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RECENT SOLO SHOW: The Art Show, solo exhibition at June Kelly Gallery’s booth. Park Avenue Armory, East 67th Street and Park Avenue, New York, NY. Organized by the Art Dealers Association of America. October 30th to November 2nd, 2024.
The Art Show Committee, composed of ADAA members, selected “Best in Show” designees to “recognize those members whose presentations epitomized the connoisseurship and industry leadership of the ADAA membership.” Sky Pape’s piece Drift, from the artist’s series Inklings was selected as “Best in Show Object.”
2024 ARTISTS’ RESIDENCY:
Artists’ Residency at The Swimming Hole Foundation, Bearsville, NY
A “collaboratory” residency that grew from the intersection of drawing and ceramics, with artists (L to R) Caryn Kreitzer, Lisa Mackie, Sky Pape, Emily Noelle Lambert, Matt Dolen, Julia Randall, and Gus Johnson, with the invaluable support of interns Emil Byun and Kat Thomsen (in front).
2024 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION: “The Women of the June Kelly Gallery,” Group exhibition, Jan 18 to Feb 27, 2024.
June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer St, Floor 3, New York, NY 10012.
Installation image (left to right): Sky Pape (“Diving into the Wreck,” Sumi ink, water. Flashe on paper, 69 inches h x 51.5 in w), Sarah Plimpton (book on pedestal), Debra Priestly (ceramic sculpture), Elizabeth Catlett (marble sculpture). Also including Karin Batten, Claudia DeMonte, Joan Giordano, Su-Li Hung, Su Kwak, Sandra Lerner, Lisa Mackie, Jane Schneider, Posoon Park Sun, Philemona Williamson, Rebecca Welz, and Nola Zirin.
2023: SOLO EXHIBITION:
Beauty, Marks, and Blemishes
Dec 9, 2023 – Jan 7, 2024
Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
23 Garrison’s Landing
Garrison, NY 10524
Read about this in, “The Blemish in the Pattern,” by Alison Rooney for The Highlands Current, Dec 15, 2023
(Image: “The Making of a Poet,” Flashe & gouache on paper, 22.5″h x 30″w)
2022: SOLO EXHIBITION:
Increments & Incidents, at The Garage Art Center in Queens, NY. October 15th – November 20th, 2022.
This exhibition presented recent pieces from Sky Pape’s Anomalies series, with sources of inspiration ranging from dinner plates to astrophysics. Using geometry and patterns, Pape references systems that operate within us, and those within which we exist, addressing themes of perception and uncertainty. Pulsating with irregularities, the human hand is always evident in these structured, intricate compositions. “I’m fascinated by the leaps the mind makes when confronted by something that’s a little off, creating a space for unexpected realizations to arise,” she says.
QUICK READ: “Increments & Incidents: Interview with Artist Sky Pape,” by Meagan Meehan, November 8th, 2022.
Image above: Sky Pape, Receiver, acrylic, ink & acrylic gouache on paper, 22.5″ square. Photo: Pauline Shapiro