This past week, we made it out to the opening of May 2011 cover artist, Eric Yahnker's new solo show, Virgin Birth N' Turf, at the Hole in NYC. The exhibition featured meticulous, two-foot colored pencil and graphite drawings to towering ten-foot works on paper; from tiny sculptural interventions to massive three dimensional arrangements.

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 Seattle, where he was included in an exhibition with  Erwin Wurm and Raymond Pettibon in 2010. Since then Ambach & Rice has moved to Los Angeles, where he continues to exhibit.

May 2011 cover artist and Los Angeles based fine artist, Eric Yahnker is set to open his first NYC solo show, Virgin Birth 'N' Turf, at The Hole tonight, September 4. One of the most talented drawers we can think of, with meticulous details of some of the most innane pop-culture topics, Yahnker's notes his new works "provides a mad lab where I get to swab the inner-cheek and place under a microscope a petri dish of the contemporary American experience in the shadow of another blisteringly contentious Presidential election..."

This Friday evening, July 27, Double Break in San Diego will be opening its new group show curated by Ryan Travis Christian. The show, titled Where My Cones At?, is definitely worth a visit, featuring Juxtapoz's cover artists Eric Yahnker and Andrew Schoultz, as well as other artists featured in the magazine like Jason Jagel. Double Break's walls will be jam-packed with artwork from many esteemed artists whose work will also be available in Double Break's online store.

Last weekend, one of the best booths in all of The Armory Show was Ambach & Rice's show with Eric Yahnker, titled, brilliantly, Party Sub/Sub Party. Yahnker, our May 2011 cover artist, filled the booth with his incredibly rendered pop-culture commentary, and also was able to obtain signed baseballs from Jesus, Abraham Lincoln, and Justin Bieber.

Our May 2011 cover artist, Los Angeles-based Eric Yahnker, has been having quite a few great years now, and whenever he is about to showcase new works of parody and incredibly detailed skill, we take notice. Yahnker is set to open Party Sub/Sub Party from March 8-11, 2012 with Ambach & Rice at the Armory Show.

Every few days someone will tell us how much they loved our interview and May 2011 cover story with Los Angeles-based Eric Yahnker. We just saw this great studio visit posted on Beautiful/Decay Magazine, featuring some great comments about his love for Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, and Rodney Dangerfield.

Seattle's Ambach & Rice Gallery, who show our May 2011 cover artist, Eric Yahnker, are moving to Los Angeles and opening the space with an inaugural group exhibition, ...will be home. The show features work from Yahnker, Grant Barnhart, Ron van der Ende, Abigail Reynolds, and others.

We look back on our May 2011 cover story with Los Angeles-based artist, Eric Yahnker. To us, as we have just completed the first half of 2011, this has remained one of our favorite features of the year. Read about Mel Brooks, pizza on garland, and the deep end of the shallow end. That makes sense.

If we could have told you last month when we announced Facemaker that Eric Yanhker was our May cover artist, it might have been more exciting. But tonight at Royal/T in Culver City, Ben Jones, Shepard Fairey, Takashi Murakami, Barry McGee, Kenny Scharf, Eric Yahnker, Jane Moseley, Olaf Breuning, and others will explore interpretations of the most universal element of human perception: the face. More after the jump . . .