Featured News | June 3, 2015
From the Daly Projects Facebook page:
Daly Projects, 125 E. Pearl St. (downstairs) in Jackson, is pleased to present “Figures,” an exhibit of new work by Jackson artists Camille Davis and Ed Lavino from June 3-27. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, June 11, 5-9 p.m. in conjunction with the Contour Music Festival opening night Artwalk.
“Figures” explores the human figure in two distinct mediums.
Painter Camille Davis will show two series of portraits in oil. Six large-scale impressionist portraits capture images of her friends, a generation of creative iconoclasts. The other series, entitled “Fire in the Sky,” features expressive brushstrokes and injections of intense color to represent individuals as slightly alien and obscured. Working in a way that captures the essence of her subject and the artist’s mood and vision, Davis conjures classic impressionism, adding her own contemporary edge.
Camille Davis was raised in Jackson, and currently resides in Wilson. She received her BFA from Northwest College of Art. In her work, Camille combines her expressionistic tendencies with a classic approach to composition and still-life study. Working in oil, pastel, watercolor, print, and silverpoint, she often addresses mortality and the fleeting moment through natural imagery. She has had many successful exhibitions in the past several years in Jackson Hole, including her solo show “By and By” at the Center for the Arts in November 2014.
Photographer Ed Lavino will show recent figurative photographs. Some are posed compositions of a figure within a landscape. Others are what he calls “traveling portraits,” based on chance encounters with interesting individuals who agree to be photographed in their environment, indoors, or outdoors. The work on display will primarily be black and white traditional silver prints. “I live for those moments behind the lens when my model and her environment merge to become one poetic statement,” he said.
The “Figures” exhibit coincides with the publication of a book of Lavino’s work, Prevailing Westerlies (Sastrugi Press, June 2015).
The Wyoming Arts Council believes that experiencing the arts should be accessible for all, including people with mental and/or physical disabilities, older adults, military/veterans, people living in institutions and those who lack access to the arts due to geographic isolation, cultural difference and economic hardship.
