A Three Person Show featuring the works of Amy Cheng, Erik Schoonebeek, and Zac Skinner.
Artist Panel Discussion 2/22/25 2-3 pm Join us, and together let's consider the meaning of Home!
The exhibition "Home Is Where the Heart Is" explores the multifaceted concept of "home" across three scales: the personal, the planetary, and the cosmic.
Firstly, the exhibition delves into our intimate relationships with our physical dwellings, examining the emotions, both positive and negative, that these spaces evoke. It explores how our homes reflect our values, our social standing, and our deepest anxieties, while also acknowledging the potential for isolation and the darker aspects of our desire for shelter. (via the art of Erik Schoonebeek)
Secondly, the exhibition shifts focus to Earth itself, our shared home in peril. It highlights the environmental challenges we face, including resource depletion, pollution, and climate change. The exhibition urges viewers to consider their interdependence with the biosphere and to re-evaluate their understanding of home in the face of these critical issues. (via the art of Zac Skinner)
Finally, "Home Is Where the Heart Is" ventures into the vastness of the cosmos. While acknowledging the awe-inspiring scale of the universe, the exhibition emphasizes the limitations of our current understanding and encourages viewers to engage with artistic interpretations that explore the mysteries of our cosmic home. (via the art of Amy Cheng)
By presenting these three levels of "home," the exhibition aims to broaden our perspective, challenge our complacency, and foster a deeper appreciation for the delicate balance that sustains us all.
Garrison Art Center
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Sunday: 10 am - 5 pm
23 Garrison's Landing
Garrison, NY 10524
info@garrisonartcenter.org
845.424.3960
Free parking is available at the MTA parking lot on weekends, conveniently located on the east side of the train tracks. To access the riverside and the art center, simply walk through the tunnel that runs under the tracks. Enjoy your visit!
Brownsville Museum fo Fine Art’s 49th International Art Show September 20th to October 23rd, 2024.
-my drawing "Cliff Shelter no.1 with Storm Clouds", as well as my monotype "Flooded River Nomad Hut with Stumps" are on exhibit, and available for purchase through the museum.
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Stockton Art League’s 62nd Juried National Exhibition September 5th to October 20th, 2024.
-my painting "Anthropocene Landscape with Rainwater Tents and Kale" is on exhibit, and available for purchase through the museum.
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On view thru November 13th, 2023
Excerpt:
"The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz is proud to present “Notes for Tomorrow,” an exhibition conceived by Independent Curators International (ICI) featuring artworks selected by 31 curators based in 25 countries around the world to reflect on a new global reality ushered in by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Notes for Tomorrow” will be on view at The Dorsky Museum from June 17 – Nov. 12, 2023.
About the Exhibition
Coming out of a moment where collective crisis had to be managed through collective care, “Notes for Tomorrow” understands that no singular voice can guide us forward. Instead, it presents a network of overlapping solutions. The works on view are connected across geographies by a shared interest in decolonization. In many works, nature is a recurring focus; at the same time, there are projects that imagine digital space as a point for connection to one another, and even to the sacred. A number of artists stress the importance of sustaining cultural memory and sharing knowledge, while also maintaining a critical gaze toward the monument and the museum. Above all, the works in “Notes for Tomorrow” call for change."
WAVE HILL SUNROOM PROJECT SPACE October 25–December 6, 2020 ZAC SKINNER Ecocide-Drifter
In the Sunroom, Zac Skinner’s installation of paintings and sculptures explores ecological history, the Anthropocene and a dystopic future—consequences of land and water pollution, industry, capitalism, and other threats that have caused the displacement of vulnerable individuals and entire ecosystems. As an artist, geo-engineer, and backyard tinkerer, Skinner creates an immersive installation of invented makeshift structures, such as a nomadic hut, that resembles a temporary refugee camp in a post-industrial landscape due to climate change. A juxtaposition of creativity and destruction, his sculptures also promote survival and a DIY aesthetic.
Within this barren landscape of a dried and cracked riverbed floor with riverbanks lining the space, Skinner’s sculptures utilize natural resources that are available, such as the sun, rain and wind. The structures’ surfaces are distressed and look wind- and sandblown. Skinner explains that they resemble “relics out of time and allude to predictions about global warming causing increasingly violent storms and desertification with which we will have to contend.” He posits that this situation will also cause a scarcity of resources and more climate refugees.
Skinner incorporates materials and specific plants for their unique properties. For instance, aluminum foil reflects solar radiation in a solar-cooker, and Aloe vera plants offer medicinal and healing properties as well as the ability to retain water. Resembling an assembly chain, one structure collects water that is used for the plants, and another sculpture is solar or wind-powered. Skinner also incorporates detritus into his installations. Part of his artistic practice is to walk along the shoreline of the Hudson River to clean up trash and selectively collect driftwood. Along the edges of the Sunroom, his paintings hang precariously from dead branches and driftwood, with evidence of the storms and currents embedded in its surfaces. Inspired by the Romantic sublime, yet subverting it with his post-apocalyptic subject matter, Skinner’s vividly colored paintings serve as sketches for structures and sculptures Zac Skinner’s recent exhibitions have been held at the Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY; Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY; The Gallery at the Ann Felton Multicultural Center, Syracuse, NY; Geo-Co-Lab, artist in residence exhibition at Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, NY; Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY; and CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea, among others. Skinner holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BFA from SUNY New Paltz College.
PUBLIC PROGRAM November 5, 2PM: Virtual Meet the Artist Organized by Curator of Visual Arts Eileen Jeng Lynch, the Sunroom Project Space provides an opportunity for New York-area emerging artists to develop a site-specific project to exhibit in a solo show. The artists participating in the 2020 season are, consecutively, Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin, Gracelee Lawrence and Zac Skinner.
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March 8 - April 19, 2020
Rockland Center for the Arts
Garrison Art Center
23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY 10524
Gallery hours: Tues-Sun, 10AM - 5PM
PRESS RELEASE
Zachary Skinner finds beauty, humor, irony and playfulness in his use of cast-off materials and his otherwise dark depictions of survival in response to increasingly violent weather due to climate change. Anthropocene Drifter is a powerful exhibition of paintings and sculptures depicting the dystopian point of view of a nomad living in a future in which the Earth’s ecosystem has been all but destroyed. The large, interactive installation is variously constructed from recycled objects and other simple materials portraying a nomadic survival camp in the aftermath of a dysfunctional interdependence of man and nature. The viewer is invited to wander through this environment which takes us on a fictional journey. Included in the installation are live plants cultivated by imaginative techniques on structures that also function as shelters. Other functional structures generate solar power through the gallery windows. The intention of the artist is for visitors to assume the role of nomad/survivor and contemplate their own interdependence with the land.
The paintings in the exhibition reinforce the sculptures’ theme of new technologies that generate wind, hydro, or solar power as well as survivalist structures such as rafts and makeshift sailboats which through their precariousness reflect the fragile relationship between humanity and nature. The paintings also grapple with the relevance of the modern landscape. Using oil, acrylic, and mixed media, Skinner creates works that flow between authenticity and parody, fetishized forms and flatness, the Romantic sublime and post- apocalypse, invention and destruction. Paintings and sculptures can each stand alone, but together act as mutual supports for the intended narrative and create a kind of dialectical inquiry into the deeper existential questions of our time while addressing themes of humanity, ecology and sustainability.