Eric Yahnker has made name for himself with his provocative pastels and pencil drawings, presenting doleful snapshots of contemporary American life and celebrity. California-based Yahnker is now showing a series of works in a show titled Factory Reset at The Hole in New York. The title piece distils today’s technological preoccupations with the original art celebrity, Andy Warhol, offering up a searing critique of the “vanity and vacuousness” of the Factory and directly comparing it to today’s selfie-saturated culture. “Factory Reset is comprised of fifteen new pastel drawings and one large, room-filling sequential animation that all try to metaphorically encapsulate the state of our union; its hopes, fears, desires and mind-bending surreality come to life,” says Yahnker.
