Yank, Karen

“Karen Yank has established herself as one of the most collectible sculptors in the U.S.  She has been commissioned to complete some of the largest public sculptural works in the Southwest, and her sculpture has been exhibited in numerous museums. Yank received her MFA degree from Rutgers University and her BFA from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Karen’s mentor was the great contemporary artist Agnes Martin, who is well known for her minimalist grid paintings and drawings composed of horizontal and vertical lines.  Yank adopted the circle, a shape mimicking the curve where the earth meets the sky, as her more organic signature shape.  The circle is all-encompassing, eternal symbol of nature, and one Yank loves to juxtapose with her industrial metal materials.

Yank’s sculptures are included in numerous museum and public collections, including the New Mexico Museum of Art, Albuquerque Museum, NMSU Art Museum, New Mexico State Capital Art Collection, and the Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in NYC. Karen has completed over fifty large-scale public commission to date. Her public works can be seen all over New Mexico, along with numerous other city and state collections across the United State. Yank is represented at the Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe and Atelier Newport on the east coast.”

Episode: Abstractions in Nature, Karen Yank

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