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Upcoming Show - Amy Simon Fine Art

6/23/2020

 
Prepping for an upcoming show at Amy Simon Fine Art in Westport CT and will be taking many of these new paintings down this week. Details to follow.
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New Series - Abstract Portraits

5/15/2020

 
I'm embarking on a new series of paintings - a mixture of abstraction and figuration, looking to create something interesting and surreal.  Here is one of the first - Frida & Diego, 72" x 48", oil on canvas.
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Ronnie Landfield Studio Visit

12/25/2018

 
My great pleasure spending the afternoon with the great Ronnie Landfield at his studio in the Hudson Valley. His monumental canvases are really somethiing to behold, and match his monumental career. Ronnie's was in his first Whitney Biennial at age 20, and was in it again years later. His paintings are in the collections of all the major museums in America. Lots of fun talking shop.
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Interview in BostonVoyager Magazine

6/11/2018

 
Happy to have this really nice interview in the current issue of BostonVoyager magazine. Click link for article. Many nice pics of recent work at the bottom of the interview. 
http://bostonvoyager.com/interview/check-david-skillicorns-artwork/
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Interview in Artscope Magazine

12/1/2017

 
There is a really nice interview and review of my current work up at the Sprinkler Factory Gallery in the latest issue of Artscope Magazine: New England's Premier Culture Magazine. Thank you to editor Brian Goslow for such a great job. Here is a link to the article: Artscope Magazine
Below is a picture of me working away in the studio on a large canvas that they included in the article.
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New Series

10/20/2017

 
I'm developing a new series of paintings I'm calling Botanique. The paintings are inspired by the amazing and ever changing botanical world all around us. Abstract Impressionist in style, the paintings meld the form and vitality of Abstract Expressionism with the broken color brushwork of the Impressionists.
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I hope to convey some of the dazzling color, vibrancy and nuance found in the magical world of plants, flowers and trees. I've brightened the palette quite a bit in this series, and am letting the colors run free.
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All titles are randomly selected from botanical nomenclature.  Pictured here, Fasicle, 48" x 48" acrylic on canvas.
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Prepping for "WHITE" show at Diana Felber Gallery

8/7/2017

 
Working up the surface on several paintings I'll have in the show "WHITE" at Diana Felber Gallery in September.
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Journey with no End

6/17/2016

 
One of the things I like so much about painting is that it is a journey I can go on, but never arrive. The exploration is entirely what it is about for me. In a sense, the finished paintings are markers along the way. Each one describes a particular moment in time, a record of an idea, or technique or challenge I was investigating at that point in the journey. Taken as a whole in retrospect, the paintings are a road map of where I've been.

Lately I've been searching for ways to get further "into" the paintings, beyond the surface markings and dynamics. Not that I am looking to portray a literal space, but rather a sense of volume and light to move around in. Berceuse, 24" x 30", is an example of this idea, the current moment in the ongoing journey.
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The Paint is the Thing

5/29/2016

 
I've come to believe that literally the paint itself is of central importance in my work. I've been experimenting  for years with different viscosities, textures, sheen, and overall look of the paint, both oils and acrylics, to come up with a quality which resonates the kind of feeling I hope to achieve in the finished work. In the end, nothing communicates like the quality and characteristic of the paint itself.

In my latest work I've been mixing  a variety of paints, and applying with a number of different tools and techniques to achieve the look I'm after. These new paintings are built up over many layers, often beginning with charcoal and graphite, then washes of thin transparent paint, additional layers of archival mediums mixed with dry pigments, and finally thick impasto applications of pure color. I'm liking the results very much. The contrast of the materials and techniques built up through the layers brings a level of excitement and liveliness to the work. I very much look forward to continuing the exploration. 

Tanto, 48" x 48", mixed media on canvas
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New Series - Sensorium

5/7/2016

 
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This painting, (Senza, 30" x 40"), is the first in a new series I'm creating called Sensorium. Broadly defined, Sensorium is the totality of those parts of the brain that receive, process and interpret sensory stimuli. The sensorium is the supposed seat of sensation, the place to which impressions from the external world are conveyed and perceived.

With this new series, I'm interested in exploring how we perceive and sense experience. Is it possible that aspects of a painting might stimulate more of our senses than  just the visual one? It is common and easy for us to visualize soaring images in our mind's eye when listening to a moving symphony for instance. Is it also possible we might be able to develop our sensitivities in ways that make it just as easy for us to hear music in our mind's ear when "looking" at a work of art?

In all my paintings I reach for an elusive quality which transcends a work’s physical properties and can only be perceived intuitively. It's that unseen intangible essence which gives a painting "presence", making it something more than decoration or craft. It's the mysterious act of perceiving a work of art with the "sixth sense" if you will.


While this will continue to be a central focus in my work, in this series I will be exploring a more literal engagement with the senses to see if something might be created which holds out the possibility of resonating beyond the visual....    to the sensorium.
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