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Image of JESSE MOCKRIN's "The Descent," 2024

JESSE MOCKRIN

The Descent, 2024

Oil on linen

90 x 310 in
228.6 x 787.4 cm

 

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Image of JESSE MOCKRIN's "Fracture," 2024

JESSE MOCKRIN

Fracture, 2024

Oil on linen

36 x 56 in
91.4 x 142.2 cm

 

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Image of JESSE MOCKRIN's "Outcry," 2024

JESSE MOCKRIN

Outcry, 2024

Oil on cotton

36 x 56 in
91.4 x 142.2 cm

 

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Image of JESSE MOCKRIN's "Bitter Seeds," 2024

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

 

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Image of KENNEDY YANKO's "Bittersweet Vine," 2024

KENNEDY YANKO

Bittersweet Vine, 2024

Paint skin, metal

19 x 16 x 17 in
48.3 x 40.6 x 43.2 cm

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Image of KENNEDY YANKO's "Elegant brodiaea," 2024

KENNEDY YANKO

Elegant brodiaea, 2024

Paint skin, metal

17 x 18 x 14 in
43.2 x 45.7 x 35.6 cm

 

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Image of KENNEDY YANKO's "Hound's tongue," 2024

KENNEDY YANKO

Hound's tongue, 2024

Paint skin, metal

17 x 22 x 14 in
43.2 x 55.9 x 35.6 cm

 

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Image of KENNEDY YANKO's "Water hemlock," 2024

KENNEDY YANKO

Water hemlock, 2024

Paint skin, metal

22 x 20 x 15 in
55.9 x 50.8 x 38.1 cm

 

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Image of KENNEDY YANKO's "Sowy Thistle," 2024

KENNEDY YANKO

Sowy Thistle, 2024

Paint skin, metal

23 x 20 x 22 in
58.4 x 50.8 x 55.9 cm

 

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Image of KENNEDY YANKO's "Identifying a wildflower," 2024

KENNEDY YANKO

Identifying a wildflower, 2024

Paint skin, metal

66 x 95 x 25 in
167.6 x 241.3 x 63.5 cm

 

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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.

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.

Press Release

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.

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