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Art Directors Club—Valentine Show
There is nothing new about col-
lage, of course. But Yankus'
images are singularly pecu-
liar and powerful.Witches
and lizards cavort through
unlikely classic landscapes. Mythological
characters inhabit contemporary
settings. In his work, incongruity—of
subject and scale—is the name of the
game. Given his quirky visions and
fastidious skill,Yankus has managed
to turn his art form int() a surprising
commercial success. He has produced
illustrations for such publications as
Audio Magazine, Barron's, Harper's,
Ms.Magazine,The New York Times,
People, Saturday Review, Scholastic,
Soho Weekly News, ScienceDigest,
Travel and Leisure and The Village
Voice. He has also received commissions
from the Book-of-the-Month-
Club,Gips & Balkind and Associates,
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,Ogilvy
& Mather and Sudler & Hennessey
advertising agencies.
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ne may wonder how his quixotic
illustrative form adapts to
commercial use. Just give
him a subject and turn him
loose with his library of
engravings, his scissors and paste,and
he will invariably come up with an
assemblage that will arrest, confound,
delight, intrigue and amuse...and be
pertinent besides.
In his young career,besides his com-
mercial success.Yankus
has managed to win profes-
sional approval as well. His
work has been exhibited in
the 1979-80 student show at the Society
of Illustrators; at the Art Directors
Club Valentine Group Show,1982;
in Tiffany windows,1979,and at the
Key Gallery in New York City,1980,
'81 and '82. M.M.
THIS ARTICLE WAS SET IN ITC KORINNA'
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