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Phone (602) 541-9539

TURNER G. DAVIS

4204 North 19th Place 

Phoenix, Arizona 85016 

602-541-9539

turn.e@hotmail.com 

Websites:http://turnergdavis.com

TurnerG.Davis@Facebook.com



EDUCATION

MFA 1996 Painting /Drawing Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland (teaching fellowship painting/drawing)

BFA 1993 Painting/Drawing University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona



PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


2014 - Present 

Professor Arizona State University

 Painting, Drawing, Illustration, Storyboarding and Narrative Sequencing, Drawing as Seeing and Thinking, Illustration For Non Art Majors


2017 to Present 

Instructor at Shemer Art Center, Phoenix, AZ 

Drawing Fundamentals


2015 to 2018 

Adjunct faculty Phoenix College

Drawing I and II


2011 - 2015 

Instructor- The Drawing Studio Tucson, AZ Drawing Fundamentals One, Drawing

Teen Workshop - classes in Phoenix in collaboation with The Drawing Studio

Fundamentals Two, Drawing With Color, Color Theory, Painting, and Drawing 


1997 - 2015 

Gallery Director, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona. \

Responsibilities include: public relations (lectures,educational workshops,

 brochure design, and press), art historical research and writing, major curatorial

 and exhibition projects, translations, organizing inventory, installation, and art

 restoration.



2007 - 2013 

Instructor Desert View Learning Center, Phoenix, Arizona


2011 

Instructor  Rancho Linda Vista

Summer Art Program, Oracle, Arizona


1994 – 1996

  Teaching Assistant Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD

taught painting and drawing classes under the auspices of Professor Barbara Marcus and

 Professor Timothy App


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2016

“Passages” Eye Lounge Artist Collective,Phoenix, AZ

2015

“Works on Paper” Eye Lounge Artist Collective,

Residency Exhibition Rancho Linda Vista Gallery Oracle, AZ 

"The City" Willo North Gallery, Phoenix, AZ 

"Stone Soup" Eye Lounge Artost Collective

2014

“Kintsukouri”- book release exhibition, Eye Lounge Artist Collective

"Secrets and Spectacles II" Eye Lounge Artist Cooperative, Phoenix, Arizona

"Secrets and Spectacles" Western Arizona College Art Gallery, Yuma, Arizona, 

2008

 “Turner G. Davis- Fantastic Worlds”, University of Arizona Museum of Art

2004

“Recent Developments”, Rancho Linda Vista,Oracle, Arizona

1997

“Recent Paintings”, Rancho Linda Vista, Oracle,Arizona

1994

“Hospital Drawings and Sculpture”, Rancho Linda Vista, Oracle, Arizona

1990

“Recuerdos de Espana”, The Sixth Street Congress Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

”Drawings, Paintings, and Prints”, 830 Gallery, Tucson, Arizona


GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2018 

 “James G. Davis and Turner G. Davis” Studio 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 

“Chaos Theory” Legend City Studios, Phoenix AZ 

“Prep” Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ 

2016

“Snow” Coe House, Phoenix, AZ 

“Chaos Theory” Legend City Studios, Phoenix,AZ 

2015

“Tiny Works” (9) The Gallery, Phoenix AZ Spring 2015

“Eye Lounge Collaborative Exhibition” Shemer Art Center, Phoenix, AZ 


2014

“Figurative” Slow Art Productions, New York City, NY Sep 2014



2013

“Family Portraits”, Eye Lounge Artists Cooperative, Phoenix, Arizona, December 2013

“Works on Paper”, Arnold Nelson/Turner G. Davis, Rancho Linda Vista,

Oracle,AZ

 “Contemporary Forum”, Phoenix Art Museuem,

2012

“Lineage”, Father and Son Exhibition, Prescott College Gallery, Prescott, Arizon Phoenix, Arizona, February 2012

2011

“Turner G. Davis/ James G. Davis, Recent Work”, Studio 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia,

Canada,

2008

“Turner G. Davis/ James G. Davis, Recent Work”, Studio 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Canada

“Small Works Invitational”, Davis/Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, Arizona


2007

“Turner G. Davis/ James G. Davis, Continuing Narratives”, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale,Arizona,=

2005

“Wild at Heart”, Liz Hernandez Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, Turner G. Davis/ Arnold Nelson, Adja Gallery, Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada


2004

Group Show, Gallery Gora, Montreal, Quebec,Canada

“Parallel Worlds”, Liz Hernandez Gallery, Tucson, Arizona


2000-2003

Gallery Artists (4 separate shows), Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona

Riva Yares Gallery 2000 - 35th Anniversary Exhibition”, Riva Yares Gallery,Scottsdale, Arizona and Santa Fe, New Mexico


1999

Group Show, Peterson/Hall Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona

“Small Works Invitational”, Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, Arizona


1998

“Old and New”, Arlene Lewallen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico


1996

Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition (SITE), Juried Show, Emory Gallery, 

Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.


1995

“Hoffberger Show II”, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

Summer MFA Show, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Resurgham Gallery Annual Juried Exhibition, Resurgham Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland

1994

“Language Barrier”, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland



PUBLISHED BOOKS


2014

Kintsukouri” Inkwell Publications

2013

Josephine- The Girl Who Lives on the Moon” Inkwell Productions 



VISITING ARTIST LECTURES


2018

Teen Workshop (Ink) - Phoenix Art Museum

2017

College Night Workshop (Samurai) - Phoenix Art Museum

2016

Children’s Workshop - Phoenix Art Museum

Teen Workshop (Comics) - Phoenix Art Museum

2015

Residency and Grant from Rancho Linda Vista Artist Community Oracle, AZ

2012

Spirit of the Senses, Phoenix, Arizona, 2015 Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas

2010

Prescott College Museum of Art, Prescott, Arizona

2008-09

Arizona State University Honors College, Downtown Campus, Phoenix, Arizona 

Arizona State University Honors College, Downtown Campus, Phoenix, Arizona

2005

University of Arizona Museum of Art, Drawing Workshop and Lecture, Tucson, AZ

2001

University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona

2000

University of Missouri Art Gallery, Springfield, Missouri

1999

Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Missouri


TRAVEL/FOREIGN LANGUAGES SPOKEN

Fluent in Spanish. Travel experiences include summers in Mexico, Canada, Germany, Spain, and Mallorca, England, France, Holland, Morocco, Egypt. Five Summers abroad (Guadalajara, San Miguel, Mexico through the University of Arizona, Madrid, Spain, Berlin, Germany living in the studio of artists Edward and Nancy Kienholz)






PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS


Rancho Linda Vista Community for the Arts, Oracle, Arizona

Arizona Artists Guild Five(15) Artist Cooperative

Eye Lounge Artist Cooperative, Phoenix, Arizona


CINEMA


“Jolene” released Fall 2007. Next Turn Productions. Directed by Dan Ireland, cast including Dermot Mulroney, Chazz Palminteri, Jessica Chastain, Theresa Russell, Francis Fisher, Michael Vartan. Created all art, tattoo designs, including consultations and work on set designs.

Additionally:

Assistant to Grace Hartigan while in graduate school at the Maryland Institute of Art 1994-96

Assistant to Roberto Matta the winter the artist spent in Scottsdale, Arizona 1999

Assistant to James G. Davis in the Berlin, Germany studio of Edward and Nancy Kienholz.


BIBLIOGRAPHY


2016

Nicole Royce “Profile” Arizona Foothills Magazine August\

2014

Jenna Duncan, “The Art of Turner G. Davis”, Spring

2011

Elissa Barnard, “Father, Son Trace Lineage” (Lineage II), Nova Scotia News-The Chronicle Herald, September 29, 2011

2009

Elissa Barnard, “Not the Straight Story”, Nova Scotia News-The Chronicle Herald, October 6, 2009

2008

Kathleen Allen, “The Gallery”, Arizona Daily Star, March 21, 2008

Margaret Regan, Turner G. Davis, “Incandescent Fairy Tales”, Tucson, Weekly, March 6-12, 2008

Amy Abrams, “Like Father, Like Son”, Desert Living Magazine, February 2008

2007

Elissa Barnard, “Like Father, Like Son”, Nova Scotia News-The Chronicle Herald, October 14, 2007

Margaret Regan, “Little Art”, Tucson Weekly, July 28-August 4, 2007

Dolores Tropiano “Art in the Family, Father/Son Share Space in Gallery Art Exhibit”, The Scottsdale Republic, February 17, 2007

2006

Patti Verbanas, Art and Antiques, September 2006

2004

Parallel Worlds, exhibition announcement with photograph, Tucson Citizen, October 14, 2004