{"id":171,"date":"2015-03-25T14:05:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T18:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-beta\/?post_type=people&p=171"},"modified":"2023-10-09T09:23:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T13:23:16","slug":"karen-yasinsky","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/directory\/karen-yasinsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Yasinsky"},"featured_media":524,"template":"","role":[61],"filter":[],"class_list":["post-171","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","role-faculty"],"acf":[],"post_meta_fields":{"_edit_lock":["1696857654:433"],"_edit_last":["433"],"ecpt_people_alpha":["Yasinsky"],"ecpt_position":["Senior Lecturer"],"ecpt_expertise":["Visual arts; animation; experimental film; surrealism"],"ecpt_email":["kyasins1@jhu.edu"],"ecpt_website":["http:\/\/www.karenyasinsky.com"],"ecpt_bio":["

Karen Yasinsky is an artist and filmmaker working with experimental film, animation and drawing. She received a BA from Duke University in Mathematics and Art History and received her MFA from Yale University in Painting. Her courses at Hopkins address and question the aesthetics of film language, animation, surrealism and experimental media. She is a Guggenheim fellow, a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin and the American Academy in Rome. Grants and residencies include the Baker Award, Headlands Center for the Arts and the Ucross Foundation. Her work has been shown in many venues internationally including the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art, NY, UCLA Hammer Museum, LA, the Wexner Center, Columbus, Kunst Werke, Berlin, Museum Folkwang, Essen and Baltimore Museum of Art. Her films and videos have been screened worldwide at various venues and film festivals including Museum of Modern Art, NY, National Gallery of Art, DC, the New York Film Festivals Views from the Avant Garde, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Images Festival, San Francisco International, Crossroads, London International Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival and the Ann Arbor Film Festival (Best Sound 2013). Publications including her work include No. 1: First<\/em> works by 363 Artists<\/em>, The World is a Stage Stories Behind Pictures, Armpit of the Mole<\/em>, and >>fast forward Media Art Sammlung Goetz<\/em>.<\/p>"],"ecpt_teaching":["

Courses include: Intro to Visual Language; Surrealism and Film; various Animation courses; Experimental Video; Anxiety and Influence; and the film mentor for Sound and Film<\/p>"],"ecpt_extra_tab_title":["In the Media"],"ecpt_extra_tab":["

Maryland Morning Screen Test film series presents Karen Yasinsky<\/p>\r\n

Karen Yasinsky turned to filmmaking to surmount the limitations of painting, and the illustrated and stop-motion animations she\u2019s created over the last decade are transfixing. They\u2019re often set in nature, but they never feel quite\u00a0natural. They center on characters who can convey with just the slightest gesture how difficult it is to truly connect\u00a0with another person. \u201cWe are defined by our relationships,\u201d Yasinsky says, \u201cbut we\u2019re always alone.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Maryland Morning arts and culture ace Tom Hall talked with Karen Yasinsky about her work in front of a live\u00a0audience, and then screened a selection of clips from her films. Their conversation aired on Maryland Morning,\u00a0Friday, January 27, 2012<\/p>\r\n