Maggie Davis

Athens, GA

After graduate school, I kept painting, asking questions, experimenting, searching, with moderate success along the way. My work is not consistent. I am a restless artist. My painting practice does not accommodate the art market.

In 2009, I found a new PhD program designed for MFA grads in philosophy and theory of art. I spent the following two years travelling to New York and Europe for coursework and exposure to scholars from European universities. It was the light that awakened my thinking to the practice of making art and how it connects to being human. I found my tribe: philosophers who cared about art, wrote about it, theorized about it, and struggled with where it fit into being human. What does it mean to be an artist? How does my humanness live in my work? What does my visual language contribute to the authenticity of painting? Questions with no answers, just thinking. Reading philosophy was the missing link between who I was, how I felt, and what I wanted to do as an artist.

Artist Website

www.magggiedavisart.com