Richard Thomas Davis, Ceramics II, 1981

Description

This artwork titled "Ceramics II" 1981 is an original colors screen print by Canadian artist Richard Thomas Davis, b.1947. It … more This artwork titled "Ceramics II" 1981 is an original colors screen print by Canadian artist Richard Thomas Davis, b.1947. It is hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 182/310 in pencil by the artist.The image size is 14 x 17 inches, sheet size is 19.25 x 22 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.

About the artist:

Richard Thomas Davis was born in Middletown, New York in 1947. He studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 1965 - 1966.

Davis's scrupulously painted views (whether of landscape, cityscape, human-scape or object-scape) are offered as ruminations upon that which will not be still, but now is still. It is as if he has withdrawn the air from his paintings.

And consequently, his paintings which, now evacuated, have moved from studies of those things inhabiting the world to a new status as icons of the moment.

Davis's iconic stillness is not the iconic stillness of religious devotion or transporting awe. Rather, his paintings offer modalities of a contemporary devotion—to objects, faces, cars, buildings and the residual landscape. (excerpt from Gary Michael Daults exhibition introduction, 2011).

Awards
2011 Inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (R.C.A.)
1993 Sponsor's Prize, 2nd Sapporo International Print Biennale for "Landmarks"

Public Collections
Acadia University Collection, Wolfville, NS
Stanton Armour, Lake Forest, Illinois
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
BC Provincial Collection, Victoria, BC
Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
Dr. Richard and Jalene Davidson, Chiago, Illinois
The Murray Collection, Scranton, Pennsylvania
Nova Scotia Art Bank Collection, Halifax, NS
The Seavest Collection, New York, NY
Toronto Dominion Bank, Vancouver, BC and Toronto, ON
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Solo Exhibitions
2011 "The Stillness of still-life", Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto
1990 & 1996 Gerold Wunderlich & Co., New York, NY
1988 St. Francis Xavier University Art Gallery, Antigonish, NS
1975, 1979, 1982-'86, 1993 Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Group Exhibitions
2010, '11, '12 Art Toronto, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2007 The Figure: from Cubism to Post Modern, Gerold Peters Gallery, NY
2003 Realism Knows No Bounds, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2001 Form and Figure, J. Cacciola Gallery, NY
2000 Drawings by 20th Century and Contemporary Masters, Forum Gallery, NY
1998 Realism Knows No Bounds, van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, N
1997 Re-presenting Representation III, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
1995 North of the Boarder, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Alabama.
1993 Juried show, 2nd Sapporo International Print Biennale, Sapporo, Japan.
1990-92 New Horizons In American Realism, Flint Institute of the Arts; Flint, MI; Naples, FL; Knoxville, TN
1989 Six Contemporary Realists, Gerold Wunderlich & Co., NY
1986-'87 Wunderlich & Co. Inc., NY

Education
1965-'66 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PhiladelphiaContinue Reading less