Kennedy Yanko has proven her ability to forge salvaged metal sculptures that challenge our perceptions through sensation and contrast, landing in such major institutions as the Brooklyn Museum and Rubell Family Collection in Miami. Here she manipulates paint skin and metal to demonstrate her prowess as a painter. Through a labor-intensive process of painting metal, underpainting, fire-cutting, and crushing, she erases the binary between life and matter, revealing the abstract power of materiality and its potential for vitality.