Jesse Mockrin
JESSE MOCKRIN
The Descent, 2024
Oil on linen
90 x 310 in
228.6 x 787.4 cm
JCG17064
JESSE MOCKRIN
Fracture, 2024
Oil on linen
36 x 56 in
91.4 x 142.2 cm
JCG17065
JESSE MOCKRIN
Outcry, 2024
Oil on cotton
36 x 56 in
91.4 x 142.2 cm
JCG17066
JESSE MOCKRIN
Bitter Seeds, 2024
Oil on linen, twenty panels
11 1/8 x 10 x 1 1/4 in (framed)
28.3 x 25.4 x 3.2 cm
53 x 62 in (installed)
134.6 x 157.5 cm
JCG17068
KENNEDY YANKO
Bittersweet Vine, 2024
Paint skin, metal
19 x 16 x 17 in
48.3 x 40.6 x 43.2 cm
JCG18068
KENNEDY YANKO
Elegant brodiaea, 2024
Paint skin, metal
17 x 18 x 14 in
43.2 x 45.7 x 35.6 cm
JCG18069
KENNEDY YANKO
Hound's tongue, 2024
Paint skin, metal
17 x 22 x 14 in
43.2 x 55.9 x 35.6 cm
JCG18070
KENNEDY YANKO
Water hemlock, 2024
Paint skin, metal
22 x 20 x 15 in
55.9 x 50.8 x 38.1 cm
JCG18071
KENNEDY YANKO
Sowy Thistle, 2024
Paint skin, metal
23 x 20 x 22 in
58.4 x 50.8 x 55.9 cm
JCG18072
KENNEDY YANKO
Identifying a wildflower, 2024
Paint skin, metal
66 x 95 x 25 in
167.6 x 241.3 x 63.5 cm
JCG18073
Installation view, Frieze London: Jesse Mockrin and Kennedy Yanko, Regent's Park, London, United Kingdom. Courtesy of James Cohan, New York. Photo by Dan Bradica.
Installation view, Frieze London: Jesse Mockrin and Kennedy Yanko, Regent's Park, London, United Kingdom. Courtesy of James Cohan, New York. Photo by Dan Bradica.
Installation view, Frieze London: Jesse Mockrin and Kennedy Yanko, Regent's Park, London, United Kingdom. Courtesy of James Cohan, New York. Photo by Dan Bradica.
Installation view, Frieze London: Jesse Mockrin and Kennedy Yanko, Regent's Park, London, United Kingdom. Courtesy of James Cohan, New York. Photo by Dan Bradica.
Installation view, Frieze London: Jesse Mockrin and Kennedy Yanko, Regent's Park, London, United Kingdom. Courtesy of James Cohan, New York. Photo by Dan Bradica.
Installation view, Frieze London: Jesse Mockrin and Kennedy Yanko, Regent's Park, London, United Kingdom. Courtesy of James Cohan, New York. Photo by Dan Bradica.
For Frieze London 2024, James Cohan will present a selection of new work by Jesse Mockrin and Kennedy Yanko.
Jesse Mockrin’s presentation explores four classical or biblical narratives – the Abduction of the Sabine Women, the Judgement of Solomon, Susannah and the Elders, and varied representations of Mary Magdalene. Mockrin notes, “these age-old stories are united by an overarching theme: the exploitation of the vulnerabilities of women.” Mockrin’s paintings complicate and radically re-envision her source material. She employs strategies of fragmentation, enlargement, recombination, and concealment to imbue once-familiar compositions with new layers of subversive significance. Mockrin’s paintings “serve to expose these biases hidden within the canon – to make them visible, to upend them.”
Working with paint skins and found metal, Yanko constructs 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. For this presentation, the artist is reducing her scale, creating her own version of miniatures. These diminutive, freestanding sculptures force the viewer to perceive the work aerially, joining the perspective the artist takes while in the act of painting.
