Female Artist - Yiadom-Boakye

LYNETTE YIADOM-BOAKYE 

Any Number of Preoccupations, 2010, oil on canvas

Courtesy of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, and Corvi-Mora, London

Miss Yiadom-Boakye was born in London in 1977 but her heritage is that of Ghanian. Her art work creates an abstract impression, the figures appear to be in a different space and time, as though non- existent but yet so real at the same time. Yiadom-Boakye made her paintings with the thought of expressing black people as more that what is mentioned "black", she wanted them to be portrayed as normal even though the pigmentation in their skin categorized them as different. Her art work is composed of extractions from scrapbooks, drawings and best of all, her imagination. Yiadom- Boakye was privileged to receive a few different awards for her authentic art work, these include the 

Next Generation Prize, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York in 2013, the Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev in 2012 and the Arts Foundation Award for Painting deciBel Award for Visual Arts in 2006.

To Douse the Devil for a Ducat, 2015, oil on canvas

Courtesy of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, and Corvi-Mora, London