SLCene Suggests: salt 7: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at Utah Museum of Fine Arts

SALT 7: LYNETTE YIADOM-BOAKYE, UTAH MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Feb. 21-June 23

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts continues its winning salt series of new and innovative art exhibitions with a new show opening Thursday featuring the debut of British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s oil paintings. Yiadom-Boakye’s works focus on portraiture, most of the subjects being black–and fictional. Her works is purposefully devoid of clues to her characters’ social or economic status, leaving it to the viewer to fill in  a story based purely the subtle expressions that come through the artist’s brushwork. This is Yiadom-Boakye’s first solo exhibition in the western United States, and she’ll be on hand Thursday evening for an artist talk with UMFA curator of modern and contemporary art, Whitney Tassie. From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., the community is welcomed to check out salt 7 for free, and the artist talk will be in the museum’s auditorium at 7 p.m.

The artist’s Shoot the Desperate, Hug the Needy, from 2010.