Brett Davis, Sayaka Saito Davis, Toko Davis, "Love Like an Ocean"
2023
Used clothing, acrylic, glitter, transparencies, tape on photographs
ARTIST STATEMENT
Davis’ art practice draws connections between artmaking and fatherhood through explorations of love, care, joy, domestic space, intergenerational relationships, and transnational possibility. He collaborates closely with his four-year-old child, Toko, as a method to disrupt the hierarchies of family, empower a young child and himself and translate the experience of parenthood into visual art. The results of their making take the form of expansive, materially rich intermedia installations and self-published artist books.
ARTIST BIO
Brett Davis is a father, partner and artist based in Ohio. He holds a BA in American Studies from Georgetown University and an MFA in Visual Art from the Ohio State University.
Davis’ art practice draws connections between artmaking and fatherhood through explorations of love, care, joy, domestic space, intergenerational relationships, and transnational possibility. He collaborates closely with his four-year-old child, Toko, as a method to disrupt the hierarchies of family, empower a young child and himself and translate the experience of parenthood into visual art. The results of their making take the form of expansive, materially rich intermedia installations and self-published artist books.
Davis is the recipient of the 2023 Greater Columbus Arts Council and Columbus Museum of Art Visual Artist Fellowship. His books are held in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University (New Haven, CT), Brooklyn Museum Library (Brooklyn, NY), The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs in the New York Public Library (New York, NY), The Museum of Modern Art Library (New York, NY), The Ohio State University Rare Books and Manuscripts Library (Columbus, OH), Tokyo Photographic Art Museum Library (Tokyo, Japan) and Whitney Museum of American Art Special Collections (New York, NY).
2023
Used clothing, acrylic, glitter, transparencies, tape on photographs
ARTIST STATEMENT
Davis’ art practice draws connections between artmaking and fatherhood through explorations of love, care, joy, domestic space, intergenerational relationships, and transnational possibility. He collaborates closely with his four-year-old child, Toko, as a method to disrupt the hierarchies of family, empower a young child and himself and translate the experience of parenthood into visual art. The results of their making take the form of expansive, materially rich intermedia installations and self-published artist books.
ARTIST BIO
Brett Davis is a father, partner and artist based in Ohio. He holds a BA in American Studies from Georgetown University and an MFA in Visual Art from the Ohio State University.
Davis’ art practice draws connections between artmaking and fatherhood through explorations of love, care, joy, domestic space, intergenerational relationships, and transnational possibility. He collaborates closely with his four-year-old child, Toko, as a method to disrupt the hierarchies of family, empower a young child and himself and translate the experience of parenthood into visual art. The results of their making take the form of expansive, materially rich intermedia installations and self-published artist books.
Davis is the recipient of the 2023 Greater Columbus Arts Council and Columbus Museum of Art Visual Artist Fellowship. His books are held in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University (New Haven, CT), Brooklyn Museum Library (Brooklyn, NY), The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs in the New York Public Library (New York, NY), The Museum of Modern Art Library (New York, NY), The Ohio State University Rare Books and Manuscripts Library (Columbus, OH), Tokyo Photographic Art Museum Library (Tokyo, Japan) and Whitney Museum of American Art Special Collections (New York, NY).
2023
Used clothing, acrylic, glitter, transparencies, tape on photographs
ARTIST STATEMENT
Davis’ art practice draws connections between artmaking and fatherhood through explorations of love, care, joy, domestic space, intergenerational relationships, and transnational possibility. He collaborates closely with his four-year-old child, Toko, as a method to disrupt the hierarchies of family, empower a young child and himself and translate the experience of parenthood into visual art. The results of their making take the form of expansive, materially rich intermedia installations and self-published artist books.
ARTIST BIO
Brett Davis is a father, partner and artist based in Ohio. He holds a BA in American Studies from Georgetown University and an MFA in Visual Art from the Ohio State University.
Davis’ art practice draws connections between artmaking and fatherhood through explorations of love, care, joy, domestic space, intergenerational relationships, and transnational possibility. He collaborates closely with his four-year-old child, Toko, as a method to disrupt the hierarchies of family, empower a young child and himself and translate the experience of parenthood into visual art. The results of their making take the form of expansive, materially rich intermedia installations and self-published artist books.
Davis is the recipient of the 2023 Greater Columbus Arts Council and Columbus Museum of Art Visual Artist Fellowship. His books are held in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University (New Haven, CT), Brooklyn Museum Library (Brooklyn, NY), The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs in the New York Public Library (New York, NY), The Museum of Modern Art Library (New York, NY), The Ohio State University Rare Books and Manuscripts Library (Columbus, OH), Tokyo Photographic Art Museum Library (Tokyo, Japan) and Whitney Museum of American Art Special Collections (New York, NY).