Emphasizing improvisation and freehand drawing for phenomenological effect, Christopher Skura captures the speed of living in Lower Manhattan. His new body of work took root during the 2020 pandemic.

Christopher is a visual artist living in Manhattan but grew up on the West Coast of Florida. He received his A.A. in liberal arts from New York University and a B.F.A. in painting and a certificate in sculpture from the Ringling College of Art and Design. He studied ceramic sculpture with Peter Gourfain at Greenwich House Pottery, drawing with Mark Barnett, Nicki Orbach and Leonid Gervits at The Art Students League of New York, stained-glass design and construction on at The Peters Valley School of Craft, painting and ceramics at The Florida Gulf Coast Art Center and philosophy with Paul Edwards at The New School University. Skura’s work has been shown throughout the U.S., including multiple museums and galleries in New York City and Florida, most recently at The Carter Burden Gallery in Chelsea, NYC. In 2011, Skura and clay artist Julie Knight, built JAKPOT Ceramic Studios in the Catskill Mountains outside of Woodstock, NY.

Artist's Statement: “My most recent artwork is influenced by the street art that blanketed my New York City neighborhood during lockdown. These new works reference psychology, structural systems, emergence theory and the human body. Each work imagined is a psychological “sculpture-portrait” of personalities that I encounter. Some of these forms are plant-like but others suggest the machinery of a man-made environment. This duality reflects my visual experiences growing up in the lush Florida landscape and my current life living and working in New York City.”