Karen Yasinsky

Karen Yasinsky is an artist and filmmaker working with experimental film, animation and drawing. She received a BA from Duke University in Mathematics and Art History and received her MFA from Yale University in Painting. Her courses at Hopkins address and question the aesthetics of film language, animation, surrealism and experimental media. She is a Guggenheim fellow, a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin and the American Academy in Rome. Her work has been shown in many venues internationally including the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art, NY, UCLA Hammer Museum, LA, the Wexner Center, Columbus, Kunst Werke, Berlin, Museum Folkwang, Essen and Baltimore Museum of Art.

Girl with a clenched fist, 1996

Mixed media on paper
36 x 57 cm