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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Parchment Flowers , 2017 Oil on linen, 55⅛ × 33½ in. Courtesy the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, and Corvi-Mora, London Holly and Albert Baril Collection
Each of Yiadom-Boakye’s enigmatic paintings share one fundamental characteristic: the figures they depict are fictitious constructions, rather than portraits of specific individuals. The figure here gazes out at the viewer from a dark and ambiguous background—painted rapidly, wet on wet—and is difficult to locate in a specific place or time, like a dream. “They don’t share our concerns or anxieties,” the artist has said. “They are somewhere else altogether.” —AC
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