"Skully makes paintings and drawings that often explore issues of gender and queer identity in layered, rambunctious scenes. With Blip, the gallery has staged a dense installation where Skully’s small drawings float around larger paintings, almost like seedlings drifting in the air, waiting to implant into the soil of her creative process.

 

Skully said she made most of the drawings while working at a wine shop, sketching on the backs of discarded signage. She describes her drawing and painting process as “more of a gut instinct of channeling the universe and subconscious. They are snippets and fragments of different thoughts and feelings and moments combined together to create even more surreal and dreamlike fantasy worlds.”

 

This new body of work, according to Skully, is a “celebration of imperfection—a fearless embrace of the unpredictable and the spontaneous. Each detail serves as a testament to the inherent beauty found within the unexpected, transforming perceived flaws into moments of transcendence.”

-snippet of press release by Debra Brehmer of Portrait Society Gallery, 2024