Karen Yank and mentor Agnes Martin

Karen Yank has been commissioned to complete some of the largest public sculptural works in the Southwest, and her sculpture has been exhibited in museums and public collections including the New Mexico Museum of Art, Albuquerque Museum, NMSU Art Museum, New Mexico State Capital Art Collection, and the Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in NYC. Yank received her MFA degree from Rutgers University and her BFA from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Karen’s mentor was the great contemporary artist Agnes Martin, who is well known for her minimalist grid paintings and drawings composed of horizontal and vertical lines. Yank adopted the circle, a shape mimicking the curve where the earth meets the sky, as her more organic signature shape. Karen has completed over fifty large-scale public commissions to date. Yank is represented at the Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe and Atelier Newport on the east coast.