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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly In League With The Night
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About Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly In League With The Night
Product Description Dramatically reinventing the lineage of Goya, Sargent and Manet, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye imbues the Black subjects in her paintings with atmospheric grace and elegance Taking inspiration from the techniques of historic European portraiture, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s oil paintings could almost be from a much older era if it were not for the contemporary details of the Black subjects that populate her work. Though her subjects are people conjured in her imagination, Yiadom-Boakye imbues her portraits with a near-tangible spirit through her deliberate brush strokes and rich dark tones.The result is paintings that seem to exist outside of time while still remaining grounded in reality. This lavishly illustrated volume of nearly 80 paintings and drawings―some of which have never been exhibited before―accompanies the first major survey of Yiadom-Boakye’s work, shown at Tate Britain. In addition to new fiction writing by the artist, this publication includes in-depth thematic essays on Yiadom-Boakye’s artistic development, reflecting the dual aspects of the artist’s career as both a painter and a writer and offering an intimate insight into her creative process.Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) is a British artist and writer acclaimed for her atmospheric oil paintings that depict imagined sitters in dark color palettes, executed with a contemporary sensibility while still rooted in an art historical practice. She attended Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, Falmouth College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. In 2018, she was awarded the prestigious Carnegie Prize. Review Taking inspiration from the techniques of historic European portraiture, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye reinvents the lineage of Goya, Sargent, and Manet, imbuing the Black subjects in her paintings with atmospheric grace and elegance. This volume of nearly 80 paintings, drawings, and prints accompanies the first major survey of her work at the Tate Britain. In addition to the artist’s own writing and poetry, the book includes thematic essays on her development as well as a critical examination of the larger history of portraiture, focusing particularly on the depiction of Black subjects. -- Liz Hartman ― Publishers Weekly British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye conjures dark, mesmerising oil paintings of imagined Black subjects. The portraits, which are pulled entirely from her mind, are both contemporary and classical: fusing older European aesthetics with modern, everyday embellishments. Fly In League With The Night is the first major survey of the artist’s work, and contains nearly 80 lavish paintings and drawings – some never seen before. -- Isabella Maidment ― AnOther British artist and writer Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s paintings might appear, at first glance, to be traditional portraits. However, these are not faithful representations of black people, but rather imaginary figures conjured up by the artist. Her fictitious subjects occupy timeless worlds: at ballet classes; drinking champagne or cups of tea. “There are ideas about how a black body should be, should move, what blackness means,” she says of the decision to paint from her imagination. “I can divorce the work from that expectation of reality and refer to a different reality.” In this new title [...]her rich, psychologically complex works are presented. -- Baya Simons ― Financial Times Known for her dreamy, instinctive paintings of Black fictitious characters, Yiadom-Boakye [...] takes inspiration from the historic conventions of European portraiture. [...] She is also a talented writer, and her new fiction features prominently in the book. As she once said: “I write about the things I can’t paint and paint the things I can’t write about.” -- Lucy Rees ― Galerie Yiadom-Boakye’s figurative paintings of Black people are often pared-back and seem to evade any concrete meaning. And the more you look at and study her work, “the more enigmatic it becomes.” -- Jose da Silva ― Art N
