Biography
Benjy Davies’ work has been included in over 250 exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the McNeese, Bradley, Parkside, Harper, and Northern National Exhibitions, and is represented in several public collections including the Bob Evans Corporate Collection, the Ohio State University, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the city of Vaasa, Finland. He taught printmaking, drawing, and graphic design at Wesleyan College (GA), Ohio University (OH), the University of Rio Grande (OH), and Pikes Peak State College (CO). He was a MacDowell Fellow in 2015.
Davies currently lives in Nashville TN, where he serves as the Associate Dean of the Watkins College of Art at Belmont University.
Statement
My work is a running commentary on the absurdity, tenderness, fear and confusion that accompany life in the 21stcentury. I struggle with the difficulty and uncertainty of navigating post-modern existence and rejoice in the daily miracles of the natural world and the human heart. Much of my work is inspired by the unpredictable imagination and irrational fears of childhood, which serve as an allegory for the unpredictable imagination and irrational fears of adulthood.