Originally trained as a painter, and then working as a collage artist, Marc Yankus began incorporating his own photographs into his artwork around 1999. However, when he did so, it marked a turning point in his career. In many of Yankus’ photographs, textures scanned from old tintypes, books, and other objects are digitally layered on top of the artist’s original images. The superimposition of the old and the new serves as an apt metaphor of Yankus’ wider conceptual interests. Throughout his work, the artist oscillates not only between the old and the new, the past and the present, but also between figuration and landscape. Establishing a rhythm and play between timeless portraits and beautifully still and quiet landscapes and cityscapes, Yankus’ achievement is a wonderful consistency of mood. Hushed, introspective, and at turns even melancholic, this body of work is ultimately a reflection of the artist’s personal past and his passage into the present time.
Marc Yankus | Landscapes/Cityscapes
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Charles Street
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Tower
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Sea of Water Towers
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Moon in the Clouds
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San Remo
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The Library’s Garden
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Urn and Smoke
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Carmine
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Two Trees
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Near the Library
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You
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PK
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Park on Sixth
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Ocean Wave
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Eighth Avenue
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Light at University
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Riverside Path
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Sheridan Square from the Other Side
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Building Behind Bush
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Upper Chelsea
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Ancient
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Coming to Town
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I Think
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City
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Clouds from my Father’s Roof
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Sheridan Square at Night
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Ocean
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Boston Downtown
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Fenway Park, Boston
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Two Towers, NYC
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Sheridan Square
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Boat in Water
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Midtown, NYC
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Cloud #10
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Up the Avenue
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Where Stella Lives
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Harlem
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Where Else?
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Branches
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Green Clearing
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Row of Trees
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Chelsea
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Blue Graffiti, Prague