WOODS DAVY: CLOUDS FROM THE SEA
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Renowned for his gravity-defying stone sculptures, Davy presents works from his seminal Cantamar series—fluid, cantilevered assemblages composed of raw stones gathered from the Pacific Ocean. Each stone is selected through a ritual of attentive searching, becoming part of what art critic Shana Nys Dambrot describes as “a kind of wild collaboration between the artist and Nature, predicated on a mutual attention to chance and destiny.” Shaped by tides and time, the stones rise in graceful arcs that appear to float, evoking clouds suspended above the sea.
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I love the transformation of the isolated stones I pull from the OCEAN into contemplative, cantilevered arcs, floating like clouds above the sea.
In my book, there is a section titled From the Sea, which features the Cantamar works. They have been described by many as floating like clouds. That observation is certainly true, although they are more than what they look like. They are what they do.
These gravity defying, cloud-like sculptures express a feeling of serenity, which transcends form. That is what I experience, and I hope the viewer does as well. Woods Davy
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Denying Gravity: Woods Davy and the Assembly of Stones
Crocker Art Museum, April 14 - August 11, 2024
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FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION
A forthcoming, two-person exhibition at Laguna Art Museum in 2027 will bring Woods Davy together with fellow contemporary abstract artist Charles Arnoldi.
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Davy’s sculptures are included in major museum collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art, Laguna Art Museum, Palm Springs Art Museum, Weisman Museum of Art and Hammer Art Museum in Southern California, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, and Qatar Museums, Doha, and significant civic and corporate collections, including the State of California, University of Southern California, City of Beverly Hills, Cedars Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, IBM Corporation, Bank of America, and Toyota Motor Corporation, among many others. The artist lives and works in Venice, California.
