Granite
These sculptures result from Davy’s
movement into the realm of mass and volume. The work is heavy and
earthy and has lower centers of gravity that are more relative to the
world of flesh than the world of skin. While these forms retain
biomorphic tendencies, their dramatic scale can sometimes project an
almost menacing presence; they can also seem like brutish giants poised
mid-motion, alien trees heavy with strange fruits and bowed heads.
Granite is perhaps the most convincing achievement to date of the
marriage of spirit and intellect, mind and body that Davy has been
formulating all these years. These sculptures keep the promise of the
unexpected in the early works, but they return more existentiality to
the stones by resisting resolution in favor of a dynamic, androgynous
sensuality. Granite is rough trade, agitated and very much in
progress.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
from catalog
essay “Evidence of Formation,” 2004
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