Artists' Fellowship - 2000
Painting
Artist Statement:
My artistic explorations of the relationships between contemporary ethnic groups has stemmed from my own experience as an African-American woman of mixed heritage. Portraits, historical references, and materials are separate, layered and independent. The repetitive use of imagery changes in a slow systematic way from one portion of the work to the next. The complex layering and potentiality for labeling is a slow visual process, as well as a parallel to the complexity of contemporary human relations." Sepia and umber shades color the large, irregularly edged pieces Davis assembles. Using shapes that recall explorers’ world maps, she tells a story of movement and peoples, brought close by the resonant repetition of small, dark, anonymous but every-woman profiles.
More about the Artist:
Participated in the exhibition Buying Time: Nourishing Excellence at Sotheby's, New York, from June-July 2001.
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