Top: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, A Conflagration, 2017. Oil on linen, 200 x 250 cm. Courtesy the artist; Corvi-Mora, London; and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Above: left – Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Brothers To A Garden, 2017. Oil on linen, 150 x 120 cm. Right – Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Of All The Seasons, 2017. Oil on linen, 110.5 x 60.5 cm
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, The Grains, 2017. Oil on linen, 75.5 x 90.5 cm. Courtesy the artist; Corvi-Mora, London; and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Left: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Repose III, 2017. Oil on linen, 200 x 120 cm. Courtesy the artist; Corvi-Mora, London; and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Right: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, A Cage For The Love, 2017. Oil on linen, 200 x 120 cm
Left: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, In Lieu Of Keen Virtue, 2017. Oil on linen, 200 x 130 cm. Courtesy the artist; Corvi-Mora, London; and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Right: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Light Of The Lit Wick, 2017. Oil on linen, 201 x 130.5 cm
Left: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, The Matters, 2016. Oil on linen, 200 x 130 cm. Courtesy the artist; Corvi-Mora, London; and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Right: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Ropes For A Clairvoyant, 2017. Oil on linen, 200.5 x 130 cm
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, 8am Cadiz, 2017. Oil on linen, 78 3/4 x 98 3/8 in (200 x 250 cm). Courtesy the artist; Corvi-Mora, London; and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
In her lush oil paintings, British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye conjures elegant figures that appear both quotidian and otherworldly. For her solo exhibition at the New Museum, Yiadom-Boakye has created seventeen new works and conceived a painted environment specific to the Fourth Floor Gallery. Her paintings embrace many of the conventions of historical European portraiture but expands on that tradition by featuring purely fictional subjects.
until 3 September 2017
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Under-Song For A Cipher
curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell
New Museum
235 Bowery, New York