Current Artist
Michael K Davis
May 2nd - June 5th, 2024
Recent works
“Manitoba Cycle II: Existing in the Modern World at the Edge of Incredible Discovery and Catastrophic Loss”
Michael Davis is a practicing architect, occasional painter, and sometime traveler.
Dusk
The sky’s failing light
On the lakes of Manitoba
Seen from twenty thousand feet
The landscape
Flat and gray
The water, silver light.
These paintings were inspired by a flight detour. A storm forcing the plane to northern Manitoba en route to New York. The sun had set, the landscape became black. From thirty thousand feet the residual light in the sky reflected on the surface the hundred thousand lakes of Manitoba.
Handwritten notes on paper taken in a rush of inspiration and awe at the beauty of a world seen in a relatively new way. Years later, they manifest on wooden panels in acrylic gesso and silver leaf, an attempt to capture the magic of that fleeting moment.