Kennedy Yanko: 2021 Artist in Residence

November 29, 2021 – Ongoing

Kennedy Yanko is a painter-sculptor and the Rubell Museum’s 2021 Artist-in-Residence. During her residency, Yanko scoured scrapyards in south Florida in search of readymade forms ripe for intervention. Her practice is often a mediation on material, which may be bent, poured, cut, welded or softened. Yanko creates thick velvety skins of paint, which she weaves through looming heaps of metal. The four abstract sculptures created during the residency – I am flower, I am water, and I am that –express elements of her lived experiences. 

I am flower, 2021
paint skin and corten steel
115 x 86 x 90 in. (292.1 x 86 x 228.6 cm)
acquired in 2021

I am that, 2021
paint skin and corten steel
204 x 114 x 114 in. (518.2 x 289.6 x 289.6 cm)
acquired in 2021

I am water, 2021
paint skin and corten steel
110 x 64 x 50 in. (279.4 x 162.6 x 127 cm)
acquired in 2021