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Mountain Views-News Saturday, December 7, 2019
THANKS CHRISTINE
FOR YOUR 31 YEARS
OF SERVICE WITH THE
ARCADIA POLICE
DEPARTMENT
CITY OF MONROVIA ANNOUNCES 2019 HOLIDAY
HOME DECORATING CONTEST WINNERS
The City of Monrovia is excited to announce the 2019
Holi-day Home Decorating Contest winners! This year, the
contest judges viewed over 20 fully decked out homes and
businesses filled with candy cane lined pathways and whimsical
holiday spirit.
2019 Holiday Home Decorating Contest Winners
• Best Still Display Award - 214 South Alta Vista
• Best Outdoor Display - 333 Norumbega Drive
• Most Effective Use of Lighting Award - 380 Norumbega
Drive
• Best Neighborhood Effort Award - Valmont Drive and
Valmont Place
• Santa’s Workshop Award - 436 North Primrose
Avenue
• Holiday Spirit Award - 2400 & 2500 Block of Rochelle
Avenue
• Children’s Choice Award - 309 North Madison Avenue
(Pictured Above)
• Judges Award - 300 Block of North Alta Vista Avenue
2019 Old Town Merchant Window Decorating Contest
Winners
• Best Holiday Display – Paint N Play
• Most Spectacular – Monrovia Floral
• Judge’s Award – Monrovia Chamber of Commerce
• Honorable Mention - St. Clair Bridal
• Honorable Mention – Sugarland
Congratulations to all the 2019 Home Decorating Contest
winners! All are encour-aged to take a tour of the homes
by viewing the map of the 2019 Winning Entries and
Participants.
To stay up to date on holiday happenings, visit www.cityofmonrovia.
org, “Like” City of Monrovia and Old Town Monrovia
on Facebook and follow the City and Old Town Monrovia
on Instagram @cityofmonrovia and @oldtownmonrovia.
Photo credit: City of Monrovia
Dispatch Supervisor Christine Campbell Retiring After 31
Years of Service. Chris, YOU are going to be missed!
HUNTINGTON TO PRESENT “THE HILTON ALS
SERIES: LYNETTE YIADOM-BOAKYE”
Recent paintings by contemporary British artist Lynette
Yiadom-Boakye will be on view Jan. 25–May 11, 2020, at
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical
Gardens. “The Hilton Als Series: Lynette Yiadom-
Boakye,” is curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Hilton Als, staff writer and theater critic for The New
Yorker magazine, and associate professor of writing at
Columbia University. This presentation is the second in
a trilogy of exhibitions at The Huntington that originated
at the Yale Center for British Art. The first exhibition,
on view at The Huntington in early 2019, focused on the
work of Celia Paul, and the final installment in 2021 will
highlight the work of Los Angeles-based artist Njideka
Akunyili Crosby.
“The uncanny mix of informality and mystery in Lynette
Yiadom-Boakye’s ‘non-portrait’ figural paintings creates
a fascinating dialogue with The Huntington’s collection
of highly formal, 18th-century British portraits of white,
upper-class figures,” said Catherine Hess, chief curator of
European art at The Huntington. “The juxtaposition of
her work will help expand the story that we tell around
British art and the traditions of figural representation
across centuries.”
The installation at The Huntington features five works
selected by Als in collaboration with the artist and
focuses on recent paintings that are portrait-like studies
of fictional characters. Drawn from the world of found
images and imagination, Yiadom-Boakye’s figures seem
familiar but also mysterious. She typically finishes each
painting in a single day, infusing the works with freshness
and spontaneity, as if they were painted from life.
“Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is among the most important
artists working in Britain today,” said Matthew Hargraves,
chief curator of art collections at the Yale Center for
British Art. “The selection of these works, all on loan
from generous private collectors, offers an opportunity
to see her powerful representations of imaginary people
of color shown in action and contemplation.”
The paintings’ titles pull from the artist’s own poetry
and contribute to the sense that these scenes are, in the
end, unknowable. In both The Needs Beyond (2013) and
Greenhouse Fantasies (2014), men look directly and
enigmatically at the viewer. Viewers are left wondering
who exactly these individuals are and what their stories
may be.
Yiadom-Boakye was born in 1977 in London, where
she lives and works today. She attended Central Saint
Martins College of Art and Design, Falmouth College of
Arts, and the Royal Academy Schools. She has had several
solo museum shows, most recently at the New Museum
of Contemporary Art, New York (2017); the Kunsthalle
Basel, Switzerland (2016); the Haus der Kunst, Munich
(2015); and the Serpentine Gallery, London (2015). She
was included in the Göteborg International Biennial for
Contemporary Art (GIBCA): “A Story Within a Story,”
at the Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden (2015)
and the British Art Show 8, traveling to four venues
between 2015 and 2017.
Her work is included in many public collections
including the Tate Collection, London; the Victoria and
Albert Museum, London; the Miami Art Museum; the
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Arts Council
Collection, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago; the Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC; the
Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art; and the National Museum of
African Art, Washington D.C.
Yiadom-Boakye was the 2012 recipient of the Victor
Pinchuk Foundation Future Generation Art Prize, which
was accompanied by a solo exhibition of her work. She
was short-listed for the 2013 Turner Prize, and Prestel
has published a monograph of her work. She has been
represented by Jack Shainman Gallery since 2010.
“The Hilton Als Series: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye” is
organized by the Yale Center for British Art where it will
be on view from Sept. 12 through Dec. 15, 2019. It will
be on view at The Huntington Library, Art Collections,
and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, CA, from Jan.
25 through May 11, 2020. The exhibition’s presentation
at The Huntington is made possible by generous
support from Laura and Carlton Seaver and the LLWW
Foundation.
Related Event
Hilton Als will present a lecture at The Huntington on
Yiadom-Boakye’s work in context of the exhibition on
March 17, 2020. Visit huntington.org for more details
closer to the event.
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