(b. 1987, New York, NY)
Dysmorphic and uncanny, stitched in imitation leather or covered in liquid rubber, Isabel Yellin’s forms conjure a language from another time or place. Many of her works hang from the walls or stand independently, where they vacillate between the mutated and the vestigial, the xenolithic and the abject. Some works are adorned with slight gestural markings, seemingly superfluous, yet subtly grounding the forms in the artist’s own hand. Acting as surrogates for thought, each one a subconscious strain of emotion and fantasy, the works augur a new flesh. Staking out new representative territory for desire and the other, these perverse figures are present in their alterity.
Yellin received her M.A. in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London in 2014. Recent solo and group exhibitions of her work include All Hands on Deck (2018) at Ben Maltz Galleries at Otis College, It'll Come (2017) at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, and Tabula Rasa (2017) at Studiolo in Milan. Yellin's practice has been the focus of articles and reviews in The New Yorker, Artforum, and LA Weekly, among other print and online publications. Earlier this year, Yellin received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
Yellin lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
