Skip Arnold, Vintage Photograph Male Nude Platinum Print Photo 'Ring Around the Rosie' 1996

Description

Printed by Muse X in Los Angeles. These are unsigned from a small edition. sepia-toned platinum palladium photographs on paper … more Printed by Muse X in Los Angeles. These are unsigned from a small edition. sepia-toned platinum palladium photographs on paper by Skip Arnold, show the always attractive artist, nude, doing the titular Ring around the Rosie. It's a great subject, with reference to the Black Death, Edward Muybridge motion studies and Henri Matisse's Dance painting.

Skip Arnold was born in Binghamton, New York and currently lives and works in Marseille, France.
Skip Arnold has maintained a transgressive practice of body performance art, photography, film and installation art. In the style of extreme body centered work that includes such practitioners as Marina Abramovic, Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy and Bob Flanagan and Fluxus Art. His work is grounded in body politics, Self as Subject, Performance Art, Film/Video, Contemporary Art, Provocative body art, confronting the body as a politicized entity. In his performance art, Arnold seeks out extremes and intensities, testing the limits of physical endurance. Although Arnold originally started using video simply to document, he ultimately ended up exploring the medium itself.

Education:
M.F.A. University of California, Los Angeles, B.F.A. State University College, Buffalo, New York.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Studio Fine Arts and Liberal Arts and Sciences, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA.
Senior Lecturer, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA.
Visiting Faculty, ECOLE National Superieure D’ARTS Paris - Cergy
Visiting Faculty, Video/ Multimedia/Performance, FaVU VUT Academy of Art, Brno, CZ

Solo exhibitions include:
Christine König Galerie (Vienna, Austria),
Greene Exhibitions (Los Angeles, CA),
Galerie Frederic Giroux (Paris, France),
Aeroplastics (Brussels, Belgium),
Spencer Brownstone Gallery NY,
Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna, Austria).
ACE Gallery, NYC, NY.
Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Group exhibitions include:
The J. Paul Getty Museum,
Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach, CA),
Art Unlimited, Art Basel/33,
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
the Louisiana Museum of Art (Humblebaek, Denmark),
Offens Kulturhaus Linz.
Audrey Love Gallery @ BAC, Miami FL
Greater L.A., curated by Elenor Cayre, Benjamin Godsill, and Joel Mesler, New York, NY
15 minutes of Fame: Portraits from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol Orange County
How is Everything? Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria, curated by Edwin Wurm and Martin Walde

Awards include:
the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship,
Durfee Foundation, ARC grant
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship Grant
Art Matters Inc., Fellowship for Performance
Brody Arts Foundation, Fellowship for Performance
Foundation for Art Resources, (FAR), Grant for video less