Artist Statement
Figurative monuments, effigies that are typically worn and mangled, possess vital awareness in my drawings and paintings, created plein-air or in the studio over the past decade.
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I have been consistently preoccupied with depicting them as they succumb to the relentless vagaries of time and ruin, languishing in forgotten corners of storefronts or museums, staring out of dusty shadows, befuddlingly aware of irrelevance whether imposed or by happenstance.
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The last half dozen years, many iconic effigies have been drenched in house paint, scrawled with graffiti revealing cries of despair from modern day Luthers, demolished with hammers, beheaded, wrapped in plastic and dangling from cranes before being carted away from sites of memory that they had likely occupied for decades. Occasionally they have been tossed into the flames.
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The scarred environs of erased memory that I have wandered in person and remotely yield extraordinary tableaus of effigies that despite being discarded, appear to lurk ominously ready to pounce.
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EXPERIENCE
St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights NY, 2001 - Principal Instructor in Studio Practice in addition to Art History Lecture [Certified Remote Instructor on Canvas]
Essex County College, Newark, NJ - 2001 - Senior Lecturer in Drawing and Painting
Bronx Community College, Bronx, NY, 2001-2012 - Adjunct Assistant Professor in Art Survey
EDUCATION
Queens College - CUNY, 1999-2001, MFA in Studio Arts, June 2001
State University of New York, College at Purchase, BFA with Honors, 1985 - Faculty Award in Painting and Drawing
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Spring/Summer 2022 (Exhibition and Interview] New Reader Magazine [https://www.newreadermagazine.com/download/convalescence, pg. 22-25] “Art about Art Being Destroyed” interview by Chino Castañares
March 2022 - ‘God Save the....’ The Holy Art, London’ [https://www.theholyart.com/
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
April 2022 ‘Who Writes History?’, ArtsWestchester. White Plains, NY [https://artswestchester.org/who-writes-history/ https://artsandculture.google.com/story/YAXhKzsfV4S2Aw]
March 2022 “Color Recall”, St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, NY [https://www.sjcny.edu/brooklyn/student-life/council-for-the-arts]
Jan. 2022, Holy Art, London ‘Clash’, 2nd prize winner, [https://www.theholyart.com/
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]
2021-23 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/
Oct. 2020 ‘Darkest Before Dawn: Art in the Age of Uncertainty’, Ethan Cohen Gallery. Beacon, NY
Oct. 2020 ‘Lockdown Show’, Williamsburg Art and Cultural Center, Brooklyn, NY
Sept. 2019 ‘Sedgwick ‘73” with Rich Garr for ‘Reclaiming the Hall’ at Bronx Community College
2019 ‘Political Discourse’ at Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA [March-April 2019]
2019 ‘!!!PUBLIC ART??? ’ at Ramapo College’s Berrie Performing and Visual Art Center [February-April 2019]
2018 ‘Memoriae Engendered’ at Ossam Gallery, Brooklyn
2017 ‘Bust of Webster’ at Picture Social Justice and Human Rights/Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, Brookline, Ma
2016 ‘Confederate and Union war memorials’ at Nationalism/Belonging not Belonging Group, exhibition at Holy Family University, Phil., Pa
PRESENTATIONS, AV, RESIDENCIES, PUBLICATIONS AND AWARDS
Summer 2023 - Kunstram residency Brooklyn
July 2023 “Monumental Follies” Soup Can Magazine Issue 10 [https://www.soupcanmagazine.com/]
May 2023 The Jugaad Projects special issue on Museums, Whitewash: Robert E. Lee and the New Iconoclasm [https://www.thejugaadproject.pub/home/whitewash]
Nov. 2022 Puffin Grant https://www.puffinfoundation.org/grantees
Oct. 2022, “Gratified Monuments”, SECAC 2022 in a panel on Reimagining Monuments chaired by Jason Brown
Fall 2022 Mango Rio Residency [https://linktr.ee/mangoresidencia]/December 2022 exhibition in Punta Del Este, Uruguay
Summer 2022 - Midway Journal ‘Graffitied/Splashed/Toppled/Removed/Shattered: Public monuments in this extraordinary moment, by Howard Skrill (a slide show)’, https://midwayjournal.com/6884-2/
Summer 2022 - Indianapolis Review ‘Featured Artist’ [https://theindianapolisreview.com/]
January 2022 - ‘Special Mention Award’ and Exhibition, Mozaik Philanthropy [https://mozaikphilanthropy.org/faa/]
Winter 2021 - December Magazine (Splashed/Toppled/Removed/Shattered) [https://decembermag.org/current-issue-32-2/]
November 2021 - Hole in the Wall Collective’s Microresidency [https://www.holesinthewallcollective.org/]
Fall 2021 Cover ‘Culture Issue’ of Autumn Issue of Moida Magazine [https://www.moida.co/magazine]
Summer 2021 Mango Rio III Residency [https://linktr.ee/mangoresidencia] with Autumn 2021 exhibition in France
Spring 2021 Lee Richmond Graffitied (Variant LIt) Cover and backplate ‘https://www.variantlit.com/journals
JEB Stuart Splashed Red’ as the Cover Art (and interior spread) of the Spring issue of the Breakwater Review [https://www.breakwaterreview.com/issue-30]
Tofu Ink Press ‘Summer 2021 Edition in Digital Book Form” [https://www.tofuink.com/]
Chestnut Review “Volume 2, Number 4 (Spring 2021)” [https://chestnutreview.com/cr_v2_n4/]
Winter 2021 “Lady Forward” as the Cover Art of the Carolina Quarterly https://thecarolinaquarterly.com/]
Winter/Spring 2021 “Lee Richmond Graffiti” in WordPeace https://wordpeace.co/current-issue-6-1-winter-spring-2021/art/howard-skrill/
Dec. 2020, “Industries of the British Empire”, SECAC 2020 in a panel on Problem Solving Art chaired by Tess Elliot
Oct. 2020, Dunne, Susan , Twelve Connecticut art exhibits take on sexism, racism and politics in 2020, Hartford Courant, 10/15/20
Hartford Courant https://news.yahoo.com/twelve-connecticut-art-exhibits-sexism-102400856.html
Panelist in Open VISIONS Forum: Espresso, Dr. Harriet Senie, Monumental Controversies: Mount Rushmore, Four Presidents, and the Quest for
National Identity [http://quickcenter.fairfield.edu/fall-2020-season-calendar/lectures/harriet-senie.html]
Sept. 2020, Valluzzo, Andrea, ‘Howard Skrill explores absence with absurdity in Fairfield University exhibit ‘Monumental Follies’’ [in Darien Times etc.]
https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/arts-leisure/article/Howard-Skrill-explores-absence-with-absurdity-in-15549817.php, 9/9/20
Summer 2020 Quick Sessions Live - Carey Weber Interviews Artist Howard Skrill 7/14 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XjgKqGuNVw]
LaSalle Academy Virtual Art Expo “Guest Speaker” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IPuAR4130A]
2020 “Death Wish’ in Slag Glass City, http://www.slagglasscity.org/dispatches/death-wish-2/
Spring 2020 Cover Art in Rathalla Review, “http://rathallareview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/RR_Spring2020-1.pdf”
Winter 2020 Portfolio in Backchannels Journal, https://www.backchannelsjournal.net/howard-skrill-art-4
Oct. 2019 ‘Whitewash: Robert E. Lee in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans’ at SECAC 2019
‘Panel on ‘Power to the People? Displaying Portraits of Public Political Figures’ chaired by Dr. Sarah Beetham, Penn. Acad., Fine Arts
Summer 2019 Cover of Issue Six and portfolio of Sewer Lid: A Magazine of Urban Art and Literature, https://sewerlid.com/index.php/archives/sl-06/
Spring 2019 ‘Portfolio from Howard Skrill’s Anna Pierrepont Series’ in Barzakh Review’s Spring 2019 issue hhttps://www.barzakh.net/
spring-19-art/2019/5/21/2xs77e32shjcvkg4nzgzpagmiyrfp92019
October 2018 Panelist at the Comics and Justice Conference at St. Francis College/Panel on Comics, Politics, Resistance and Censorship
[https://graphicjustice.wordpress.com/category/annual-conference]
May 2018 ‘Captain American on the Battlefields of Brooklyn’ in Freezeray [Issue #15] , [http://www.freezeraypoetry.com/]
April 2018 Washington Square Arch [cover art] for April issue of Five on Fifth [http://www.fiveonthefifth.com/vol-3-issue-6-cover-page/]
February 2018 Works from the Anna Pierrepont Series - Monument Removal in the City Key [https://citykey.wordpress.com/category/art/]
January 2018 Artis On No.5, Issue on Iconoclasm and Vandalism: Evicting Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson from the Hall of Fame for Great
Americans [http://artison.letras.ulisboa.pt/index.php/ao/article/view/141]
December 2017 Belle Ombre ‘s Howard Skrill’s Anna Pierrepont Series
Fall 2017 ‘HMS Jersey’ in War, Literature and the Arts, [http://wlajournal.com/wlaarchive/29/skrill.pdf]
August 2017 Teetering in Streetlight Blog [Charlottesville], [https://streetlightmag.com/2017/08/27/teetering-drawings-by-howard-skrill/]
June 2017: ‘Speaking through the City: The Evictions of the Triumph of Civic Virtue over Unrighteousness’Lecture at Brooklyn Boro Hall to the
Society of Old Brooklynites [https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6b5C3siPMtWWUNTQTFvZUp0VUk]
April 2016 Drawing of Snowdon published in Rao Reports, [Raoreports.com/home/Finding-Edward-Snowdon]
March 2017 Drawing of Edward Snowdon published in UK’s Average Art [hard copy]
Fall 2015 ‘Cover Art of the Fall 2015 Issue’ Red Savina Review, [http://www.redsavinareview.org/]
July 2015 ‘The Anna Pierrepont Series: Art of Howard Skrill’ in Columbia Journal , [http://columbiajournal.org/the-anna-pierrepont-series-by-howard-skrill/]
April 2015: ‘Civic Virtue’ in Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts and Letters of St. Francis College,
https://view.joomag.com/assisi-an-online-journal-of-arts-letters-volume-4-issues-1-2/0709878001439389963?page=25]
December 2014 ‘Erasure’ in Newfound: An Inquiry of Place, [https://newfound.org/?s=skrill]
Fall 2014 ‘Brooklyn Dirge’ in 3Elements Review, Issue 5, Fall 2014,’and Interviewed
[http://3elementsreview.com/journal-issues/3elements-review-fall-journal-issue-5-2014.pdf]
Fall 2014 ‘Return’ in Slag Magazine, Issue 2,
[http://issuu.com/jonhenry5/docs/slagmagissue2fina on pg. 11’]
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