MARKING TIME: the sculpture of jamie davis
On view May 30th, 2008 through August 17th, 2008
A Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist Exhitbition
Using wax, cotton batting, thread, and charcoal, Akron-area sculptor and installation artist Jamie Davis charts the hours, days, and years of her life in intricate works of art. Davis’s large, abstract sculptural installations explore the irregular relationship between time, memory, and experience.
For this exhibition, Davis has created two works of art that represent the passage of time. Made from thousands of individually hand-sewn, cell-shaped units, anamnesis (2008) features numerous suspended masses that represent the twenty-eight years of Davis’s life. Chronicling key events through changes in scale and color, these cloud-like forms create a literal and metaphorical account of the artist’s past. A second sculpture, cede/seed (2008), consists of 8,784 delicately sculpted wax disks, each stamped with a date corresponding to one hour between August 13, 1997 and August 14, 1998, a year Davis faced a life-threatening illness. Davis invites each viewer to select and take away a disk, an interactive process that reflects the artist’s view of time as a gift to be given and received.
—INDRA K. LACIS, EMILY HALL TREMAINE CURATORIAL FELLOW
[ABOUT THE ARTIST]
After earning her BFA in sculpture and metalsmithing from the Myers School of Art at the University of Akron in 2003, Davis completed her MFA in sculpture in 2007 at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Davis has exhibited her work in solo exhibitions at The Sculpture Center in Cleveland, OH (2005) and LUV Artspace in Karlrusche, Germany (2006), and group exhibitions at Boston Young Contemporaries, Boston, MA; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Gallery 244, New Bedford, MA; and Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH.
[ABOUT THE EXHIBITION SERIES]
Created to honor the memory of Wendy L. Moore, an inspiring artist and native Clevelander who died in 1997, this exhibition series provides one female artist in the Northeast Ohio region with an annual solo exhibition at MOCA Cleveland. The Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist Series consistently showcases some of the region’s strongest talent. Past recipients of this award are Wendy L. Moore (1999), Christa Donner (2000), Tara Giannini (2001), Lori Kella (2002), Angela White (2003), Carmen Ruiz-Davila (2004), Alicia Basinger (2005), Sarah Kabot (2006), and Olga Ziemska (2007). On behalf of emerging female artists in the Northeast Ohio region, MOCA Cleveland thanks the Moore family for their generosity and sponsorship of this exhibition series.
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