TURNER G. DAVIS
4204 North 19th Place
Phoenix, Arizona 85016
602-541-9539
Websites:http://turnergdavis.com
EDUCATION
MFA 1996 Painting /Drawing Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland (teaching fellowship painting/drawing)
BFA 1993 Painting/Drawing University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2014 - Present
Professor Arizona State University
Painting, Drawing, Illustration, Storyboarding and Narrative Sequencing, Drawing as Seeing and Thinking, Illustration For Non Art Majors
2017 to Present
Instructor at Shemer Art Center, Phoenix, AZ
Drawing Fundamentals
2015 to 2018
Adjunct faculty Phoenix College
Drawing I and II
2011 - 2015
Instructor- The Drawing Studio Tucson, AZ Drawing Fundamentals One, Drawing
Teen Workshop - classes in Phoenix in collaboation with The Drawing Studio
Fundamentals Two, Drawing With Color, Color Theory, Painting, and Drawing
1997 - 2015
Gallery Director, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona. \
Responsibilities include: public relations (lectures,educational workshops,
brochure design, and press), art historical research and writing, major curatorial
and exhibition projects, translations, organizing inventory, installation, and art
restoration.
2007 - 2013
Instructor Desert View Learning Center, Phoenix, Arizona
2011
Instructor Rancho Linda Vista
Summer Art Program, Oracle, Arizona
1994 – 1996
Teaching Assistant Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD
taught painting and drawing classes under the auspices of Professor Barbara Marcus and
Professor Timothy App
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
“Passages” Eye Lounge Artist Collective,Phoenix, AZ
2015
“Works on Paper” Eye Lounge Artist Collective,
Residency Exhibition Rancho Linda Vista Gallery Oracle, AZ
"The City" Willo North Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
"Stone Soup" Eye Lounge Artost Collective
2014
“Kintsukouri”- book release exhibition, Eye Lounge Artist Collective
"Secrets and Spectacles II" Eye Lounge Artist Cooperative, Phoenix, Arizona
"Secrets and Spectacles" Western Arizona College Art Gallery, Yuma, Arizona,
2008
“Turner G. Davis- Fantastic Worlds”, University of Arizona Museum of Art
2004
“Recent Developments”, Rancho Linda Vista,Oracle, Arizona
1997
“Recent Paintings”, Rancho Linda Vista, Oracle,Arizona
1994
“Hospital Drawings and Sculpture”, Rancho Linda Vista, Oracle, Arizona
1990
“Recuerdos de Espana”, The Sixth Street Congress Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
”Drawings, Paintings, and Prints”, 830 Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
“James G. Davis and Turner G. Davis” Studio 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
“Chaos Theory” Legend City Studios, Phoenix AZ
“Prep” Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ
2016
“Snow” Coe House, Phoenix, AZ
“Chaos Theory” Legend City Studios, Phoenix,AZ
2015
“Tiny Works” (9) The Gallery, Phoenix AZ Spring 2015
“Eye Lounge Collaborative Exhibition” Shemer Art Center, Phoenix, AZ
2014
“Figurative” Slow Art Productions, New York City, NY Sep 2014
2013
“Family Portraits”, Eye Lounge Artists Cooperative, Phoenix, Arizona, December 2013
“Works on Paper”, Arnold Nelson/Turner G. Davis, Rancho Linda Vista,
Oracle,AZ
“Contemporary Forum”, Phoenix Art Museuem,
2012
“Lineage”, Father and Son Exhibition, Prescott College Gallery, Prescott, Arizon Phoenix, Arizona, February 2012
2011
“Turner G. Davis/ James G. Davis, Recent Work”, Studio 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada,
2008
“Turner G. Davis/ James G. Davis, Recent Work”, Studio 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada
“Small Works Invitational”, Davis/Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
2007
“Turner G. Davis/ James G. Davis, Continuing Narratives”, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale,Arizona,=
2005
“Wild at Heart”, Liz Hernandez Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, Turner G. Davis/ Arnold Nelson, Adja Gallery, Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada
2004
Group Show, Gallery Gora, Montreal, Quebec,Canada
“Parallel Worlds”, Liz Hernandez Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
2000-2003
Gallery Artists (4 separate shows), Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
“Riva Yares Gallery 2000 - 35th Anniversary Exhibition”, Riva Yares Gallery,Scottsdale, Arizona and Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999
Group Show, Peterson/Hall Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
“Small Works Invitational”, Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
1998
“Old and New”, Arlene Lewallen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1996
Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition (SITE), Juried Show, Emory Gallery,
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.
1995
“Hoffberger Show II”, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Summer MFA Show, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Resurgham Gallery Annual Juried Exhibition, Resurgham Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
1994
“Language Barrier”, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
PUBLISHED BOOKS
2014
“Kintsukouri” Inkwell Publications
2013
“Josephine- The Girl Who Lives on the Moon” Inkwell Productions
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2018
Teen Workshop (Ink) - Phoenix Art Museum
2017
College Night Workshop (Samurai) - Phoenix Art Museum
2016
Children’s Workshop - Phoenix Art Museum
Teen Workshop (Comics) - Phoenix Art Museum
2015
Residency and Grant from Rancho Linda Vista Artist Community Oracle, AZ
2012
Spirit of the Senses, Phoenix, Arizona, 2015 Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
2010
Prescott College Museum of Art, Prescott, Arizona
2008-09
Arizona State University Honors College, Downtown Campus, Phoenix, Arizona
Arizona State University Honors College, Downtown Campus, Phoenix, Arizona
2005
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Drawing Workshop and Lecture, Tucson, AZ
2001
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
2000
University of Missouri Art Gallery, Springfield, Missouri
1999
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Missouri
TRAVEL/FOREIGN LANGUAGES SPOKEN
Fluent in Spanish. Travel experiences include summers in Mexico, Canada, Germany, Spain, and Mallorca, England, France, Holland, Morocco, Egypt. Five Summers abroad (Guadalajara, San Miguel, Mexico through the University of Arizona, Madrid, Spain, Berlin, Germany living in the studio of artists Edward and Nancy Kienholz)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Rancho Linda Vista Community for the Arts, Oracle, Arizona
Arizona Artists Guild Five(15) Artist Cooperative
Eye Lounge Artist Cooperative, Phoenix, Arizona
CINEMA
“Jolene” released Fall 2007. Next Turn Productions. Directed by Dan Ireland, cast including Dermot Mulroney, Chazz Palminteri, Jessica Chastain, Theresa Russell, Francis Fisher, Michael Vartan. Created all art, tattoo designs, including consultations and work on set designs.
Additionally:
Assistant to Grace Hartigan while in graduate school at the Maryland Institute of Art 1994-96
Assistant to Roberto Matta the winter the artist spent in Scottsdale, Arizona 1999
Assistant to James G. Davis in the Berlin, Germany studio of Edward and Nancy Kienholz.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016
Nicole Royce “Profile” Arizona Foothills Magazine August\
2014
Jenna Duncan, “The Art of Turner G. Davis”, Spring
2011
Elissa Barnard, “Father, Son Trace Lineage” (Lineage II), Nova Scotia News-The Chronicle Herald, September 29, 2011
2009
Elissa Barnard, “Not the Straight Story”, Nova Scotia News-The Chronicle Herald, October 6, 2009
2008
Kathleen Allen, “The Gallery”, Arizona Daily Star, March 21, 2008
Margaret Regan, Turner G. Davis, “Incandescent Fairy Tales”, Tucson, Weekly, March 6-12, 2008
Amy Abrams, “Like Father, Like Son”, Desert Living Magazine, February 2008
2007
Elissa Barnard, “Like Father, Like Son”, Nova Scotia News-The Chronicle Herald, October 14, 2007
Margaret Regan, “Little Art”, Tucson Weekly, July 28-August 4, 2007
Dolores Tropiano “Art in the Family, Father/Son Share Space in Gallery Art Exhibit”, The Scottsdale Republic, February 17, 2007
2006
Patti Verbanas, Art and Antiques, September 2006
2004
Parallel Worlds, exhibition announcement with photograph, Tucson Citizen, October 14, 2004