Monumental Follies

For over a decade, Howard Skrill has been making paintings and drawings, primarily on paper, that explore the ghosts that arise as effigies, particularly public monuments in the US, force the past's often bizarre ideas into the present. These permanent additions to the places we frequent, even to buy a gallon of milk,  prompt shrugs one day and outrage the next. They are the ghosts that haunt our communities. We prefer to ignore them but sometimes they force us into battles...