On the occasion of Kennedy Yanko: Without Gravity, Pace Prints invites you to attend a conversation between artist Kennedy Yanko, Rachel Gladfelter, Director of Pace Paper, and Douglas Dreishpoon, Chief Curator Emeritus at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and Director of the Catalogue Raisonné Project at the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
The event will take place on Saturday, September 6 from 4-5pm in our gallery at 536 West 22nd Street.
The dialogue will focus on the innovative papermaking processes behind Yanko’s new body of work, as well as the artist’s inspirations and experiences working in the Pace Paper studio.
Tying in the artist’s curated selection of prints on view alongside the exhibition, the conversation will also engage the legacy and significance of abstraction.
Seating for this event is limited, and RSVPs will be required for all attendees.
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About Kennedy Yanko
Working with paint skins and found metal, Kennedy Yanko (b. 1988, St. Louis, MO) constructs sublime sculptures and architecturally scaled installations that defy the limits of their own materiality. Steeped in the visual language of Abstract Expressionism, Action, and Color Field Painting, Yanko’s works cast off the boundaries of their medium, occupying the generative spaces between painting and sculpture, abstraction and figuration, surreal and earthbound. Yanko has been included in significant exhibitions at the Albertina Modern (2024); Brooklyn Museum (2022; 2024); CFHill (2022); Parrish Art Museum (2022); Rubell Museum (2021), where she was the 2021-2022 Artist in Residence and first sculptor to hold the residency; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2019). Yanko’s work is held in major private and institutional collections such as Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL; Espacio Tacuari, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Firestorm Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Rubell Museum, Miami, FL; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC; Ståhl Collection, Norrköping, Sweden; and Stora Väsby Sculpture Park, Upplands Väsby, Sweden.
About Douglas Dreishpoon
Douglas Dreishpoon currently directs the Helen Frankenthaler catalogue raisonné project, in addition to being chief curator emeritus at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, consulting editor at the Brooklyn Rail, and a practicing jazz drummer and percussionist. His essays, interviews, and reviews have appeared in Art in America, Art Journal, Art News, Archives of American Art Journal, Sculpture, and The Brooklyn Rail. Recent exhibitions include Helen Frankenthaler: Painting Without Rules, Imperfections by Chance: Paul Feeley Retrospective, 1954-1966, and Nothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 1947–1962. Recent books include Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1988–2009 (Radius Books, 2022) and Modern Sculpture: Artists in Their Own Words, an anthology of sculptors’ writings for the Documents of Twentieth-Century Art series (University of California Press, 2022). Dreishpoon holds a PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
About Rachel Gladfelter
Rachel Gladfelter is the Director of Pace Paper located in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
(Left) Kennedy Yanko (Middle) Douglas Dreishpoon (Right) Rachel Gladfelter
