Title: Untitled (Door) Date: 1997 Media: wood, graphite, steel Dimensions: 72 x 32 x 4 inches Price: contact gallery for price Fassbender Gallery 312.666.4302

Fassbender Gallery proudly presents an exhibition by internationally-known, Chicago sculptor, Thomas Skomski. In a series of contemplative works in wood, metal, stone and rubber, he addresses a basic human dilemma - the obstacles to the discovery of the true self. He states: "I experience the work in this exhibit as a way of stopping. When you can stop you allow for silence...In silence only the necessary survives." The critic and art historian Marlene Doktorozyk-Donohue says, "Skomski's deftness as a thinker and craftsman makes these sculptures operate believably on varied levels, to assorted sensibilities. First, as sheer reductive elegance. Second, as elaborate existential analogues in which we are forced to confront through our very senses a moment in time when mutually exclusive constructs co-exist, interchange." Skomski, a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has exhibited widely in the U.S. and in the Far East.