Howard Skrill

We are in the midst of a moment of epochal transformation that started before Charlottesville with the demand that the landscape of American memory, as embodied in figurative public monuments, be reassessed. This has resulted in the alteration of these monuments through additions and removals aiming to correct historical erasures that have resulted in systematic biases extending into the present.

My latest works on paper, made in my studio, are from what I call the Anna Pierrepont Series. They are perhaps an inevitable progression from the practice I launched in 2013, when I would carry around a folding chair and whatever materials I could fit in my paint-smeared backpack to make plein air drawings of statuary near my home in Brooklyn. I did not start this series with any specific intent; I was simply inspired by my intense love of the challenge of representation. The statues were selected in the time-honored academic tradition of drawing statuary, due to their static nature. (Ironically, given my project, Anna Pierrepont, a descendant of John Jay, the first chief justice of the U.S., does not have a statue dedicated in her name. She lies in a grand sarcophagus on a forlorn hill in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. I don’t know mu...

MFA Queens College, 2001
BFA SUNY Purchase 1985

November 2021 - Terrain.org’s Letter to America ‘The Changing Landscape of Public Memory’ [https://www.terrain.org/2021/arterrain/howard-skrill/ ]
2020 - “Monumental Follies”. Fairfield University Art Museum “https://www.fairfield.edu/museum/skrill/”
2015 - ‘HMS Jersey’ at the Callahan Center Gallery/St. Francis College and online [http://howardskrill.blogspot.com/www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TsThl0aC5I]
2011 - ‘Anna Pierrepont Series’ at the Callahan Center Gallery at St. Francis
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 [pending] ‘Who Writes History?’, ArtsWestchester. White Plains, NY
Nov. 2021 Mango (Rio III residency) Exhibition, Marnay Sur Seine, France [https://en.expressoir.fr/]
2021 Ivy League Gallery: notacatbutallama [https://www.ivyleaguegallery.com/notacatbutallama-20/notacatbutallama]
2021 LIC Artists (two exhibitions] https://www.licartists.org/drawing-show-2020 and https://www.licartists.org/mixed-mediadrawings
2021 Art Against Racism’s Visual Culture Gallery, https://artagainstracism.org/mmm-galleries/