Jo Davis
Jo Davis is a visual artist based in Lancaster, PA. Her artwork explores themes of family, place, and isolation. For inquiries and sales email [email protected]
MessageJoanna Davis
b. 1977, Durham, NC
Joanna Davis, an American visual artist, focuses predominantly on abstract expressionist painting. In 2003, Joanna's father was piloting a plane that tragically crashed in the Appalachian region of North Carolina. This devastating accident claimed the lives of her father, mother, and sister, profoundly shaping every aspect of her life from that moment on. Jo has shown her artwork in New York, Providence, RI, Rome, San Francisco, Panama, and Lancaster, PA, where she currently resides with her three daughters and a doodle, surrounded by nature.
Joanna Davis graduated with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and holds an AA from the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. She has received notable recognitions including being a finalist for the Biomuseo's El Prisma de la Vida design in Panama City, Panama, and her artwork was featured on the cover of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 16.
Statement
I am driven by breath, stillness, pleasure, pain, and creation. I make art to describe the ineffable. Our world has become so rigid with structures of logic and definition in an attempt to control and retain certainty. The divides multiply and we are pushed further and further away from each other and in turn, further and further away from the energy of all things, the unity that truly defines us. An imbalance of rigidity over expansiveness feeds fear that keeps us from the true loving, mothering, nurturing self within all of us. How do we describe our divine connection, our deepest selves? Each painting is a prayer to loosen our grips.
My approach is deeply intuitive, guided by the process rather than a predetermined goal. I play and it is a dance between the tangible and the ethereal. Sometimes I construct, but typically I become a channel or vessel for the experience. My marks and the media I use change with my seasons. For the last year, the translucent beauty, endless variation, and earthiness of watercolor has called me.
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