Stacey Davidson: Make Up
March 2013
’MASS MoCA,’ 2, 2011, digital photograph
About the Exhibition
In her work Stacey Davidson explores the genre of portraiture in painting and sculpture, using each method of figural representation to inform the other. Trained as a painter, she decided to pursue sculpture in order to make three-dimensional doll forms that would serve as subjects. From the wigs to the costumes, her cast of characters is meticulously handcrafted. In Davidson’s paintings each doll takes on a life of its own, each imbued with a very specific personality. Simultaneously lifelike and artificial, the dolls and their painted portraits reflect the complexity of human emotion. Davidson is a professor of painting at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC and she is represented by Marlborough Gallery in New York.
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