Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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Biography
Leigh Davis is an interdisciplinary artist interested in the intersection of culture, community, and place. Her work explores grief, memory, and storytelling – how these universal experiences help define what it means to be human. Trained as a photographer, Davis’s work now ranges across media, from sculpture and installation to sound, performance, and video.
In recent years, she has been producing a body of work about end-of-life experiences (ELEs)—in particular, how they help us understand the emotional intricacy of grief and the ways in which we construct our beliefs about human consciousness and a possible afterlife. Her film project, Inquiry into the ELE (2016-2019), was exhibited at Vox Populi (Philadelphia) in April 2020. Vigil, a site-based audio installation featured at Green-Wood Cemetery (Brooklyn) in October 2020. Davis recently created Offering, an interactive public choral performance for Sound Scene festival at the Hirshhorn Museum (June 2022). Davis has shown work at Open Source Gallery (Brooklyn), BRIC Contemporary Art (Brooklyn), EFA Project Space (New York), Oliver Art Center at CCA (Oakland), Jeff Marfa (Marfa) and MICA (Baltimore). She has also created performances and/or events for the Morbid Anatomy Museum, Dixon Place and Hunter East Harlem Gallery (New York). Davis is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including from The Puffin Foundation, The Pollination Project, DC Commission for the Arts, and the New York Department of Cultural Affairs. In 2021, she was selected as one of the first Public Design Fellows in partnership with the Goethe Institute/DC Public Library. Davis holds a BFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design, GA, and an MFA from Concordia University, Montreal. She is a Part-Time Assistant Professor Parsons the New School for Design and works between New York and Washington, DC.
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