Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Unveils 46 New Works in First Major New York Show Since 2019
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Updated · The New York Times · May 23
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Unveils 46 New Works in First Major New York Show Since 2019
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 23
Forty-six new works anchor Yiadom-Boakye’s “Many A Moonlit Caveat” at Jack Shainman Gallery’s two Chelsea locations, marking her first major New York exhibition since 2019.
The show expands beyond the British-Ghanaian artist’s signature paintings to include an unusually large group of charcoal and sanguine drawings.
Invented figures drive the exhibition: Yiadom-Boakye builds subjects from family and found photographs, her own snapshots, postcards of famous paintings and magazine clippings rather than live sitters.
The New York return follows solo museum exhibitions at Tate Britain in 2021-22 and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 2023, extending her recent international run.
Why is a renowned painter now turning to charcoal and sanguine drawings?
Her Black figures are imagined, not real. What truth does this fiction reveal?