Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Appreciation of the Inches, 2013

Artwork Info

Artwork title
Appreciation of the Inches
Artist name
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Date created
2013
Classification
painting
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
71 in. × 63 in. (180.34 cm × 160.02 cm)
Date acquired
2014
Credit
Collection SFMOMA
Purchase through a gift of Pamela Joyner and the Accessions Committee Fund
Copyright
© Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Permanent URL
https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2014.257
Artwork status
Not on view at this time.

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NARRATOR:

Artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

 

LYNETTE YIADOM-BOAKYE:

I always liked art. I always made things, but I also — it never crossed my mind to make a career out of it, to be honest. I don’t know what I had in mind for a career – I thought maybe I might become an optician. Or I might write books.

 

NARRATOR (over the top of the interview):

She actually does write. She’s an artist who works in both mediums – painting and fiction.

 

YIADOM-BOAKYE:

It all sort of feeds in in its own way. When I write, it’s normally something I can’t paint and I paint what I can’t write, so most of the paintings are sort of, the narrative isn’t that clear.

 

NARRATOR:

The man in this painting seems so real, but he’s an invention, just like a character in a book. All of the people in her works are like that. They’re entirely made up.

 

YIADOM-BOAKYE:

They don’t somehow make sense as portraits, for me its painting. I suppose it’s the difference between working from a person that you’re trying to capture than actually trying to invent one, trying to, you know, create one.

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