Dave R. Davison Originally from the tiny town of Clovis on the high plains of Eastern New Mexico, Dave R. Davison grew up in an Air Force family. A graduate of Clover Park High School, Dave worked for a time in warehouses, industrial facilities and art galleries. He returned to his studies at University of Washington where he earned degrees in International Studies, Comparative Religion and Art History. In addition to writing in several genres, Dave is a painter, sculptor, ceramicist and graphic designer. He is often seen walking his dog on Tacoma streets, especially on wet evenings.
5 June 2013
For most of us, the steamroller evokes images of steamy piles of dark asphalt flattened into long slabs of road surface. For a growing segment of the citizenry of our City of Destiny, however, the steamroller is now also viewed as a utensil (albeit a big one) in the printmaker’s tool chest: a huge, heavy press that can…
Read More22 May 2013
At least once a year, each of the local colleges with an art department worth its salt offers the viewing public the opportunity to come and partake of the visual feast of objects and images produced by the students enrolled in said department. Such an annual exhibit is the equivalent of a music recital for visual artists.…
Read More1 May 2013
The big wheel of time keeps on turning and in the cycle of its churning a new group of seniors from the University of Puget Sound’s art department have emerged to set their stuff beneath the gallery lights. The “UPS 2013 Senior Show” is currently on display at the Kittredge Gallery and will be available for viewing…
Read More24 April 2013
Well Tacoma, maybe we just can't have nice things...
Earlier this month, vandals toppled one of the 20 bronze and Plexiglas pillars that comprise the fountain-sculpture called "Water Forest" that graces the plaza between the Thea Foss Waterway and the entry to the Museum of Glass (MOG). So ends a good run of four…
Read More3 April 2013
The University Galley at Pacific Lutheran University is currently hosting a two-person show under the cumbersome moniker of “Each Form Overflows its Present.” The show consists of paintings by Elise Richman and Cynthia Camlin. Both artists are interested in the environmental state of flux that is taking place as a result…
Read More27 March 2013
The University Galley at Pacific Lutheran University is currently hosting a two-person show under the cumbersome moniker of “Each Form Overflows its Present.” The show consists of paintings by Elise Richman and Cynthia Camlin. Both artists are interested in the environmental state of flux that is taking place as a result…
Read More6 March 2013
Tacoma Opera is set to finish its 2012-13 season in grand style with a production of “La Traviata,” Giuseppe Verdi’s grand masterpiece that remains one of the most performed operas worldwide despite the fact that it is now more than 150 years old.
Fans of the PBS series “Downton Abby” will find themselves…
Read More23 January 2013
Ever since the Renaissance, when European civilization rediscovered the art and literature of Greek and Roman classical antiquity, artists have had a wonderful storehouse of stories and images from Greek mythology to draw upon as inspiration for their works.
The degree to which classical mythology remains a cultural…
Read More19 December 2012
Tacoma’s B2 Gallery is currently hosting a show of work with contributions from each of the 40 artists that have been nominated to receive the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation’s Foundation of Art Award. The organization has given the award for the last five years in order to recognize the essential role that art and…
Read More5 December 2012
Local painter Robert Koch is something of an artistic Rip Van Winkle. From childhood through college he was steeped in the making of art. Eventually, however, his inner artist fell into a slumber as Koch became involved in the raising of a family and the forging of a career as a faculty member of Pierce College where he teaches…
Read More14 November 2012
The Gallery at Tacoma Community College is currently hosting a show of works by Marit Berg, Melinda Cox and Frank Dippolito – all members of the TCC art faculty (or retired faculty in Dippolito’s case). The three were given free reign to do what they wanted and the result is a display of versatility. Each of the artists…
Read More31 October 2012
Local singer-songwriter John Leonard has been honing his craft for a good, long-time now. He has been strumming his guitar and crooning his lyrics for going on four decades. Leonard also happens to be a veteran of the United States military, having served 10 years in the Air Force as well as a stint in the Army National Guard.…
Read More17 October 2012
It all began in a flash of inspiration, an image in the mind’s eye: Tacoma filmmaker Joseph Kephart imagined a scene from a 1940s-era detective movie. He saw the point in the story line in which the suspects of a murder are gathered to have their alibis questioned by the intrepid detective. Instead of speaking their lines,…
Read More3 October 2012
Wayfarers and passersby along the 1100 block of Tacoma’s Broadway might chance to meet a pair of stony characters – one short and stout, the other tall and lean. They have been there on the sidewalk since 1993: two big chunks of basalt stone that have been dubbed “Brain and Vertical Stone.”
The sculpture is…
Read More26 September 2012
The Gallery at Tacoma Community College is currently hosting its “10th Annual Juried Local Art Exhibition.” Jurors Melinda Cox and Anthony Culanag (both members of the TCC art faculty) selected from works submitted by artists resident in Western Washington (mostly Tacoma, Olympia and Seattle). The result is a lavish display…
Read More6 September 2012
The Tacoma Arts Commission is the main agency via which public art flows into our municipal space. The commission mentors, midwifes and maintains the stock of city-owned art treasures. Our beloved arts commission, however, is not the only game in town. Works of public art also come to us through other entities, agencies and…
Read More30 August 2012
If every cloud does indeed have a silver lining then the silver lining of the Great Recession, in whose throes we find ourselves tossed, is that the increase in vacancies of retail properties has given rise to the phenomenon of the pop-up. Pop-ups – often art galleries, boutiques and craft shops – are retail operations…
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