ARTnews, 2014
Essay by Jo Anna Isaak
"The Bellagio Suite"
The Landscape Explored:
Interview by William Forrestall
Telegraph-Journal, 2013
The Aquinian, 2013
NY Arts Magazine, 2007
NY Arts Magazine, 2004
NY Arts Magazine, 2001
Artnet.com, 2001
Review Magazine, 1999
Cover Magazine, 1999
Essay by Jonathan Goodman
"Inklings"
Manhattan Times,
2005
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Sky Pape at June Kelly Gallery
by Mark Daniel Cohen, Review Magazine, June 1999
Excerpted from a review of the solo exhibition "Inklings: Drawings"
…[Her method] turns out to be a remarkably effective technique of
abstraction, for conveying the sensation of disembodied tangibles,
of physical facts with no configuration drawn from nature.
…Pape's paper-and-ink technique is thus remarkably capable of conveying
a sense of tangible mystery, of a heavy presence of the half of
our world that is forever beyond precise conception but is ever
close at hand. She sees and reveals the thing that is felt to be
just over one's shoulder, that is caught momentarily out of the
corner of the eye, that is nearby until one looks straight at it
and then isn't there at allthe thing that comes only in inklings.
…Pape's visual language speaks of such things that are past the
grasp of direct statement.
…Pape's artistic language is the language of nature because it
has been developed out of her craft, out of the manipulation of
the simple materials of art. That is the reason her idiosyncratic
manner is legible to us. It is something more than a private code
of meaning; it is why we are fluent in her language.
…Pape is clearly among those artists who know that a great deal
of art has been and continues to be about mystery, that art often
makes mystery tangible, that it often reveals mystery, which is
not to dispel it but to make it evident, make it immediate, while
retaining all that is mysterious about that truth the artist is
pursuing. All is revealed even as nothing is deduced, is simplified,
is made digestible, is made comfortable, is made the receptacle
for mere opinion.
It is simpler and more direct to say that art has often been a
sibling of mysticism. Religious art, Byzantine art, art of pure
abstraction has had much in common with meditative disciplines whose
goal is to alter consciousness. And much of art still does, when
it is created with the passion that Pape has infused into her works,
and through her works, into her viewers.
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