Denial

Skevi is a figurative artist who works primarily with drawing and painting media. Her work explores themes of identity, womanhood, disability, healing and her Greek heritage. “Since getting hurt two years ago, I felt like I received a wake-up call for what is important in my life: I am meant to create and not just consume.” Being secluded in a dark room for weeks on end with only pain for company was the catalyst for a surging creativity, she says. She couldn’t watch television, read a book, or hold a conversation at times. “And now that I am able to live a somewhat normal life, art allows me to escape a world that feels at odds with my brain, and to just be myself. “