Possibilities : Deborah Davidson | Recent Work

September 2 - 29, 2022

Opening Reception: Saturday September 10th from 2-5pm

These pieces speak to the fraying of our lives as we have known them to be.  But they also speak of possibility too, and diversity, the richness of poetic reassembly.

Pamela Drix, Artist

‘In my studio practice, I am informed by ineffable ideas – Language (and related text, voice, sound), History, Memory. What I want to do with the work is impossible; I want mute objects to speak. The process itself becomes a way to visualize this unattainable goal and therefore is the way the practice propels itself – so that the subsequent projects attempt to complete the previous ones. With the Dispel, Dissipate Series, Cris de Coeur and Making Joy series, I am interested in making manifest what I see as my interior life. The drawings made of color pencil on paper, are about things disappearing, about things ending. The paradox of making and negating occurs at the same time. They reference objects whose mass and weight are suggested, somehow adhering to the force of gravity. Yet they seem to be made of some kind of thread, intensely woven, spun around themselves. The drawings are unravelling, dissipating, dispelling themselves.’

Deborah Davidson . September 2022

Deborah Davidson holds a BFA from Binghamton University and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University. She is the Director and Founder of Catalyst Conversations whose mission is to open a critical path for dialogue between the arts and sciences. Concurrently, Davidson is a member of the Core Faculty, MFA Program at Lesley University, Cambridge MA. Her wide experience in the arts includes numerous invitations as lecturer, panelist and curator throughout New England. She has a long list of published works and is affiliated with The American Alliance of Museums. As a practicing artist, Davidson has exhibited extensively in the US. This is her first solo show with Jane Deering Gallery.