Haida Art Today

original art by Sheldon Skillie

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The greatest invention, the wheel? I certainly couldn't imagine skating or bicycling without one, so, I'm grateful for it and pay tribute to its rolling motion as much as I can. To the left is my friend Chris skating the Tigard park. l tend to hit it up early, as to not annoy the young rippers with my non ripping ways. Seriously, the kids nowadays KILL IT! These bikes are my wife and I's main mode of transpo. Reliable lugged frame beauties.
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Portland, Oregon, United States
I am a Haida/Lakota artist currently working in ink on paper, acrylics on canvas and paper, argillite carving, and wood relief carving. I have been drawing all my life, have studied art briefly in college, and have apprenticed under professional native Alaskan artists Norman Jackson(Tlingit) and Don Varnell(Haida). Influences on my current works vary widely, incorporating ballet-like movements taken from skateboarding, the curvilnear sculptural lines found in northwest skateparks, the distorted waveform of my favorite modern rock/jazz/punk music, of course contemporary pop art, and the refinement found in traditional northern northwest coast native art, especially Haida and Tlingit art. I was born in Mountain View, California, grew up between Seattle, Washington, and Ketchikan Alaska, eventually settling in beautiful Portland, Oregon.