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Artist - Dottie Korn Davis
About the Artist
Dottie Korn-Davis is a
multi-media artist working in mixed media painting, sculpture, assemblage,
constructions and sculptural masks. She is a world traveler/hiker who gathers
unconventional materials for her creations in countries such as India,
Pakistan, Tunisia, and Spain.
In an introduction to
her 1999 solo exhibition at the Earl & Birdie Taylor Library in Pacific
Beach, Mark-Elliott Lugo, visual arts coordinator for the San Diego City
Libraries, wrote:
“Korn-Davis’ spectacular canvases, created while listening to
jazz, are dizzying explosions of intense color, pattern, and texture. The
interlocking shapes she paints suggest glitzy variations of cubism or gaudy
jigsaw puzzles. .The mask-like works represent a body of work that is garnering
Korn-Davis almost as much attention as her paintings. They are exceptional
examples of the artist’s inventiveness and gift for recycling unconventional
materials into works of fine art.”
Dottie has a BA from
UCLA and a MA degree in painting from SDSU. She has exhibited in places such as
the San Diego Museum of Art, Art Institute Museum of San Diego, Riverside Art
Museum, Taos Historical Museum, Scottsdale Center for the Fine Arts, William
Grant Stills Art Center, the Canon Art Gallery in Carlsbad and, the Felicita
Foundation. She has worked as an educator and artist in residence in Spain and
China.
Her work is in
collections in China, Spain, the U.S. and California
Artist Statement
SCULPTURES:
I create sculptural pieces I call "Altered Egos" in the third
dimension. I love the surprises that occur when two disparate things tell me
that they belong together. When a complete personality emerges, the piece is
finished. It speaks for itself. It can be funny, elegant, or shamanistic. It
declares itself to me as a personality which often evokes the title.
I think we all wear
our outward personas or masks to present ourselves to others and on our mood. I
never know how a piece will turn out until it is done. The work that emerges
uses materials that have their own story and makes each piece and unique. I
have always collected shells, rocks and other natural materials with
interesting shapes, colors and textures. My pieces are tactile as well as
visual - the textures, shapes and colors play off against each other. Discards
and donations are often my tools and I recycle them into large colorful pieces.
Found objects of bone, feathers, shells, plastic, wood and wire, collected
throughout the world inspire my imagination.
The "portrait
masks" started as an ironic visual play on the title of Henry James novel
"Portrait of a Lady". Very few of my ladies are ladylike. However,
they have evolved a new life of their own.
PAINTINGS:
In an introduction to her 1999 solo exhibition at the Earl & Birdie Taylor
Library in pacific Beach, Mark-Elliott Lugo, visual arts coordinator for the
San Diego City Libraries, wrote: "Korn-Davis' spectacular canvases,
created while listening to jazz, are dizzying explosions of intense color,
pattern and texture. The interlocking shapes she paints suggest glitzy
variations of cubism or gaudy jigsaw puzzles."
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