Yashua Klos - Finding Family - Breakout Artist Finds Father's Family at 42

Imagine knowing virtually nothing of a father who disappeared,
then getting a text at 42 from an unknown cousin saying, "We
might be related." Immediately, the generous warmth of a large,
loving family replaces the cold emptiness of a son abandoned. For
over a decade, visual artist Yashua Klos has employed a unique
process of paper construction and  woodblock printing to
engage ideas about blackness and maleness from his cultural 
perspective as a native Chicagoan. Now, his practice and life are
in fabulous flux, as he surrenders to a sea of love and
appreciation engulfing him and aims to mark the legacy of his
newly discovered family's migration from the South to working
class Detroit. Swan Dive's third guest in our Wide Awakes
activation, Yashua's award-winning work has been shown in museums
and  galleries across the globe, featured in the NYT, and
earned him a Joan Mitchell Fellowship and a NYFA grant. He's also
Stu's favorite artistic discovery of 2020. Klos is 
represented by Tilton Gallery in New York and Galerie Anne De
Villepoix in Paris. 







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