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UPCOMING:Marks in Motion,” at the Bradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro, Arkansas. Curated by Ann P. Wagner, Ph.D. March 13th to June 11th, 2025.

Sky Pape will be a visiting artist at the museum, delivering a pre-opening presentation on March 13th at BAM, and visiting with the students and faculty of the painting program at Arkansas State University.

Image: Sky Pape, Diamonds and Bones, Flashe, ink & acrylic on paper, 22.5″ square. Photo: Pauline Shapiro


RECENT SOLO EXHIBITION: The Art Show, solo showNothing but Time at June Kelly Gallery’s booth. Park Avenue Armory, 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 Sky Pape’s piece Drift, as “Best in Show Object,” an honor bestowed to “recognize those members whose presentations epitomized the connoisseurship and industry leadership of the ADAA membership.”

Right: Pape’s work featured by the ADAA on Madison Avenue NYC bus shelter, announcing The Art Show.


Swimming Hole Foundation Residency: On Feb 2, 2025, The Swimming Hole Foundation brought together past fellows Matt Nolen, Sky Pape, Lisa Mackie, Emily Noelle Lambert, Julia Randall, Caryn Kreitzer and Debera (Gus) Johnson, to share images, stories and lasting insights from their August 2024 Swimming Hole collaboratory, Exquiste Corpse.
Click here to watch a recording of the presentation.


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