STATEMENT


The sources for my Anomalies series range from dinner plates to astrophysics. I made these pieces working on the floor as I always do, with ink and water-based paints on paper. Shrunk down for the screen they appear more perfect than they are, but they pulse with evidence of my hand’s deviations - some intentional, some fortuitous.
Those irregularities, like the quirks in systems and differences within aggregate wholes matter to me. The unexpected realizations my mind makes when confronted by something that’s a bit off fascinates me. The anomalies show me something about perception and tolerance for nonconformity or disruption – enticing clues for contending with problematic or mystifying systems. What generates cohesion or collapse?
My mind lights up with the blend of familiarity and wonderment that arises when I experience things known and unknown simultaneously. Reliably, the most illuminating surprises come from lingering with uncertainty and reaching beyond the margins of my understanding.

BIOGRAPHY


Sky Pape has exhibited her works on paper widely and has works included in national and international museum, corporate and private collections.
She has been awarded two fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts/NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Canada Council for the Arts, E.D. Foundation, Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation, and Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance.
Her work has been featured in The New York Times, ARTnews, Art & Antiques, among other national publications. Sky has received fully-funded residency fellowships in Italy from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bogliasco Foundation and in New York from the Swimming Hole Foundation.
In addition to fostering opportunities for other creatives, Sky Pape is a nature enthusiast and community scientist, involved with oyster restoration and living shoreline health in upper Manhattan. For fourteen years, Pape maintained a parallel career in scientific research, and an abiding interest in the sciences continues to inform Sky’s work.

SKY PAPE



STATEMENT
The sources for my Anomalies series range from dinner plates to astrophysics. I made these pieces working on the floor as I always do, with ink and water-based paints on paper. Shrunk down for the screen they appear more perfect than they are, but they pulse with evidence of my hand’s deviations - some intentional, some fortuitous.
Those irregularities, like the quirks in systems and differences within aggregate wholes matter to me. The unexpected realizations my mind makes when confronted by something that’s a bit off fascinates me. The anomalies show me something about perception and tolerance for nonconformity or disruption – enticing clues for contending with problematic or mystifying systems. What generates cohesion or collapse?
My mind lights up with the blend of familiarity and wonderment that arises when I experience things known and unknown simultaneously. Reliably, the most illuminating surprises come from lingering with uncertainty and reaching beyond the margins of my understanding.
BIOGRAPHY
Sky Pape has exhibited her works on paper widely and has works included in national and international museum, corporate and private collections.
She has been awarded two fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts/NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Canada Council for the Arts, E.D. Foundation, Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation, and Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance.
Her work has been featured in The New York Times, ARTnews, Art & Antiques, among other national publications. Sky has received fully-funded residency fellowships in Italy from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bogliasco Foundation and in New York from the Swimming Hole Foundation.
In addition to fostering opportunities for other creatives, Sky Pape is a nature enthusiast and community scientist, involved with oyster restoration and living shoreline health in upper Manhattan. For fourteen years, Pape maintained a parallel career in scientific research, and an abiding interest in the sciences continues to inform Sky’s work.