J. Yvonne Skaggs

J. Yvonne Skaggs is an artist who exhibits two- and three-dimensional work in various venues in New York and New Jersey. She studied at the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History. Her varied career includes producing maps and technical drawings and designing and preparing exhibits for small history and art organizations. With traditional artifacts being destroyed around the world by man and nature, she has been considering what we mean when we preserve objects, paintings, and artifacts of all kinds. With the abstracted landscape images shown here, she thinks about the definition of style and culture and the objects we choose to save to record our time. She uses the technique of collage, reassembling elements to sculpt, build, and construct images. The papers and fabrics come from many sources — magazines, newspapers, photographs, paper, and fabric.