On this week's episode of The Art Angle podcast: We catch up with Kennedy Yanko, who has welded her way to art stardom:
The artist's largest sculpture to date is on view now at Art Basel in Switzerland.Kennedy Yanko with her sculpture at Art Basel Unlimited, 2022. Photo: Xandra M. Linsin. Courtesy of the artist.
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Kennedy Yanko is not afraid to take up space. This week, the Brooklyn-based sculptor unveiled her largest work yet at Art Basel: a 20-foot-tall hanging sculpture titled. The title describes how Yanko often creates her work through exploration and a whole lot of intuition. The apricot, green, and gray work is a tornado of cascading metal forms. At first blush, it’s impossible to tell just how much it weighs since it’s suspended in the air. As it turns out, it weighs a lot. It’s created from a monumental shipping container that Yanko scrunched, reformed, and selectively covered in paint. The final sculpture looks so alive, it almost seems like it’s breathing.
Yanko’s star has been steadily rising over the past few years. Last year, she became the first sculptor to earn a
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