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| Gordon Skinner. Image via raggsnewhaven.tumblr.com. |
BlackArtistNews | April
1, 2014
Like untreated scabs infected
with anger and frustration, Gordon Skinner’s rough-hewed paintings are a
plangent cry for the need to heal the wounds of the social and economically
injured. His defiant aesthetic is a hard reminder that the world ain’t a pretty
picture; it can be vulgar and crude and wrong. Fortunately, there is a silver lining: the undeniable truth that the will of an artist is to create understanding
and clearly (as the embedded video below illustrates) Skinner’s practice is not so
much about the struggle to exist, but a way to transcend the pain and suffering
that comes with living.
Gordon Skinner on tumblr.
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