Bear Gallery, 1980
"His paintings, many of which are small and jewel like, have the quality of a landscape never seen, yet forever remembered." - quote from "Synopsis of Ten Americans" by Elliott Budd Hopkins
Alf Skondovitch is alive and well and living in Fairbanks producing monoprints. This month the Alaska Association for the Arts is featuring a collection of Skondovitch’s recent monoprints at Alaskaland’s Bear Gallery.
An exhibit of his works opens Wednesday and continues through the end of the month. There will be an opening reception for Skondovitch Sept. 7 from 2 to 5 p.m. The public is invited.
Alf Skondovitch was born in London in 1927. He began exhibiting in the smaller galleries of Greenwich Village, displaying his works in small group shows which included the legendary Franz Kline, Earl Kerkam and Alf’s friends, Gandy Brodie and Robert De Niro.
He was invited to exhibit at the Poindexter Gallery in New York, an "uptown gallery" whose stable at the time included Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg and Richard Diebenkorn. His works were noted by Dore Ashton of the New York Times and Thomas Hess of Art News.
Skondovitch participated in a monoprint workshop with Richard Martin Ash last fall. The workshop, sponsored by the Alaska Association for the Arts and the University of Alaska-Fairbanks art department, led Alf to begin this new series of works.
He is also working on a series of paintings and other monoprints in his new studio in Fairbanks.
Bear Gallery hours are Sunday through Thursday open from 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 12:30 to 8:30 p.m. For more information, call 456-6485.
