David Skillicorn

Skillicorn, based in New York and Massachusetts, has been creating luminous abstract paintings for over twenty years. He explores complex spatial and color relationships through the use of texture, organic line, and sensuous fields of color. Often mixing in elements of the physical landscape directly into the paint -- sand, field grasses, bits of flora -- he infuses the work with the presence of the natural world. In mixed media works on canvas, Skillicorn creates sophisticated, intuitive paintings alive with surface texture, lush paint of vibrant colors in bold strokes over atmospheric passages.

David Skillicorn's life as a visual artist began with extensive work with video in the late 1970's, leading to an earlier career as a multiple Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker. His visual vocabulary deepened through those years while filming more than a million images across a wide spectrum of cultures and landscapes in more than forty countries. His intensive experiences filming the textures of culture, color and landscape throughout the world have had a lasting impact on his visual sensibilities and inform the unique visual language he has brought to his work as an abstract painter for the past twenty years.

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Bachelor of Arts, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2023
- Chase Young Gallery, Boston MA
- Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport CT
- Merritt Gallery, Chevy Chase MD
- Renaissance Fine Art, Haverford PA
​- Paul Mahder Gallery, Healdsburg CA
- Merritt Gallery, Baltimore, MC
​- Jules Place, Boston MA
- Dean Day Gallery, Houston TX
- Judy Ferrara Gallery, Chicago
- Trove Gallery, Park City UT
- Michael Murphy Gallery, Tampa FL
- Studio E Gallery, West Palm Beach FL
- Whitney Modern, Los Gatos, CA
- White Room Gallery, Bridgehampton NY
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2022
- Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA
- Chase Young Gallery, Boston MA
- Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport CT
- Merritt Gallery, Chevy Chase MD
- Renaissance Fine Art, Haverford PA
​- Paul Mahder Gallery, Healdsburg CA
- Merritt Gallery, Baltimore, MC
​- Jules Place, Boston MA
- Dean Day Gallery, Houston TX
- Judy Ferrara Gallery, Chicago
- Trove Gallery, Park City UT
- Michael Murphy Gallery, Tampa FL
- Studio E Gallery, West Palm Beach FL
- Whitney Modern, Los Gatos, CA
- White Room Gallery, Bridgehampton NY

2020
Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport CT
Chase Young Gallery, Boston MA
White Room Gallery, The Hamptons, NY
Jack Meier Gallery, Houston TX
Trove Gallery, Park City UT
Paul Mahder Gallery, Healdsburg CA
Desta Gallery, San Anselmo CA
Coastal Contemporary Galle...