Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Vogue Magazine
Dodie Kazanjian profiles painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye whose exhibition Under-Song For A Cipher will be on view at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, from May 3 - September 3, 2017. Kazanjian writes: "Most [of Yiadom-Boakye's paintings] are large-scale, single-figure studies whose faces, set against loosely brushed dark backgrounds, look directly at the viewer.