/uploads/12600126/1668196506615/Yiadom-Boakye_Lynette_Bibliography.pdf
https://jackshainman.com/uploads/10700107/1625760948106/LYB_Press_compressed.pdf - press releases
- ^ Codjoe, A. (2019). Poem After an Iteration of a Painting by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Destroyed by the Artist Herself. The Massachusetts Review, 60(4), 718–719. https://doi-org.ezproxyprod.ucs.louisiana.edu/10.1353/mar.2019.0106
Murray, Yxta Maya. "Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: HUNTINGTON ART GALLERY." Artforum International, vol. 58, no. 8, Apr. 2020, pp. 179+. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A619305453/LitRC?u=lln_alsu&sid=ebsco&xid=c92bb16c. Accessed 11 Mar. 2023.