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Palli Davene Davis
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Palli Davene Davis
Palli Davene lives and works in North East Ohio surrounded by acres of woods that enrich both spirit & work. Since 1991, the Holding Stones Series, has been her principle body of work. She is a full-time artist who has shared her energy with curatorial work in art museum education and the historic houses of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Those efforts involve curriculum development & the design and implementation of in-depth public programs - the sensibility of an artist wanting to nurture & share the meaning and methods of art experience. In her youth, Palli was the designer & owner of Padala ltd., a small business that designed and crafted intergenerational "aesthetic objects of play" for the "gallery" retail market. The suggestion of play, if not literally, remains in her sculptures: hanging sculptures can gently sway, balancing on wall brackets and small pieces beg to be nestled in a person's hands.
Artist Statement
I am an object maker. My hands want to consort with my eyes, willfully and instinctually considering the many momentary decisions-each flick of the wrist, caress of a finger that form an object. My background is in the materials of pottery & art furniture whose twin sensibilities of touch & utility remain in my sculptures.
My major body of work is the HOLDING STONES SERIES. It’s a vital collection born of a brainstorming exercise: How can I hold a stone? There are only three simple materials. One, wood: milled lumber or dead fall from the forest. Sometimes the idea calls for careful engineering as in fine furniture while other pieces are worked more intuitively. Two: stone - essentially “found objects”. I haunt open fields, shores, stone yards and quarries to collect natural or fabricated stones. As a third material, some pieces use natural sisal, worked with basic handwork binding techniques. Multiples are common in this body of work. With small or large dimensions, they exist as singular objects or presented as an installation with all the separate pieces congregating together, each ‘the same but different” from one another. Whether it is the simple joy of the eye & hand movements that craft the form or a natural instinct to a mass a collection of subtle idiosyncrasies, I’m unsure.
This “unnecessary” function, “Holding Stones”, serves as metaphor for the human condition in the natural world.
Palli Davene Davis (Holubar)
FELLOWSHIPS
2001 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship for The Holding Stones Series (98-2000)
1998 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship for The Holding Stones Series (95-97)
1996 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship for The Piecework Series (94-95)
1994 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship for The Holding Stones Series (92-93)
'08-2014 Oberlin College Affiliate Scholar
EDUCATION
1974 MS Art Education University of Wisconsin-Madison Thesis “An Exploratory Study of Aesthetic Objects of Play:
A Criteria for Excellence in Design of Historical & Modern Playthings”
Masters Exhibition PALLI DAVENE DAVIS: OBJECTS OF PLAY
1970-71 Course work with Claude Horan University of Hawai’i-Honolulu
1970 BS Art Education (Major in Ceramics)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Baron Gallery Art Department, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
HOLDING STONES: the large work
2017 Artseen Gallery, Vermillion, OH
CAUGHT BY THE RIVER
Howson Gallery, Cleveland, OH
BOXED & TAGGED
2006 Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN
HOLDING STONES
2005 Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA), Oberlin, OH
QUARRY
2004 Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, OH
NEW WORK FROM THE HOLDING STONES SERIES
Archetype Gallery, Dayton, OH
OBJECT DRAWINGS
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
DROP LEAF TABLE AND PRELIMINARY TABLE DRAWINGS
2001 Southern Ohio Center for the Arts, Portsmouth, OH
HOLDING STONES PENDULUMS
1998 Firelands Association for the Arts (FAVA), Oberlin, OH
THE HOLDING STONES SERIES
1996 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
1991 Rike Gallery, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
1985 Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
TABLES: THE CARRICATURE AND COMMENTARY SETS
1983 Brittingham Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
TABLES: THE FABRIC SERIES AND THE TABLE LEGS
1982 By Design Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
WOODEN FABRICS & TABLE LEGS
1774 Masters Exhibition: PALLI DAVENE DAVIS: PLAY OBJECTS, Madison WI
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Instructional Materials Center
INVITATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: STRESS, HOPE & TRANSFORMATION, Cleveland. OH
2018 SOLID WOOD, Sandusky, OH
Sandusky Cultural Center
2013 FIGURES: 3 Artists Make Form, Yellow Springs, OH
2011 Ohio State University Urban Center, Columbus OH
OHIOCENTRIC (Juror’s Choice Award)
2005 Firelands Association Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH
QUARRY: 4 ARTISTS WORK THE CLEVELAND QUARRIES
2004 Schuster Center Wintergarden, Dayton, OH
IN STEP, IN TIME: LARGE SCALE WORK
2002 University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
Bradley Art Gallery, Northern Indiana University, Peoria, IN
EXTRAORDINARY THINGS: AN EXPLORATION OF
CONTEMPORARY ART THROUGH THE STUDY
OF MATERIAL CULTURE
2000 Herron Gallery, Herron School of Art /IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
H X W X D X 6
Nathan D. Rosen Museum Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
MAGIC AND RITUAL
2000 University of Hawaii Art Gallery, University of Hawai'i-Manoa, Honolulu, HI
7th INTERNATIONAL SHOEBOX SCULPTURE EXHIBITION
1999 Southwestern Center for Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX
ABSTRACT CRAFT
University of Bridgeport Art Gallery, Bridgeport, CT
EXTRAORDINARY THINGS: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS USE
THE MATERIAL CULTURE
1998 Northern Illinois University Gallery/Chicago, Chicago, IL
NATURAL RESOURCES
1994 Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
INTO WOOD
1993 Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH
MAINLY STICKS AND STONES
1991 Artmoves Gallery, Worthington, OH
PEBBLES CAST ON WATER: ARTISTS WORKING IN
THE JAPANESE TRADITION
1983 Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, WI
BEYOND FUNCTION
1981 Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
ARTISTS IN THE CRAFTS
1980 John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
WOOD WISCONSIN
1978 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
WISCONSIN DIRECTIONS II
1976 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
WISCONSIN DIRECTIONS I
1976 Colorado State University
CRAFTS OF THE AMERICAS, Colorado Springs CO
1976 Smithsonian Institution Renwick Gallery (South American venues)
CRAFTS OF THE AMERICAS
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2018 CAN 18 Triennial, Cleveland, OH
Collective Arts Network
2016 THE NEW NOW, Cleveland , OH
Artists Archives or the Western Reserve
2015 RE-EMERGENCE, Cleveland, OH
2014 THE F-WORD [FEMINISM, Chicago, IL
ARC Gallery
2006 CONVERGENCE 2006, Wooster, OH
College of Wooster Art Museum
2005 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland,OH
THE NEO SHOW
2003 Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, OH
WORKS ON PAPER
2000 University of Bridgeport Art Gallery, Bridgeport, CT
CONTEMPORARY VISIONS
Juror: Ursula von Rydingsvard (Jurors' choice award)
1998 1998 Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Juror: Stephen Fleischman, Dir. Madison Contemporary Art
Museum WI (Juror's choice award)
1984 Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
CHICAGO AND VICINITY EXHIBITION
1983 Charles A. Wustum Museum, Racine, WI
WISCONSIN WOOD
1982 University of Hawai’i Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
FIRST INTERNATIONAL SHOEBOX SCULPTURE EXHIBITION
1979 Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX
NATIONAL DRAWING AND SMALL SCULPTURE EXHIBITION
Juror: Duane Hanson
1975 Colorado State University, Colorado Springs, CO
CRAFTS OF THE AMERICAS
Renwick Gallery, Washington DC
CRAFTS OF THE AMERICAS (South American venues)
COLLECTIONS
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Honolulu Arts Center, Honolulu, HI
General Foods Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Credit Union National Association (CUNA), Madison, WI
Lincoln Insurance, Fort Wayne, IN
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
1993 Wright State University Art Gallery, Dayton, OH
VESSELS, QUILTS, & TABLES: PUSHING THE IDEA
1992 Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, OH
ARTISTS PLAYING AROUND: ART & PLAY, THEORY & OBJECT
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