Yashua Klos received a BFA at Northern Illinois University. Directly after graduating, he studied abroad for a year in Monflanquin France learning the techniques of Italian Renaissance oil painting at L’Atelier Neo Medici. In 2005 Klos was awarded a residency at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and is currently an MFA student at Hunter College in New York.
“My large-scale prints employ the graphic poignancy and political history of woodcuts to present portraits of contemporary black men. The subject embodies the unknown principle towards which the figures are posed in salute. While this iconography, by virtue of scale and subject, acts as a referent for a publicly broadcast image of black maleness, they also counter the idea of stereotype by each being specific and unique portraits…”
Klos has shown his work in galleries and non-traditional spaces at home and abroad including The 05 Deitch Art Parade (New York), The Shine Jewelry Outpost (Chicago), and Le Salon De’ville (Monflanquin, France). Klos’ works are in private collections in New York, Chicago, and in the collection of The Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation in Atlanta. His works have been published in Daniel Parker’s African Art: The Diaspora and Beyond.
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