2026 Exhibition

Sentinel by Vince Skelly

July 18 – August 31, 2026

                             

Introducing Sentinel, a site-specific exhibition of 12 sculptural works by California artist Vince Skelly, on view at Antica Terra from July 18–August 31, 2026.

Sentinel marks the second annual summer exhibition at Antica Terra, with works concentrated across a section of our 88-acre oak woodland, standing as human and arboreal figurations amid the landscape.

The show presents a series of vertical forms initially borne of Skelly’s sketches for chess pieces, scaled up through the stacking of discrete shapes that build toward their full height with a false precarity; delicately balanced but unable to topple apart. The land takes on the artist’s constructions of spheres, rectangles, and triangles, as well as other, less familiar combinations of surfaces and angles, offering an elemental geometry that invites a deeper understanding of their materiality and, in turn, the teeming site of the exhibition itself.

The works are sited along and around the Table in the Trees, Antica Terra’s 200-foot concrete table ribboning through the native oak woodland. Each work, carved from a single piece of Redwood—native to Oregon and California—maintains its idiosyncrasies: fissures, grain, growth rings, and chainsaw marks alike engage our perception of wood and illuminate its biology without obfuscating Skelly’s touch, toolings, and processes. This treatment translates to the artist’s two bronze works, which preserve the character of their original carved forms, cast to carry over every detail from wood to metal.

Both are prepared for subtle transfigurations by the elements: bronze will patinate over time just as the tone and texture of Redwood will change and desaturate over the season’s exposure to sun, wind, and moisture.

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Skelly’s first purely sculptural body of work, the artist removes function while supporting interaction. By extracting shapes from his practice centered on benches, stools, and other functional surfaces, the artist contributes new forms to his own vocabulary, creating apertures where creatures of the woods may rest or nest; basins where they may drink or bathe. As we move through and towards these works we discover their nature in nature—a material returned, as it so rarely is, to its genesis.

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Sentinel is experienced as part of a visit to Antica Terra. Works are sited throughout the oak woodland and along the Table in the Trees, accessible during all tastings and dining experiences on the property.

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Sentinel is presented in partnership with Marta, a Los Angeles-based gallery for art and design that makes space for artists to experiment with the occasional utility of design, and for designers to explore the abandonment of function.

For information about the artworks, please reach out to rf@anticaterra.com.

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About Vince Skelly

Vince Skelly (b. 1987, Anaheim, CA) combines process, collective memory, and material to create wooden sculptures that occupy the space between sculptural form and functional object. Working reductively from single blocks of wood sourced from the Pacific Northwest and Southern California, Skelly reveals biomorphic volumes, unlikely angles, and carved portals within glyph-like forms. His work has been exhibited at Schneider Museum of Art; Bellevue Arts Museum; the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at WSU; Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles; Adams & Ollman, Portland; and TIWA Select, New York.

Photos by Brian Guido