Showing posts with label Lynette Yiadom Boakye. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lynette Yiadom Boakye. Show all posts

Friday, 12 November 2010

Art: Artist/filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu, artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and photographer Kwaku Alston are all showing at Studio Museum in Harlem –right now…

Diplomacy III, 2009 by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye


Artist and filmmaker: Akosua Adoma Owusu
Akosua Adoma Owusu’s work is currently showing at the Studio Museum in Harlem’s ‘Changing Same Show’ in their Video Studio and runs until the 13th March 2011).


Photography: Kwaku Alston
To be perfectly honest, I have no idea if uber photographer Kwaku Alston is Ghanaian/of Ghanaian origin or not -but I do know that he is talented and I hope to work with him -someday. I stumble across his work in the latest Issue of Marie-Claire magazine and was pretty impressed (plus my father’s called Kwaku –and they tend to be nice)…

Kwaku’s at the very top of his game and has photographed the likes of: Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Tiger Woods, -worked for hot publications like: The New York Times, Rolling Stone and Essence magazine–and advertising for: Coca Cola, Blackberry and Target, -and is presently showing at the Studio Museum of Harlem –as part of their Harlem Postcards - Fall/Winter 2010/11 show (showing until 13th March 2011).

**Ghana Rising favourite, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is also showing at the Studio Museum in Harlem -her very first solo museum exhibition entitled ‘Any Number of Preoccupations’, organized by Associate Curator Naomi Beckwith.

For more information visit: http://www.studiomuseum.org/
Studio Museum in Harlem
Address: 144 West 125th Street, New York, New York
Telephone: 212.864.4500
Opening Hours: Thursday 12:00 – 9:00PM; Friday 12:00 – 9:00PM; Saturday 10:00 – 6:00PM; Sunday 12:00 – 6:00PM

Saturday, 13 February 2010

Art: Lynette Yiadom Boakye


Diplomacy II [2009]

'The Magnifying Monkey's Glass' 2009

'I like the decadence of oil paint. I like decadence in general. I wanted to paint the person that soul singers have written love poetry for, or the type that missionaries would like to teach. In the end, the history and act of painting is what matters.' Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

It’s lovely when there’s a creative buzz about you –and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye has been causing artistic explosions since 2007. Ekow Eshun called her, ‘a rising star'; Charles Saatchi is 'sitting-up-and-taking-note'....and she continues to exhibit internationally -yep, Yiadom-Boakye is hot right now! You can catch her at the upcoming ‘The Armory Show 2010' in NYC this March. ...Contact Details:
Date: March 4th -7th 2010
The Armory Show, Inc.
7 West 34th Street, Suite 1027
New York, NY 10001 USA
TELEPHONE -212.645.6440
www.thearmoryshow.com