A portraitist whose subjects are all in her head
The artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at Tate Modern in London, Oct. 30, 2020. A major new exhibition at Tate Britain in London puts the spotlight on Yiadom-Boakye, an artist who paints enigmatic Black characters of her own invention. Adama Jalloh/The New York Times.
by Siddhartha Mitter
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a committed painter of people. Every piece she shows is, on first impression, a portrait a careful study of one person, or, at most, a small group, with little to distract from their presence and force.
Yet whenever she starts work, in her East London studio, she is alone. Her subjects are not living individuals, but characters sprung from her mind.
The Beauty: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), which was longlisted for the National Book Award, and
Given Sugar, Given Salt (HarperCollins, 2001), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her ninth collection,
Ledger, is forthcoming from Knopf in March 2020. She has edited and cotranslated books with Mariko Aratani and Robert Bly. Hirshfield’s honors include the Poetry Center Book Award, the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Literature, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, Columbia University’s Translation Center Award, and the Commonwealth Club of California Poetry Medal, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Her work has been selected for seven editions of
Struggling Museums Are Increasingly Relying on the Generosity of Artists to Convince Private Donors to Bail Them Out
As donors take their foot off the gas of arts giving, artists have been called in to reenergize them. It s a lot of pressure.
December 14, 2020
Artist Rashid Johnson, a frequent donor to museum fundraisers, at his Brooklyn studio on June 18, 2019. (Photo by Chris Sorensen for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Museums rely on artists to create compelling exhibitions, public programming, and sometimes even promotional materials. But during this unprecedented year, they’ve been leaning on them more than ever for something else, too: fundraising.
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Massimo De Carlo presents a new painting series of faces by Rob Pruitt
Rob Pruitt: Masks. Massimo De Carlo, Milan/Belgioioso. From December 1, 2020 to January 22, 2021. Installation View: Roberto Marossi. Courtesy Massimo De Carlo, Milan/London/Hong Kong.
MILAN
.-Massimo De Carlo presents Masks, Rob Pruitts 9th exhibition with the gallery and first solo show at the Palazzo Belgioioso space in Milan. Pruitts exhibition centres on a new painting series of faces, initially conceived as props for a dance performance that never was. The body of work began with the smaller canvases which are scaled to the human face and were to be held by the dancers as masks. Reimagining a project that began a decade ago of quick gestures over gradient fields, Pruitt continues his pursuit of depicting the complexities of personality and emotion through these simple means. With these new paintings, the facial gestures are cut into the canvas with a razor - destructive and creative at the same time,