Lynette Yiadom-Boakye "Essays and Documents"
Jack Shainman Gallery
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Jack Shainman Gallery presents Essays and Documents, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s first solo exhibition at the gallery and in New York. The exhibition features a series of portraits. Her subjects, mostly black, are bold, often confronting the viewer with a direct gaze. The manner of her painting is expressionistic with strong brush strokes that, along with her dark palette, evoke a theatrical mood. Her direct, centralized compositions emphasize the inner world and narrative of her subjects, leaving the simplified background setting to the viewers imagination. Speaking of her subjects the artist says, “although they are not real I think of them as people known to me. They are imbued with a power of their own; they have a resonance – something emphatic and other-worldly. I admire them for the strength of their moral fiber. If they are pathetic, they don’t survive; if I feel sorry for someone, I get rid of them. I don’t like to paint victims.”
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Schedule
from April 23, 2010 to July 23, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-04-22 from 18:00 to 20:00