Mary Younkin

Mary Younkin’s paintings combine elements of still life, portraiture and design to create a feminine utopia from everyday objects. At the core of the work is an interest in leveraging color as a storytelling mechanism, employing a painterly pop-art approach and hyperreal palette.  

Younkin (b. 1982, California) lives and works in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn where she is a member of the Greenpoint Art Circle. She studied painting at California College of the Arts and received her MFA at Parsons The New School. Her work has been exhibited widely in the New York area, most recently at 440 Gallery and resides in the permanent collection of the Ramsey County Historical Society in Minnesota as part of their exhibit “Persistence: Continuing the Struggle for Suffrage and Equality: 1848-2020”. Her work was recently published in I Like Your Work’s 2023 Summer Exhibition Catalog “Esprit de l’escalier” curatored by Alicia Puig.