Diane Davis is a self-taught multi-media artist currently residing in the Bronx, New York. Davis’s work explores the physics of the urban environment and her love for dance and nature traverses onto her paintings.
Her work has been exhibited in BronxArtSpace, Selena Gallery, Long Island University, The Elizabeth Foundation for The Arts and the Conde Nast Times Square Lobby Gallery. Permanent exhibitions include The Arts and Artifacts Department of the Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture, The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Collection and Mocada Museum. She has been a recipient of a Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Scholarship, and for several years sat on their Board of Governors. Davis also has had residencies with the Ora Lehrman Foundation.
Davis works with a matrix lying flat on the floor, walking around it in search of her starting point. Each starting point is different, as the size and color have not come into play yet. She develops a background layer and finds her way compositionally as she visualizes rhythmic dance, nature’s algorithms, and layering systems. Davis loves everything about nature, its opposites that harmonize and communicate, textures, compositions, similarities in the structures of many life forms, and finding relationships she never imagined existed. By taking the simplest structure in nature and abstracting it repeatedly, Davis creates different outcomes with each iteration. At this point in her life, she cannot imagine ever running out of ways to express artistically what she sees in nature. Such inspirations breathe life into abstract paintings, collages, and glass sculptures.
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Davis taught an introductory course in painting and sculpting with CAMBA in Harlem.
