Skip Arnold

Vintage Color Photograph 'Hiding, Tokyo, Japan' 4 Photo Quadriptych Signed Ed.6

1996-1999

C-print on pearlescent photographic paper. Signed and inscribed Final Proof. Unevenly cut borders. dancing shirtless sideways with arm out. 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 Muse X Editions. An (now defunct) LA based innovative publisher of limited-edition prints, Muse X has launched its first group of prints and is just beginning to make itself known to artists, curators, dealers and collectors. Among works just off the press are otherworldly landscapes by Barbara Kasten and Oliver Wasow, a sizzling sunset by Peter Alexander, abstract compositions by Pauline Stella Sanchez and Jennifer Steinkamp, text and photo combinations by Bill Barminski and Nancy...

C-print on pearlescent photographic paper. Signed and inscribed Final Proof. Unevenly cut borders. dancing shirtless sideways with arm out. 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 Muse X Editions. An (now defunct) LA based innovative publisher of limited-edition prints, Muse X has launched its first group of prints and is just beginning to make itself known to artists, curators, dealers and collectors. Among works just off the press are otherworldly landscapes by Barbara Kasten and Oliver Wasow, a sizzling sunset by Peter Alexander, abstract compositions by Pauline Stella Sanchez and Jennifer Steinkamp, text and photo combinations by Bill Barminski and Nancy...

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...

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...

'Dude (where's my car)' part of the series 'The Crazy Adventures of David C.', 2019 Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signature label with ...

'Whisky and Water VI' (Sidewinder), diptych - 2005 Edition 1/5, 45x36cm each, installed 45x80cm including gaps. 2 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archi...

Color me Weird part of the series 'The crazy Adventures of David C.', - 2019, 20x95cm installed, 20x20cm each, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. 4 archival C-Prints based on th...

Color me Weird part of the series 'The crazy Adventures of David C.', - 2019, 20x95cm installed, 20x20cm each, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. 4 archival C-Prints based on th...