'To me, these paintings are about the reconciliation and integration of opposites. Form-formlessness, darkness light, movement-stillness, hard-soft, change and changelessness.They have in them everything I have loved to draw. Dance, this earth and sky, the clouds, rocks, water, fire and growing things.They are not finished until they seem to me to breathe, until - seen indirectly, from the corner of my eye - they appear to have become living creatures.I want them, in any light, to be complex and beautiful when seen directly, and calmly alive when one is barely noticing them.'

Marsha Skinner Resume

Residence: Questa, New Mexico

Education: BA in Oriental Art and Philosophy, Antioch College. Other institutions attended: University of Wisconsin, Delhi University, Lalit Kala Academy and Institute for Advanced Studies (India); Smith College.

2002 One person exhibition of drawings, Harwood Museum, Taos, NM.

2002 "The Presence of Trees," Parks Gallery, Taos, NM

2000 "Merce Cunningham," an exhibition of dance and design curated by Umberto Celant. Travels to Turin, Vienna, Marseille and Stockholm.

"New Work," Parks Gallery, Taos, New Mexico.

1999 Cunningham exhibition opens at The Fundacion Antonio Tapies, Barcelona.

Group Show, Hong Kong, China

1998 "Taos Invites Taos," Taos, New Mexico.

1997 "Contemporary Art in Taos," Taos and Albuquerque, New Mexico

1996 One-person exhibition, Taos.

Lighting for Cage/Cunningham "Ocean," Lincoln Center Festival, New York.

1995 Alcove exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe.

1994 Costumes, set and lighting for John Cage and Merce Cunningham's "Ocean" at the Circ Royale, Brussels.

Art and Artists of Merce Cunningham, USX Tower, Pittsburgh.

1993 One person exhibition, Taos.

1994 Rolywholyover: A Circus: John Cage

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ( travelled until 1995: Houston, New York, Japan, Philadelphia.

Cage Memorial Exhibition, 65 Thompson St., New York.

1992 Winter exhibition, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York.

Set, costumes and lighting for Merce Cunningham's "Change of Address."

Set, costumes and lighting for Merce Cunningham's "Enter" at the Paris Opera.

1991 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh:

Participating in John Cage's installation at the Mattress Factory.

Costumes and lighting for Merce Cunningham's "Beach Birds."

1989 One person exhibition: "Thoreau in Taos."

Two person exhibition, Harwood Foundation Museum, Taos.

Four person exhibition, "Ten Thousand and One Marks," Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Communication is Peace, Tokyo, Japan.

1987 Recent Painting, Harwood Foundation, Taos.

1986 Two person exhibition, Taos.

1984 One person exhibition of drawings, Taos.

Public Collections:

Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe

Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque

Jonson Gallery, UNM, Albuquerque

Harwood Foundation Museum, Taos

Selected Bibliography:

2006 100 Artists of the Southwest, Douglas Bullis, Schiffer Publishing Ltd.

2002 "The Presence of Trees," Taos Magazine, May/June

"Visual Reconstructions," Tom Collins, Albuquerque Journal North, May 31, 2002

1999 "Painting the Weather," Stephen Parks, Taos Magazine (Jan/Feb).

"The Storm that Tames Us," Poems by Renee Gregorio (cover image), La Alameda Press, Albuquerque, NM.

1998 "Taos Invites Taos," Christine Hemp, THE Magazine (November).

1998 "Merce Cunningham, Fifty Years," by David Vaughan, Aperture, New York

1996 "An Ocean of Movement," Meg Scherch, Los Angeles Times (April 22).

"Explorations of the Artist's Inner Mind," Phaedra Greenwood, Taos News.

"Marsha Skinner: Recent Work,"

Christine Hemp, THE Magazine (April).

Skinner Evokes Broad Range of Character in Red," Malin Wilson, Albuquerque Journal (March 7).

1995 "Legacy Squared," Mary Jean Kenton, New Art Examiner (March).

1994 Rolywholyover: A Circus, John Cage, Rizzoli.

"Rolywholyover," Michael Odom, Art Papers (May).

"John Cage, Music for Museums," Jill Johnston, Art in America (January)

"A Valedictory from Cage and Cunningham," John Rockwell, New York Times July 4).

"Changing Aspects of John Cage," Roberta Smith, New York Times (May 6).

1993 "Sounds of Silence," Michael Walsh, Time Magazine (November), reproduction only.

"From Here to Eternity," Tobi Tobias, (March).

"A Talk with Marsha Skinner," Joanne Forman, Taos News (July 15).

"Movement Toward Death? If You Like," Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times (March 11).

1992 "Dance," The New Yorker (March 17).

"Une Mort Apprivoisee," de Nussac, Sylvie, Le Monde (20 Novembre).

"He who Wields the Mouse," Deborah Jowett, Village Voice (March 7).

"Surreal Beach Life Among the Silences of Unreality," Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times (March 26).

The 1991 Carnegie International," Kenneth Baker, Artspace (Winter).

"Une Stupefiante Maitise," Rene Sirvin, Le Figaro (November 19).

"Merce's Golden Autumn," Clive Barnes, New York Post (March 26).

1991 "A Cage Without Bars," Michael Odom, In Pittsburgh (October 16).

Carnegie International 1991, Carnegie Museum/Rizzoli.

1990 Taos Review, cover drawing (Summer).

1989 Ten Thousand and One Marks, Tisha Blankenship, University of New Mexico, Jonson Gallery.

1988 "2000 Years of East Meets West," Stephen Addiss, The World & I (December)

1986 Artlines, cover drawing (Summer). "Skinner, Brenneman: A Pair of Aces,"

Meg Scherch, Taos News

1984 "Primary Process," Meg Scherch, Taos News (August 22).