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

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