Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents Leigh Davis
Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents Leigh Davis
The Department of Art Presents Leigh Davis!
Bio: As an artist, educator and cultural organizer, I create interdisciplinary projects to explore themes of grief, memory, and storytelling. Delving into how these shared human experiences shape our understanding of identity, over the past decade I have archived end-of-life experiences, shaping them into a diverse body of work spanning lecture-performances, video essays, installations, and sculptures which aim to illuminate the emotional complexities of grief and the construction of beliefs regarding human consciousness.
My project Inquiry into the ELE (2016-2019) featured at BRIC Contemporary Art (Brooklyn) and Vox Populi (Philadelphia). My site-specific audio installation, Vigil (2020), and video installation, Feeling Tones (2023), showcased at Green-Wood Cemetery (Brooklyn). I have exhibited my work nationally/internationally including Open Source Gallery (Brooklyn), EFA Project Space (NY), Spectral Lines (Queens), Oliver Art Center (Oakland), and the Kreeger Museum (DC). I have created performances for Dixon Place (NY) and Sound Scene at the Hirshhorn Museum (DC). A native of Pittsburgh, I currently serve as a Part-Time Associate Professor at Parsons the New School for Design, and divide my time between Brooklyn, NY, and Washington, DC.