Donald Davidson
Painter
Summer Song (1995)
65" x 60", acrylic on canvas
Donald Davidson is a native Washingtonian who has mined the cultural milieu of his youth to infuse his art with a very individual passion for life: painting the un-passive muse. An unabashed figurative expressionist in a city that revels in its color school doctrines, his work depicts primal rituals of both celebration and struggle--love against hate. In a 1982 review, Washington Post critic Paul Richard said, "Although his stories jolt, his well-tuned colors soothe."
Dance, drama and music inevitably influence Davidson's canvases. At 14, he worked as a stagehand, later going on to employment as a dance accompanist. Early in his painting career, he also was engaged as the drummer in the seminal Washington performance art troupe, Hungry Fetus.
A recipient of two fellowships from the D.C. Commission on the Arts (1984 & 1988), Davidson was given a mini-retrospective at DCAC in 1995. Past exhibitions include ARTSWATCH in Louisville, KY (solo show), Weekend Gallery in Berlin ("Eight Painters from Washington") and a Smithsonian Institution/USIA show sent to India ("Recent American Works on Paper", 1985-1987.) Currently at work on a sculpture series based on his involvement with the mytho-poetic men's movement, Donald Davidson's view on art was the cover/feature interview for the premiere issue of Articulate magazine (June, 1995).
A selection of Donald Davidson's works
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