Lucy Skaer is one of five artists in residence at the Chinati Foundation Artist in Residence program for 2021. The residency was delayed until January 2023 due to the global pandemic.
Lucy Skaer visited Marfa in 2010, Roni Horn’s Things That Happen Again, Pair Object VII (For a Here and a There) left a lasting—looping— impression. Horn’s solid, truncated, copper cones found repetition not only with one another, but also—in Skaer’s mind’s eye—with a 1930s painting by Paul Nash, Equivalents for the Megaliths. A British surrealist, Nash transfigured standing stone monuments (think Stonehenge) into modernist abstractions in the landscape. As triangulated with Skaer’s own art, Nash’s painting and Horn’s sculpture share a sense of density in ideas, forms, materials, and comprehension. Anticipating her time at Chinati, Skaer sees “soaking up the relations between sculpture, architecture and landscape would be a rich and productive experience.”
