Jennifer Yorke
Last Dance (Octopussy), 2014
Collage, Acrylic & Silkscreen on Paper
13 x 19 inches, Framed: 21.125 x 26.125 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Aron Packer Projects.

Jennifer Yorke examines the uneasy relationship between consumption, identity, the physical body and the natural world through installations, collages, drawings, prints, photographs and books. Yorke's work is held in over a dozen public collections, including those of the Auckland Gallery of Art, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the University Art Museum at California State University at Long Beach and other institutions. Jennifer has been a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, and an artist-in-residence at Anchor Graphics; the Brush Creek Foundation; the Hambidge Center; the Jentel Artists Residency; Madro-o Ranch; the Millay Colony; La Porte Peinte Centre pour les Arts, Noyers France; the Ragdale Foundation; the Ucross Foundation; the University of the West of England Centre for Fine Print Research; and the Vermont Studio Center. To date, Jennifer Yorke's work has been the subject of nine solo exhibitions, and included in nearly 100 group exhibitions. Jennifer graduated from Carleton College cum laude and with Distinction (honors), and holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which she attended through a Graduate Trustee Fellowship. She lives with her husband Rob and dog Phoebe in Chicago, where her work is represented by Aron Packer Projects.

www.jenniferyorkeartist.com
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