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A Loss of Innocence: paintings by Rachel Davis

Rachel Davis

Artist’s statement: That art brings to expression a naked spirituality without any necessary basis in religion (though religious themes are a fine tool in art as well).

My favorite art was done in the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century including and up to New York School and I have therefor learned the most by studying these modernist masters.

I like for art to be to transcend the boundaries of language and as such am a little turned off by these strong intellectual tendencies of post modernism which limits visual statement to something literary and in that sense inorganic.

Apparition of Poverty by Rachel Davis
Apparition of Poverty
Dreamer by Rachel Davis
Dreamer
Theatrics by Rachel Davis
Theatrics

Rachel Davis

Rachel was born in Snow Hill in Eastern North Carolina and earned an undergraduate degree in art at Winthrop University. She married, had two sons and a daughter and lived in the Dominican Republic for ten years before coming home to return to university. She earned a graduate degree in Art at East Carolina University and taught school at Fort Bragg for 21 years before taking early retirement to paint full time in 1994.

Rachel has worked professionally in both theater stage design and as a muralist, designing sets a number of theatres and producing murals in Fayetteville, Miami and the Dominican Republic.

She's had over forty shows in North Carolina and Florida galleries and is a contributing artist and member of Cape Fear Studios.

Author: Rachel Davis Tags: painting, Rachel Davis Category: Visual Art and Visual Poetry October 22, 2013

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  1. Sam Silva says

    October 23, 2013 at 7:01 am

    Rachel Davis is brilliant

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