Edward Ortiz talks about visiting Skinner‘s studio, confronting the differences between the art and the man, and the new style Skinner will employ for his solo show The Fragile Art of Existence at Shooting Gallery, in his article for The Sacremento Bee. Skinner has been making art since childhood, and he speaks with candor about how his art has been a way to connect to “the vast unknown.” Ortiz writes of a four-car highway pile up that Skinner was in at the age of seventeen. He suffered a brain injury that effected his memory, and senses of taste and smell for eight years thereafter. An experience that Skinner says “[...] intensified my connection to art because I was further removed from the immediacy of the world.” The fantastical imagery of Skinner’s art does capture visions not of this world, but through them Skinner is speaking out on the state of chaos and conflict our world is in. The switch in Skinner’s usual style for The Fragile Art of Existence, opening August 6th at Shooting Gallery, also is speaking out, this time to Skinner’s efforts of becoming more at peace, both personally and in his career.

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