Preview Showing of ENIGMA: The Works of George “Skipper” Captain

SUN & DUST invites you to join us on September 2nd from 5-8PM to view a curated collection of works by George “Skipper” Captain in the gallery showroom on Canyon Road in association with our show held at Relay on All Trades Road, – ENIGMA: (full show dates September 10-26). These special selected works will be on view at SUN & DUST beginning Sept 2nd during the Canyon Road Summer Walk and will be available to view during regular gallery hours through September 30th 2026.
ENIGMA: The Work of George “Skipper” Captain, is the first exhibition of a Santa Fe painter whose art practice of more than four decades was conducted thoroughly on his own terms. Working almost entirely outside public view, Captain (b. 1945, Manhattan, NY; d. 2025, Santa Fe, NM), known to all as “Skipper,” built a practice in unbound dry pigment on paper, alongside charcoal drawing, oil painting, and material work incorporating ground soil, dried grass, and salvaged metal. He had no formal training. His education came from books and from exhibition catalogues carried back from New York in the 1970s. ENIGMA presents more than 150 works across two locations, SUN & DUST and RELAY, the majority of which have never been shown. Captain showed publicly only once, at LewAllen Galleries on Galisteo St., in the mid-’90’s, where he sold multiple artworks, but never showed publicly again. This is the first time his entire lifetime collection of work will be on display.

George “Skipper” Captain
“Noise”
Pastel, Charcoal, Graphite On Paper
30” x 22” Framed
2022