Gordon Skinner

Gordon Skinner is an artist based in the Greater New Haven area. He identifies his style of art as "Integrity Art" defined simply as "Art that is real and honest and that promotes creative consistency". His work explores the ideas of identity, individuality and giving a voice to the voiceless and often forgotten, or as he called it: Art for the people. Skinner's work has been exhibited throughout galleries in Connecticut and NYC including the Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery in Stamford, Beechwood Arts in Westport, City Lights Gallery, the international Outsider Art Fair in NYC and solo exhibitions at the New Haven Public Library, Da Silva Gallery and Yale University's Afro-American Cultural Center Gallery. In addition to being the subject of a short documentary on his art titled Stolen I.D., Fragmented, Colonized and Lost, his paintings have been in a fashion photo shoot with celebrity fashion designers Coco and Breezy and one of his paintings will be published as the cover art for Fairfield University's nationally distributed poetry and literary publication Dogwood Journal.