Upcoming 001: Marta, Los Angeles, CA. From the Upper Valley in the Foothills. January 10 – 31, 2026.
Upcoming 002: Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA. Maker in Residence. February 12 – March 10, 2026
Upcoming 001: Marta, Los Angeles, CA. From the Upper Valley in the Foothills. January 10 – 31, 2026. Upcoming 002: Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA. Maker in Residence. February 12 – March 10, 2026
CRAFT CONTEMPORARY
Material Curiosity by Design: Evelyn & Jerome Ackerman
Los Angeles, CA . November 15, 2025 — May 10, 2026
The exhibition explores the prolific careers of midcentury designers Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman in dialogue with select works by three contemporary artists. Celebrated for their vibrant contributions to California modernism, the Ackermans partnered for decades on bold designs that brought warmth to midcentury interiors. Showcasing their ceramic, textile, mosaic, wood, and metal creations alongside new works by Porfirio Gutiérrez, Jolie Ngo, and Vince Skelly, this exhibition sparks a dynamic conversation about materials, innovation, and craft.
TIWA GALLERY
Play Sculptures
Tribeca, NY. October 19—November 20, 2024
Play Sculptures consists of twelve large works, including benches, modular chairs and tables and kinetic sculptures designed by California-based Vince Skelly, with pieces straddling functional and decorative purposes.
For his second show with TIWA Select, Skelly referenced playful (and child-friendly) forms found in mid-century playgrounds, including those designed by Jim Miller-Melberg, who is known for making concrete brutalist play structures. Miller-Melberg’s undulating concrete forms—with descriptive names such as “Turtle Tent,” “Fantastic Village,” and “Spiral Slide”—were designed as simple play apparatus void of sharp edges that enabled open and creative physical play for infants. Converting the visual approach into wood sculptures and functional objects has resulted in a body of works by Skelly that will incite playful and childish association, while fitting into Vince’s continued aesthetic as an established artist and designer.
MUSEUM OF CRAFT AND DESIGN
Indie Folk: New Art and Sounds from the Pacific Northwest
San Francisco, CA. 2024 (Traveling)
The Pacific Northwest is home to a unique artistic ecosystem involving craft traditions, pre-industrial cultures, and Indigenous and settler histories. Like folk art, the exhibition features handmade works that are unpretentious, and often blur the line between functionality and aesthetics. Artisanal woven baskets and tooled-wood objects mix with works that are makeshift, improvisational, and often employ salvaged materials. For the artists—patchwork quilters and abstract painters alike—a rural and working-class ethos of passed down knowledge and making do with what you have is as foundational as academics and studio technique.
The exhibition features an intergenerational array of 17 notable artists from throughout the region including Marita Dingus, Warren Dykeman, Joe Feddersen, Blair Saxon-Hill, Sky Hopinka, and Cappy Thompson. A playlist of Indie Folk music selected by Portland’s Mississippi Records, a record label and shop, will accompany the exhibition, filling the galleries with the sound of the Pacific Northwest.
Organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU and guest curated by Melissa E. Feldman. Indie Folk will travel to the Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR; Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA; Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA; and Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR.
CLAREMONT LEWIS MUSEUM OF ART
A Conversation with Trees
Claremont, CA. February 17–April 23, 2023
Five of the new sculptures are made from local trees, including magnolia, redwood, brazilian pepper, and pine, that came down and were harvested by Skelly following Claremont’s epic windstorm of January 2022. Using wood from sustainable sources is always an important part of Skelly’s process. The storm offered, not only a bountiful supply of wood, but also an opportunity to create new life out of incredible destruction and loss.
ADAMS AND OLLMAN
Vince Skelly and
Lynne Woods Turner
Portland, OR. December , 2022 –January, 2023
Adams and Ollman’s final exhibition of 2022 brings together new sculptural works by Vince Skelly (b. 1987, Claremont, CA; lives and works in Claremont, CA) with recent two-dimensional works by Lynne Woods Turner (b. 1951, Dallas, TX; lives and works in Portland, OR ). The exhibition, on view from December 10, 2022, through January 14, 2023, explores form through juxtapositions of scale, material, dimension and the playful interplay of positive and negative space.
TIWA GALLERY
After The Storm
Los Angeles, CA. July, 2022
On Friday Jan 21, 2022, a severe wind storm hit Southern California, with gusts of over 83mph hitting Claremont, a small university town just outside of Los Angeles locally known as “The City of Trees.” During the six-hour event, over 300 trees were blown over. In both an effort to assist the city with the cleanup, and to preserve the legacy of the felled trees, Skelly drove around in the days following the storm and marked trees which had usable timber, which he gathered at his studio.
The show featured an enticing array of pieces sculpted from six different wood types – deodar cedar, pine, redwood, live oak, eucalyptus and magnolia; varieties that were all new to Skelly. Ranging from the functional, like chairs, tables and benches, to the purely decorative, the collection provided Skelly with a unique opportunity to finesse his practice while still expressing the poignancy of the regrettable circumstances that the materials arose from in the first place.
ADAMS AND OLLMAN
Vince Skelly: New Works
Portland, OR. February – March, 2021
Using wood from a variety of trees native to the Pacific Northwest in addition to American chestnut and eucalyptus, Skelly works reductively to shape each stool, chair, or abstract form from a single block. Following grain, patterns, knots, and other irregularities inherent to the material, Skelly highlights simple and essential abstract shapes informed by intrinsic characteristics of the material. The sculptures are inspired by various traditions of wood carving—which is one of the oldest artforms—as well as by a history of objects that extends back to megalithic dolmens, ancient figurines, the sculptures of Brancusi, and paintings of Philip Guston. With a chainsaw and traditional hand tools, Skelly slowly reveals biomorphic volumes, off-kilter angles, and carved portals within his glyph-like forms, each bearing their own spirit, rhythm and personality. Skelly received his BA from San Francisco State University. This is the artist’s debut solo exhibition.
