STATEMENT

In the end, gravity always wins. It is the blunt and immutable force that has a constant effect, keeping us on the ground and ultimately pulling us into it. Sculpture by its very nature is in conversation with this pull, at times enjoying and acknowledging it, and at times trying to hide and defy it.

My work recognizes the force of gravity, sometimes tacitly and sometimes overtly. It is a practice of mixing the delicate with the ordinary. I have been mining the contrasts of sculpture, relishing the materiality while also attempting to address the ephemeral. Because sculpture is so heavily rooted in the ground, one has to accept its materiality. Yet some of the most effective work I have witnessed is that which attempts transcendence. It is that steady push and pull between mass and lightness, solidity and absence, form and void.

ONE & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

• 2024 Joe Davidson and Julie Easton, The Art Room DTLA, Los Angeles CA
• 2023 kunsthalle b – Mary Little and Joe Davidson, Bulthaup, Los Angeles CA
• 2015 White Dust, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston TX
• 2013 Elements and Waves, Garboushian Gallery, curated by Homeira Goldstein, Los Angeles CA
• 2011 Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston TX