Growing up in Lubbock, Texas, Skibell, a skilled artist, has been drawing and painting original artwork since childhood. As early as the third grade, his teachers recognized his strong artistic talent and had him draw murals on the walls for the other students to color in.

He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin in 1968 and continued for a year in graduate school, majoring in graphic design. Immediately out of school, he went to work as a graphic designer in Dallas.

As a successful commercial real estate developer, he has consistently kept up his artwork from his expansive home studio and has shown his paintings, drawings and prints in various galleries and art shows throughout Texas and New Mexico.

In 2002 Skibell added a Whelan Press to his studio and has been very active in printmaking, primarily etchings, monotypes, and linocuts. His etchings are especially unique because they incorporate the use of collage and drawing with a relatively new process called “Solar plate Etching”.

The creative process that Skibell incorporates into his work includes a wide range of various materials and collage elements that are often found in his fascinating drawings. The collage elements used are often pieces of his past drawings and/or fragments of earlier prints he has made. All the various processes used serve Skibell well in producing his very well received contemporary art.

ART EXHIBITIONS AND COLLECTIONS:

2018     Selected by juried ART214 Show at Bath House Cultural Center. March 24–April 21, 2018

2018     Gallery Artist/Representation for the last two years at SMINK, INC. 1019 Dragon St., Dallas

2017     Recognized Artist, Art In America Annual Art Guide

2017     Gallery Artist/Representation at SMINK, INC. 1019 Dragon St., Dallas

2016     In Two Man Show, "4 Directions" at SMINK, INC. 1019 Dragon St., Dallas,  February through March

2015     One Man Show, January thru February 2015 at Louise Underwood Art Center, Lubbock

2015     Selected in Annual International Exhibition (Competition) at UT Tyler Art Department

2014     Gallery Artist, Montserrat Contemporary Art Gallery, NYC

2014     Collage drawing shown in Artnews Magazine, December edition

2013     Selected to participate in Love Never Dies Art Show at Latino Cultural Center, Dallas

2012     Two man show, Different Points of Contact at Norwood Flynn Gallery, Dallas

2012     Participated in Two X Two Art Auction at Rachofsky House, Dallas

2012     One man show of Faces put on by The MAC (McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas)

2011     Two works selected and winner of Cash Price in Art in the Metroplex, Gallery of TCU.

2011     Selected in New Texas Talent Show, XVIII at Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas

2011     Invited to participate in ModernDallas.com show at ILUME Gallerie.

2010     In Dallas, represented by Select Art

2007     One man show, “Faces and Flowers”, Works on Paper Gallery, Santa Fe

2006     Gallery artist, Works on Paper Gallery, Santa Fe

2004     New Texas Talent XI, Craighead-Green Gallery

2002     DallasMuseum of Art, Beaux Arts Auction

2002     BrookhavenCollege Juried Print Show

2001     TXU Corporate purchase, Dallas, Texas

2000     Selected Artist in the new book, “Beautiful Things from Guild.Com”.

2000     Metropolitan Home Magazine, the piece featured in Guild.Com advertisement, Dec. issue

2000     Art Center of Plano, Group Auction Show

1999     Gallery Artist represented by Guild.Com

1999     Exhibited Currents Showroom, Dallas Design Center

1998     Gallery Artist, the KarenMitchellFrankGallery, Dallas

1996     One Man Show, Artist’s Studio

1996     National Art Services, Houston

1995     The Pace Collection, Dallas Decorative Center

1995     One Man Show, Empty Walls Gallery, Dallas

1994     Group Show, Empty Walls Gallery, Dallas

1988     Group Show, EdithBakerCenter, Dallas

1987     One man show, TrammellCrowCenter, Dallas

1984     Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas