Jeremy Davis

I’ve spent years trying to figure out who I am as an artist. In this search, I have moved all over the United States seeking out forms and techniques - both old and new - as a means to study art. Initially, I pursued a classical education as I had hoped to join the vanguard of a new figurative movement in art. I spent years drawing and sculpting from life, studying anatomy, and casting the human form. While I still love it – and consider it my home – I came to realize there was an absence for me in that singular pursuit. I suspected there was something new for me to discover just under the surface of what I understood to be art.

For me, the moment came when – while practicing my viola – I had stopped playing briefly to speak to someone while holding the instrument. I’m not sure why I didn’t notice it before, but my viola came to life without my playing it. It was sympathetically vibrating to the frequencies in my own voice. This instrument - sound sculpture if you will - played itself without any help from me. It was an autonomous object of sound, much like myself. This was a start. Having been a musician for almost as long as I have been an artist, I longed for my art to have the intimacy and immediacy music provided. I never ...

2013-2015, MFA Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL, USA

2001-2005, BFA, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT, USA

2019 WIDE OPEN 10, National Juried Exhibition, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), Brooklyn, NY

2019 A New Media Exhibition, National Juried Exhibition, University of Indiana Kokomo, Kokomo, IL

2019 Do You Remember? National Juried Exhibition, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA

2019 Positive/Negative 34, National Juried Exhibition, ETSU Slocumb Gallery, Johnson City, TN

2018 A Sense of Place (National) Exhibition, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Atlanta, GA

2018 GlassAccess: Sound + Vision (Int’l) Exhibit, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2018 32nd Annual LowellArts West Michigan Art Competition, Lowell, MI

2017 Metamorphosis, Lyme Academy College of Fine Art, Old Lyme, CT

2016 Annual Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, University Art Gallery, CMU, Mt Pleasant, MI

2015 MFA Show 2015, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2014 Annual Sculpture Graduate Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2013 Funny/HaHa, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2012 After the Machines, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT

2009–11 Essex Sculpture Mile, Hollycroft Foundation, Essex, CT

2005–11 Madison Sculpture Mile, Holly...