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Field 24” x 24” 2006 mixed media on panel

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Artist Biography:

Youngstown, Ohio, native Paul Yanko teaches at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, South Carolina. He received an M.F.A. in painting from Kent State University in 1995 and a B.F.A in illustration from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1991. While residing in Ohio, Yanko exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions at institutions including the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art and the McDonough Museum of Art.

In 2002 he was the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant. His work is included in private and public collectionsincluding the Cleveland Clinic.

Paul Yanko

Greenville

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About the Work:

“My work reflects a desire to reconcile formal painterly concerns with process-derived imagery. I remain equally influenced by emblems of Modernist geometric abstraction, such as the stripe and triangle, in addition to the characteristically intense, saturated hues found in commercial sign painting and toy construction sets. I develop my paintings systematically through an additive process of layering paint mixed with various mediums onto masked areas. The resulting imagery of my compositions evolves from a matrix of vertical, horizontal, and curvilinear bands. This matrix serves as a foundation from which I use to isolate a vocabulary of shapes. Using masking techniques, I apply paint in increasingly heavy films with a palette knife, gradually allowing tactile qualities to develop as I register progressively smaller shapes over larger forms.”