T h e A r t o f T u r n e r G. D a v i s
Hello and welcome. I'll be updating this with new images as I make them. Also, I'll be posting upcoming events etc. Be sure to check out my "Book Projects" page! Also, I have new pieces (along with my beloved Father) on display at Gebert Contemporary.
"The Wild, Wild Wind" 2012 72 x 60" oil on canvas
Artist Statement (oh boy)
I have been drawing since I was a little kid. I used to follow my parents around museums and made rudimentary sketches from canvases of the old masters. I used to watch my father draw and I discovered early on a doorway to parallel worlds scrawled into notebooks. Drawing saved me from the worst of teenage angst and served as a way forward when it seemed there was none. From drawing came painting.
When I'm at my best, my pictures skate along a crumbly edge between autobiography and the fantastic. I try to gently examine those places where the pleasure and burden of the body intersect with the lightness of dreams and nightmares.
I believe in being badly proficient and love exploring different styles and iconography.
I am very fortunate to be able to share these images. Besides the pleasure I take in making them, and besides their capturing a specific viewpoint at a certain time in this journey, I am interested in the dialogue they might create.
Artist Statement (oh boy)
I have been drawing since I was a little kid. I used to follow my parents around museums and made rudimentary sketches from canvases of the old masters. I used to watch my father draw and I discovered early on a doorway to parallel worlds scrawled into notebooks. Drawing saved me from the worst of teenage angst and served as a way forward when it seemed there was none. From drawing came painting.
When I'm at my best, my pictures skate along a crumbly edge between autobiography and the fantastic. I try to gently examine those places where the pleasure and burden of the body intersect with the lightness of dreams and nightmares.
I believe in being badly proficient and love exploring different styles and iconography.
I am very fortunate to be able to share these images. Besides the pleasure I take in making them, and besides their capturing a specific viewpoint at a certain time in this journey, I am interested in the dialogue they might create.
NPR Radio Interview 2014
(This broadcast plays automatically. Feel free to stop the interview at any time)
022614_TurnerGD…terview_MSR.mp3
Works on Paper
Recent Article from Arizona Foothills Magazine
http://www.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com/art/113-artists/7217-artist-spotlight-on-turner-g-davis.html
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