Christine M. Davis artist sculptor
Christine Marie Davis worked for two decades as a potter, ceramic sculptor, and jeweler before moving into mixed media sculpture. She maintains a studio in the Arkansas River Valley of South-Central Colorado where she lives with her husband, writer Ronald Sering and her Jack Russell Terrier, Molly Brown.
Christine Marie Davis - Resume

Education -

  • MA, Education, University of Colorado, Denver
  • BFA, Ceramics, University of Colorado, Boulder

Selected Professional Activities

  • Juror for "Metamorphosis"Sculpture Exhibit at the, Lakewood Cultural Center, Colorado.
  • Visiting Artist at CU Denver, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Metro State College, Lakewood Cultural Center, Denver.
  • Workshop Presenter at the Women's Spirituality Festival, Metro State, Denver, & theIliff School of Theology, Denver.
  • Guest Curator, Earth Sisters, Lakewood Cultural Center, CO.

Selected Awards & Grants

  • Black Rock Arts Foundation Grant - for the Pet-o-Mat Project, 2007-2008
  • Participant Grant - CAFKA '07,Haptic, Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener, Ontario Canada. 2007
  • Associateship Grant, Rocky Mountain Women's Institute, Denver, CO. 2005
  • Most Imaginative Name of an Artwork, Denver Post, Kyle MacMillan , Jan. 26, 2005
  • Exhibition Fellowship Grant, Littleton Arts Alliance, Littleton, CO. 2005
  • Best of Show, Tactile Art Show, Louisville Art Association, Louisville, CO 2002

Exhibitions

  • Sugarcraft, Kasia Kay Art Project, Chicago, IL. 2008
  • Pet-o-Mat, Auraria Library, Denver, CO 2008
  • Consumption Junction, Lakewood Cultural Center, Lakewood, CO 2008
  • Colorado State University-Pueblo, Fine Art Gallery, Pueblo, Colorado 2007
  • It's About Touch, Access Gallery, Denver, CO, 2007
  • Pampered Pets, CAFKA '07 - Haptic, Kitchener, Ontario. Fall, 2007
  • Juror's Exhibit, Two-person exhibit at the Lakewood Cultural Center North Gallery, Lakewood, CO 2007
  • Topeka Competition 28, Alice C. Sabatini Gallery. Topeka, KS. 2007
  • Whimsical Muse, Manifest Creative Research Center, Cinncinati, Ohio. 2006
  • Tangled Threads - RMWI Associate Exhibit, Emmanuel Gallery, Auraria Campus, Denver, CO 2006
  • Curiosidades, Solo Exhibit at the Kansas City Artist's Coalition, Kansas City, MO. 2005-2006
  • Children of the Cabinet, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, NY, NY 2005-2006
  • AAL Fellowship Grant Winners, Depot Art Center, Littleton, Co 2005
  • Topeka Competition, Sabatini Gallery, Topeka, KS 2005
  • Indulgences, Bernal Gallery, Pima College, Tucson, AZ 2005
  • Anomaly, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ft. Collins, CO 2004 - 2005
  • ZIPCO, Emmanuel Gallery, Auraria Campus, Denver, 2004
  • Obsessive Pleasures, Lakewood Cultural Center Gallery, Lakewood, CO 2004
  • Expressions of the Sacred, Iliff School of Theology, Denver, 2004
  • In the Works, Women's Caucus for Art, Lakewood Cultural Center, Lakewood, CO 2004
  • Veils, What Remains Hidden, Curfman Gallery, Co. State University, Ft. Collins, CO 2004
  • Maternal Legends, Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO 2003
  • Sensory Experiments, Loveland Museum/Gallery, Loveland, CO. 2003
  • Temptations, Desires and Forbidden Pleasures, Rocky Mtn College of Art & Design, Denver, CO. 2003
  • Interior Spaces, Lakewood Cultural Center, Lakewood, CO. 2003
  • Maternal Legends, Edge Gallery, Denver, CO. 2003
  • Earth Sisters, Lakewood Cultural Center, Lakewood, CO, 2002
  • Elektra, Women's Caucus for Art, CORE New Art Space, Denver, CO, 2002
  • Tactile Art Show, Louisville Art Association, Louisville CO, 2002
  • Centering: Ancient & Contemporary Expressions of Sacred Art, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA, 2002
  • Women Close to the Edge, Women's Caucus for Art, Edge Gallery, Denver, CO, 2002
  • A Question of Faith, University of No. Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA. Juror: Eleanor Heartney, 2001
  • Eros, Love and the Erotic in Art, CORE New Art Space, Denver, CO. 2001
  • Earth Spirit, Heistand Art Gallery, University of Miami, Oxford, OH, 2001
  • Faces of Women, Las Vegas Council for the Arts, Las Vegas, NM, 2001
  • Origins in Clay II, University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery, TX, 2001
  • 3-D Juried Exhibition, Old Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, CO, 2000

Selected Publications

Artist Statement

I like unexpected incongruities, anomalies of form, function or concept - invented objects that entice the viewer in but are also strange and unsettling. I like the idea of a paradox or conundrum, an unexpected twist that makes the viewer do a "double take."

When I begin a piece, I hunt for found objects that speak to me and are intriguing or unusual. These are often antiques or relics for which their use or purpose has long been forgotten. I also collect old cabinets, boxes, or cases that were once used for a commercial or domestic purpose and refill these with a new and unexpected contents or arrangements.

I use these found objects as a starting place to create sculptural assemblages that reference the body and organic forms. I look for materials that are tactile and inviting to touch with a rich diversity of textures and surfaces. I assemble and contrast these soft materials such as hair, fur, leather, wax and rubber, with man-made materials such as ceramic, glass, and metal. What evolves is an invented object that appears attractive, intriguing and familiar, yet is strange, puzzling and ultimately unsettling.

I am fascinated by our culture's simultaneous desire for, and aversion to, food, pleasure, and sensual experiences, and how refined, civilized creations can stimulate our most primal impulses. I am interested in pairing civilized constructions with suggestions of our most primal or base impulses and presenting these in arranged collections where these opposing qualities must coexist.

© Christine Marie Davis 2007

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