David Skillicorn
David Skillicorn Bio
“The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure. My work is an expression of joy. Joy in color. Joy in gesture. Joy in the act of creating itself." - Artist David Skillicorn
American abstract painter David Skillicorn sees painting as pure celebration. For more than 20 years, Skillicorn has dazzled clients with his luminous abstract artworks. Based in New York and Massachusetts, he has recently been exploring the complex spatial and color relationships of floral abstracts. Soft, sensual, and expansive, Skillicorn’s Botánica paintings breathe elegance, calm, joy, and exquisite beauty.
Interestingly, Skillicorn is a veteran documentary filmmaker whose Emmy award winning career spanned some 20 years. It was through film and cinematography that the artist not only fine tuned his eye for artistic detail and composition, but uncovered a passion for painting. While filming a story about artists on Cape Cod, he met up with a master painter at dawn to document his artistic process. As Skillicorn filmed, the artist set up his blank canvas, and with just five or six strokes, created what Skillicorn called - “magic”.
Though it had never occurred to him before, this single, artistic experience moved the filmmaker to himself become a painter.
Skillicorn pursued his passion, and for the past twenty years has been drawn to abstract painting because, for him, it is the most challenging, the most mysterious, and ultimately, the most magical. Skillicorn shows his work regularly at premiere galleries throughout the country and his paintings are part of innumerable public and private collections.
Exhibitions:
2020 Chase Young Gallery, Boston MA
2020 Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport CT
2020 White Room Gallery, Bridgehampton NY
2020 Trove Gallery, Park City UT
2020 Jack Meier Gallery, Houston TX
2020 Paul Mahder Gallery, Healdsburg CA
2020 Desta Gallery, San Anselmo CA
2020 Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport RI
2020 Paula Estey Gallery, Newburyport MA
2019 Chase Young Gallery, Boston MA
2019 Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA
2019 White Room Gallery, Bridgehampton NY
2019 Trove Gallery, Park City UT
2019 Art Market Hamptons, Bridgehampton NY
2019 Paul Mahder Gallery, Healdsburg CA
2019 Desta Gallery, San Anselmo CA
2019 Art Aspen, Aspen CO
2019 Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport RI
2019 Diana Felber Gallery, West Stockbridge MA
2019 Paula Estey Gallery, Newburyport MA
2019 Elusie Gallery, Easthampton MA
2018 Paul Mahder Gallery, Healdsburg CA
2018 Diana Felber Gallery, West Stockbridge MA
2018 Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport RI
2018 Galatea Fine Art, Boston MA
2018 Paula Estey Gallery, Newburyport MA
2018 Elusie Gallery, Easthampton MA
2017 Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA
2017 Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro MA
2017 Northampton Biennial, Northampton MA
2017 Paul Mahder Gallery, Healdsburg CA
2017 Diana Felber Gallery, West Stockbridge MA
2017 Sprinkler Factory Gallery, Worcester MA
2017 Burnett Gallery, Amherst MA
2016 Paul Mahder Gallery, Healdsburg CA
2016 Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro MA
2016 Elusie Gallery, Easthampton MA
2016 Galatea Fine Art, Boston MA
2016 Hosmer Gallery, Northampton MA
2016 Greenfield Gallery, Greenfield MA
2016 Shea Theater Arts Center, Turners Falls MA
2016 Saw Mill River Art Gallery, Montague MA
2016 Burnett Gallery, Amherst MA
2015 Galatea Fine Art, Boston MA
2015 Zullo Gallery, Medford MA
2015 Greenfield Gallery, Greenfield MA
2014 Pushkin Gallery, Greenfield MA
2014 Arts Block Gallery, Greenfield MA
2013 Pushkin Gallery, Greenfield MA
2013 Arts Block Gallery, Greenfield MA
2012 Unison Art Center Gallery, New Paltz NY
2012 Pushkin Gallery, Greenfield MA
2011 Pushkin Gallery, Greenfield MA
2011 Hosmer Gallery, Northampton MA
2011 Burnett Gallery, Amherst MA
2011 Arts Block Gallery, Greenfield MA
2010 Pushkin Gallery, Greenfield MA
2010 Arts Block Gallery, Greenfield MA
2009 Pushkin Gallery, Greenfield MA
Public Collections:
New York Pfizer Inc
Temple University Chase Bank
Bell Atlantic
Adobe Systems
Montefiore Medical Center NYC
Northern Trust Bank
Dana Farber Cancer Center
Hewlett-Packard
Johns Hopkins
United Airlines
Morgan, Lewis and Bockius
Regent Hotel
The Austin Company
Intel
Heller Financial Services
The Rubenstein Company
Lincoln Financial
Voyageur Capital