Eric Yahnker (1976) is a contemporary artist born in Torrance, California. His humorous, meticulously rendered graphite and colored pencil drawings and elaborate process pieces examine pop culture and politics.
He studied journalism at the University of Southern California before earning his BFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 2000. During his second year at CalArts, he worked on the storyboard for South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. After he graduated he drew and directed Seinimation, a series of short animated bonus features on DVDs of Seinfeld’s last four seasons.
Describing his work as “long-form, visual, comedic poetry” and “glorified political cartooning,” the artist continues to use his unique background to create heroically-scaled installations, most often anchored by wall-sized, photorealistic drawings utilizing charcoal, graphite, and colored pencils. Leaning heavily on pop-culture imagery combined with cinematic, political and historic references in order to magnify broader social truths, Yahnker was described by the New York Times’ Ken Johnson as “an exceptionally imaginative satirist [who] is also an ambitious, prolific and technically impressive draftsman.” Yahnker has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe.
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He studied journalism at the University of Southern California before earning his BFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 2000. During his second year at CalArts, he worked on the storyboard for South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. After he graduated he drew and directed Seinimation, a series of short animated bonus features on DVDs of Seinfeld’s last four seasons.
Describing his work as “long-form, visual, comedic poetry” and “glorified political cartooning,” the artist continues to use his unique background to create heroically-scaled installations, most often anchored by wall-sized, photorealistic drawings utilizing charcoal, graphite, and colored pencils. Leaning heavily on pop-culture imagery combined with cinematic, political and historic references in order to magnify broader social truths, Yahnker was described by the New York Times’ Ken Johnson as “an exceptionally imaginative satirist [who] is also an ambitious, prolific and technically impressive draftsman.” Yahnker has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe.
© 2020. All content on this blog is protected by international copyright laws All images are copyrighted © by Eric Yahnker. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only
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| Mr. Eric Yahnker |
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| His studio |
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| Christine of Arc 2018 |
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| No Spinoza Zone (Neinstein) 2011 |
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| Star of David Lee Roth 2012 |
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| Billrise 2013 |
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| Jugs of Steel (A Cold Day In Hell) 2013 |
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| Space Jam 2014 |
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| Abe Lincorn 2015 |
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| Exceptional Suicide 2015 |
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| iFire 2015 |
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| Kanye Stack 2015 |
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| Kurt and son 2015 |
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| Mission Accomplished 2015 |
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| Pierced Piety 2015 |
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| Precious Patriotism 2015 |
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| Purple Lives Matter 2015 |
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| Selfie Preservation 2015 |
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| Trillary Clinton 2015 |
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| AND1 (after Rubens) 2016 |
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| Crosshairs 2016 |
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| Hill Yeah! 2016 |
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| Hit It n’ Quit It #2 2016 |
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| Hot Heel 2016 |
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| King’s Court 2016 |
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| Picassocino 2016 |
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| Too Dumb for Suicide: Tim Heidecker's Trump Songs record album 2016 |
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| Give me your poor, your tired... 2017 |
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| Golden Asshat 2017 |
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| Jedi pour 2017 |
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| The Delivery of St. Teresa 2017 |
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| This Is Not a Cat Smoking a Pipe 2017 |
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| I’m Too Sad to Tell You (After Bas Jan Ader) 2017 |
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| Foreign Concepts 2018 |
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| From the Factory Reset Series 2018 |
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| Kompromat n'Chill 2018 |
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| M Le Magazine du Monde Cover, January 2018 |
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| Makaveli of Freedom 2018 |
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| Shut Up & Dribble You Must Not 2018 |
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| Study For A Future Study 2018 |
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| The lovers, COVID19 2020 |
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