'My Whole Body Is Moving With It': Artist Kennedy Yanko on the Performative Nature of Making Sculpture
Kennedy Yanko, 2021. Photograph by Mike Vitelli. Kennedy Yanko paints and sculpts to a kind of choreography. The Brooklyn-based rising star is known for her evocative and sensual sculptures made from paint skins (essentially, sheaths of latex paint) and manipulated pieces of scrap metal she has hunted down at junkyards across New York City. Performance is a key element of her work, and Yanko, it’s worth noting, spent three years at the Living Theatre, New York’s oldest experimental theater group, followed by time as a yoga instructor and a bodybuilder while she pursued her artistic pract...
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