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salt 7: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

 

salt 7: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is the seventh installment in the Museum’s series of exhibitions featuring new and innovative art from around the world. For her first solo exhibition in the western United States, British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye will show never-before exhibited oil paintings. Employing a palette and brushwork not unlike that of traditional western portraiture, Yiadom-Boakye’s luscious, gestural paintings consider the role of the black figure, as both subject and author, in the art historical canon. Her ambiguous portraits, composed from various sources and imagination, are purposely void of social, economic, and spatial clues. However, her fictitious subjects often engage the viewer with a direct glance or a furtive grin, projecting agency and inviting viewer interpretation.

Sponsored by Nancy and Dave Gill with additional support from Noel Kirnon.

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Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Painting Utah’s Mount Olympus

July 8 through November 14, 2010 

David Meikle, Evening Light, 2003, oil on canvas, private collection. 

Mount Olympus is not the tallest mountain in the Wasatch Range but anyone who has seen this awesome natural wonder will agree with the early pioneers who bestowed it with the Greek name for ‘the home of the gods.’ Indeed, Mount Olympus stands today as an imposing, silent sentinel, a powerful symbol of nature’s transcendent beauty for the residents of the modern metropolis that has grown at its foot. For the past century and a half, some of Utah’s most talented artists [Lee Greene Richards, Gilbert Munger, Edwin Deaken, Anton Rasmussen, David Meikle and others] have attempted to do justice to Mount Olympus…not an easy task for mere mortals and yet through their work, the home of the gods is immortalized in Painting Utah’s Mount Olympus.