Kennedy Yanko: 2021 Artist in Residence

For her residency at the Rubell Museum, the painter-sculptor Kennedy Yanko  scoured metal scrapyards in South Florida in search of forms ripe for intervention.

Creating thick, velvety skins of paint woven through looming heaps of found metal, Yanko meditates on material, which may be bent, poured, cut, welded, or softened. The artworks she created during the residency –”I am flower, I am water, and I am that“–express elements of her lived experiences.