artist statement
As memories fracture through time, they become impossible to verbally recount because they no longer live in the land of words. My sculptures imbue a collection of absorbed histories that reverberate through the ceramic material. The figures use personal mythology to discuss more profound concepts about our connection to the environment as it relates to the interior and exterior of the body. My most recent series of work is a reflection on the seemingly psychic landscape of North Central Florida. This area feels as though it breathes an otherness that can only live within its luscious canopy of live oak trees, Spanish moss, and the densely tangled vines that ensnare the land. This series of work links the metaphysical interior spaces of my mind to the walls of a large enclosed room and manifests as an internalized mental space. It utilizes architecture as a physical barrier to represent what we try to repress and protect ourselves from, yet subconsciously drag with us. These poetic steps become ways to reflect a narrative onto the viewer about the unseen shadows we carry with us, and the psychic armor with which we choose to camouflage ourselves.
BIO
Sarah Davey is from Lancaster, PA. In 2005 she earned her BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and her MFA from the School of Art and Art History at the University of Florida in 2019. Prior to entering the graduate program at UF, she worked out of her private studio at 1241 Studios in Philadelphia, PA from 2006-2016. Sarah has presented her work nationally and internationally, including two invitational NCECA exhibits, Art Miami, La Art Show International Fair, Urban Nation Contemporary Art Museum, Paradigm Gallery + Studio in Philadelphia, and several others. She has been featured in publications from Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Juxtapoz, and Hi-Fructose. She is currently living in Illinois and working in her home studio.