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March Issue 2005
Hampton III Gallery in Taylors, SC, Features Works by Jamie Davis
On Mar.
3, Hampton III Gallery in Taylors, SC, opens an exhibition of
new work by Jamie Davis. The exhibition, Transforming Clay:
New Pots and Sculpture, is the first solo show of the artist
at the gallery and will continue through Apr. 9, 2005.
A native of Pickens, SC, Davis has been creating art since the
60's. He received his MFA from Clemson University in 1974. Davis
has been awarded a Rockefeller Foundation grant, as well as two
South Carolina Arts Commission grants. His work is found in the
collections of the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian in Washington,
DC, the US Embassy program, and the SC Arts Commission, among
others.
The artist states,"Exhibited for the first time together, these three formats - pots, freestanding sculpture, and wall pieces - move freely in and out of each other, influencing and echoing. For a long time I've had a fascination with depicting changes in natural scale from the very small, such as cells and diatoms, to the unimaginably large, the galaxies. Verified and witnessed by scientific instruments like electron microscope and the Hubble telescope, each extreme of real phenomena bears strong structural, even artistic, resemblances, and I am awed that such natural solutions recur time and again."
Davis continues, "These extremes evolved, choosing elegant structures through time in response to different stimuli, curious and beautiful. And like natural solutions, artistic ones keep being born. Here in the upstate, thanks to Hampton III Gallery, I am able to exhibit clay's astonishing ability to transform itself into an unending stream of plastic forms and feelings."
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