Lindsy Davis is an artist living and working in Nashville, TN.
After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2014 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Lindsy spent time in South Africa studying papermaking and printmaking at the University of Johannesburg. In New York’s Hudson Valley, she studied organic farming and while working with the land Davis realized the necessity of sustainability, community, and skill sharing in her practice. Lindsy has been included in notable group museum exhibitions with the Parthenon Museum in Nashville, TN, the Cleve Carney Museum of Art in Chicago, Illinois and with the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is featured in Soho House’s permanent collection, Four Seasons Hotel Nashville permanent collection, and several private collections throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, and South Africa. Lindsy is represented in Tennessee by Red Arrow Gallery.
Statement for Mathematics of Mercy
Emerging from the still water, we reverberate our presence. Echoing motions radiating toward the patterns we know. Nostalgia, experience, identity and memory play an important role in how the mind perceives space and depth. Evolving my concepts from the wall to the pedestal and back again has allowed me to understand object as memory, surface texture as time and shine as the reflection of the self. Shapes play with domesticity, stacking, and vibrating unoccupied space. By burning my sculptures; sewing and stuffing my paintings, the process yields meaning. The domesticated, teetering balance of our identities, burned or stuffed as a response to gender roles being assumed, protected, reinstated, and rebelled against. Repetition, whether in mark making, movement, breath, material or routine- surrounds our presence and dictates our reality.
