Andy Davis drifts between painting, performance and moving image. Davis has performed and exhibited both within the US and internationally. Residencies and fellowships include Muong Studio, Hoa Binh, Vietnam; SOMA Summer, Mexico City, Mexico; ENSA + FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France; The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY; Nakanojo Biennale 2019, Nakanojo, Japan; ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI. In early 2020, he was a visiting artist at the Galveston Artist Residency. Davis lives and works on the Atlantic Coastal Plain in what is currently known as Philadelphia, PA.

My artistic life arises out of a romantic identification with the land and its constituent parts. My work is a means of navigating the middle position of being separate and at the same time entangled in the environment. Painting and pigment-making enact the fantasy of splitting into infinitely fine pieces to disperse throughout air and land. Other works relate to theater, merging the actor with the backdrop to question the boundaries between distinct categories. All involve a range of gestures, private symbols and visual quotations to create sensation and pointed ambiguity. The works aim to counter the acceleration of contemporary life and ecological twilight.

I apply to ‘WHERE ARE YOU NOW?’ with my ongoing series 'Annunciations’, produced in my studio near the banks of the Schuylkill River and Wissahickon Creek. These small works on paper are an abstract diary, an intimate archive of emotional and environmental shifts, and a daily practice in the midst of a global pandemic and climate crisis. They are also the testing grounds for my experiments in pigment-making, using both mineral and natural dyestuffs foraged from abundant native species and ochre bands nearby.