Pour Yourself Out
2017
Yashua Klos
Brooklyn, New York
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Yashua Klos
Yashua Klos is a visual artist represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York and Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery in Luxembourg. Her practice employs a unique process of collaging her own textures printed on wood to address ideas about blackness as an adaptive material for survival strategies. Klos' work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States and abroad, including the Studio Museum in Harlem; What If The World Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa; Tilton Gallery in New York; and UTA Artist Space in Los Angeles. Klos' first solo museum exhibition, titled OUR LABOUR, debuts at the Wellin Museum of Art in Clinton, New York, in February 2022. Klos' work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, and she has been awarded artist residencies at Skowhegan, The Vermont Studio Center, and Bemis. He is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Fellowship and a NYFA Fellowship. Klos was born and raised on the South-Side of Chicago. He now works and resides in New York, with studios in Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Program Participation
Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2022
Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2014
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I see the black body in America as an ever-changing identity, one that must be both resisted and concealed. With this in mind, I find ways to represent Blackness both figuratively and abstractly. I am especially inspired by the resilient beauty of Black Americans, and I am provoked by the injustice suffered by Blacks living in the segregated urban landscape.”
