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About Sky Pape

Sky Pape’s work is in in the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Tiffany & Co., Le Cirque du Soleil, and other public, corporate, and private collections. Awards and honors include residency fellowships in Italy at The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center and The Bogliasco Foundation's Liguria Study Center for the Arts & Humanities, as well as grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, E.D. Foundation, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, and the Chenven Foundation. She is represented by June Kelly Gallery in New York.

Pape is a nature enthusiast and pom-pom waver for creative folks of all stripes. She lives and works in northernmost Manhattan. You can find more of her work at skypape.com and on Instagram @sky.pape.

Passing Through: Paintings by Sky Pape

Sky Pape

Triangulating Peace (detail) - Sky Pape painting

My abstractions, hybrids of drawing and painting, are made with familiar materials like ink, water, and paper, and often unexpected, improvised tools like palm fronds. My idiosyncratic methods move … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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