Eric Yahnker - USA
Eric Yahnker is a contemporary artist born in 1976 in Torrance, California.
His humorous, meticulously rendered graphite and colored pencil drawings and elaborate process pieces examine pop culture and politics.
His work is represented by Ambach & Rice in Los Angeles, where he was included in an exhibition with Erwin Wurm and Raymond Pettibon in 2010.
He studied journalism at the University of Southern California before earning his BFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 2000.
During his second year at CalArts he worked on the storyboard for South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.
After he graduated he drew and directed Seinimation, a series of short animated bonus features on DVDs of Seinfeld’s last four seasons.