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For the past twenty-five
years, Woods Davy has
worked with natural elements, usually incorporating various types of
stone in fluid balancing acts that reflect the artist’s “Western Zen”
sensibility. He might be thought of as among the first “green”
Postmodern artists. In fact, he comes from a long tradition of post 60s
artists, who either directly or just by their practical sensibility,
engage Eastern or Zen notions of oneness with nature, organic systems
of change as engines of art composition, and non-disruptive respect for
natural material in unaltered states. His work illuminates the poetry
of nature. As Holly Meyers observed in an exhibition review, there is
“something thrilling about a work that appears to defy its own natural
properties,” while at the same time one can appreciate the work’s
“meditative reverence.” Artist CV |
© Woods Davy, 2012 |