Artist Statement
My practice is grounded in photography and expands into painting, collage, mixed media, video, sound, and installation. I use these mediums together to build cohesive bodies of work rather than isolated pieces. Exhibitions are developed through sequencing and material relationships, allowing meaning to emerge over time.
I focus on Black presence, vulnerability, and endurance, working with individuals encountered through everyday life as well as figures drawn from personal and collective memory. Rather than presenting fixed identities, I am interested in how social, historical, and emotional pressure shapes the body and the image.
Photography functions as both record and material. I disrupt surfaces through cutting, layering, binding, masking, and physical intervention. String, paint, netting, and collage are used to obstruct or protect the image, reflecting the tension between visibility and survival.
Portraiture remains central to my work, but it avoids performance or idealization. Obscured faces and altered surfaces complicate the act of looking, asking viewers to slow down and consider their own role in the exchange.
Artist Statement
My practice is grounded in photography and expands into painting, collage, mixed media, video, sound, and installation. I use these mediums together to build cohesive bodies of work rather than isolated pieces. Exhibitions are developed through sequencing and material relationships, allowing meaning to emerge over time.
I focus on Black presence, vulnerability, and endurance, working with individuals encountered through everyday life as well as figures drawn from personal and collective memory. Rather than presenting fixed identities, I am interested in how social, historical, and emotional pressure shapes the body and the image.
Photography functions as both record and material. I disrupt surfaces through cutting, layering, binding, masking, and physical intervention. String, paint, netting, and collage are used to obstruct or protect the image, reflecting the tension between visibility and survival.
Portraiture remains central to my work, but it avoids performance or idealization. Obscured faces and altered surfaces complicate the act of looking, asking viewers to slow down and consider their own role in the exchange.
Mission Statement
Skip Texan LLC is a multidisciplinary art studio and creative platform committed to centering the presence, dignity, and emotional depth of Black people—especially Black women—through fine art photography, collage, video, and sound. Founded by Dynell Bonner, also known as Skip Texan, the company uses image-making as a tool for cultural documentation, healing, and visibility.
Rooted in postmodern aesthetics and informed by lived experience, Skip Texan LLC blends analog and digital processes to create emotionally layered portraits, conceptual installations, and immersive media works. Our practice draws from music, street and traditional fashion, and oral history to tell stories that are often ignored or erased in institutional settings.
More than a studio, Skip Texan LLC is a vehicle for social commentary and cultural preservation. We aim to challenge dominant narratives, foster connection, and provide representation for communities historically left out of the gallery and museum space.