Indigo Davis

Thank you or visiting my studio. I work primarily in painting, photography and video installation.

The focus of my work is the nature of the erotic, as it provides interesting pathways to other core areas of life; spiritual, political, the interwoven relationships between authenticity and artifice, love, desire, mortality, issues of race, gender and sexual identity.

The erotic and spiritual seem to have been inextricable throughout human history, as evidenced by our arts, writings and other pieces of the archeological record. That essential link has been significantly weakened in our modern societies throughout he influences of religious suppression, ubiquitous pornography and the isolating effects of our reliance on new technologies for social connection.

Much of my work intends to touch that space where the erotic and spiritual may still coexist. Our sexual selves as a thing of matter - our means of reaching a common humanity on the most foundational of levels. Folded into this is the interplay of the artificial and the authentic in a culture that increasingly isolates us from those 'real' experiences we most desire.

I also often try to incorporate allusions to other works or genres in art history in a way to tie thei...

University of Miami, B.A. School of Communications
(double Major in film and creative writing)