Carri Skoczek “Hoodoo Voodoo”

Figureworks

[Image: Carri Skoczek "Untitled" mixed media, (2019) 11 x 10 x 3 in.]

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Figureworks present Carri Skoczek’s Hoodoo Voodoo. This vibrant exhibition takes the form of an installation, assembled directly from various series diffused throughout Skoczek’s studio. Her latest series, voodoo dolls created from vintage jewelry, is highlighted and joined with earlier beaded portraits, linocuts of inspiring women, erotic dolls, decorative weavings and even elaborate bonnets, created and worn yearly in Manhattan’s Easter Day parade. Truly a feast for the eyes, this exhibition celebrates the power and influence of women by using associated materials - sequins, beads, fabric, and jewelry. Specifically Haitian inspired, her beaded portraits are influenced by ceremonial voodoo flags and her jewelry-assembled voodoo dolls are loaded with symbols of protection, good luck, love and resolution.

Skoczek’s work has always been about portraiture and, for many years now, it has been an exploration into honoring the fortitude and strength of women. She says, “It is a sly homage and backward glance: ‘if I knew then what I know now’ - a stab at reclaiming the power and a reflection of the world around me”.

Skoczek is a NYC-based painter, printmaker, costume designer and voodoo doll maker. She has been exhibiting nationally and internationally for nearly 40 years. She studied drawing and printmaking at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and graduated from the Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design in Denver, CO. Skoczek received a Wisconsin Arts Board Painting Fellowship in 1986. She was the resident costume designer for Theater X in Milwaukee for 12 years and traveled in the Caribbean working on costumes for Carnival in Trinidad and Junkanoo in the Bahamas. She has been a curator for the annual Mermaid Show and an award winning participant in the Coney Island USA Mermaid Parade. In 2008, she was selected for a two-person exhibition and catalogue at The Portrait Society in Milwaukee titled “Pin-Ups: Sixty Years of Feminine Posturing”. Her paintings and prints have been reviewed or featured by the Third Coast Digest, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Brooklyn Rail and The Williamsburg Greenpoint Art and Newspaper among others.