The sea by Jürgen Wolf  (translated from German by Marlen Tischer) She absolutely wants to read a story written by me about the sea. I asked her, she said she wants to read a story about the sea or heard her saying, maybe she hears while reading. Anyways I know she wants a story about […]

As an inspirational starting point, I have been thinking about the works of 19th Century landscape painters like Albert Bierstadt (see below) or Frederic Edwin Church, which depict the U.S. landscape as grand, transcendent, and even sublime. Painted from and for a European-American point of view, however, those works reflect and project a colonial gaze—one […]

The Space Between, an exhibition of new work by the artist, will be on view at ClampArt from April 3 through May 17, 2014. Yankus’ fourth solo show at the gallery, the exhibition of more than 20 works explores the fine line between urban reality and architectural fiction though surreal portraits of buildings. Living in a mutable, […]

I grew up in a creative environment.  I have been influenced by sculpture and architecture, I am drawn to dimensionality, shapes, structures and hard light from my early years. Sculptors like Giacometti, Brancusi and Alexander McQueen whose sculptural but romantic works are truly inspirational. In terms of great photographers I love the work and method […]

In this piece, Andrew Wyeth’s model Christina Olson—who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder in real life—sits, inactively staring out onto the soft landscape, finding solace on the boundary between the internal and the external.  Because of Olson’s dormancy and comfort in the serenity of this moment, technology serves little purpose. The robot is given […]

“I suppose that my subjects are, for me, idealized versions of themselves, just as toile de Jouy fabric represented a romanticized interpretation of pastoral ‘reality’ in late-18th century France.” – Tim Hailand   In my work, I allow the material to lead me — it lets me know what it wants (or does not want) […]