Public effigies, typically figures modelled in the durable materials of stone and metal, enable the power dynamics and often bizarre worldviews of the past to collide with the present. For a decade and a half, Howard Skrill has endeavored, in plein-air drawings, studio works on paper, framed canvases, installations and pictorial essays utilizing his often-spectacular vignettes, to memorialize the points of impact unravelling our present and setting our future out of joint.