Israel Davis Van Zante Visiting Artist Lecture
What: Israel Davis Van Zante Visiting Artist Lecture
When: Thurs, Apr 10, 2025 / 7pm
Where: South Dakota Art Museum Auditorium (lower level)
When: Thurs, Apr 10, 2025 / 7pm
Where: South Dakota Art Museum Auditorium (lower level)
Artist Bio:
Israel “Izzy” Davis is an artist whose work is concerned with dreams, dreaming, wanderlust, relationships, and particulars. It is an investigation of the symbols, people, and objects that affect perceptions, the subconscious, and life experience. A study of metaphor through authenticity and fantasy that is driven by the physicality of materials and the intersection of two and three-dimensional formats. Davis seeks to play between the boundaries of object and image.
Israel “Izzy” Davis is an artist whose work is concerned with dreams, dreaming, wanderlust, relationships, and particulars. It is an investigation of the symbols, people, and objects that affect perceptions, the subconscious, and life experience. A study of metaphor through authenticity and fantasy that is driven by the physicality of materials and the intersection of two and three-dimensional formats. Davis seeks to play between the boundaries of object and image.
Izzy is a professor and head of ceramics at Central Michigan University. He has taught over 50 workshops on his techniques for screen-printing on clay and has been included in over 100 exhibitions. He produces primarily functional and non-functional ceramic works ranging in content from personal narratives, observations, and just plain fun.
Image courtesy of the artist.
