My oil and cold wax painting Grant Park Lollapalooza was accepted into this year’s exhibition at the Buchanan Center for Arts in Monmouth, Illinois
Linda Lytle Memorial Award
Another award that was given at Galesburg Community Arts Center’s, Members and Friends 2021 "Hard Hat" Juried Exhibition was the Linda Lytle Memorial Award in honor of long time friend of the Civic Arts Center, Linda Lytle. The winning artwork is chosen by her husband Tom Lytle and daughter Laura Lytle.
LJD at First Free Chicago-Fall 2021
(If you are a Facebook user, please use the following links to see the details of this exhibit. My special thanks go to Dan Addington of Addington Gallery http://danaddington.com , who curated the show.)
Here is the direct link to the new album featuring the artwork currently on view in the church sanctuary, graciously on loan from artist Larry J Davis. This is the 9th show in the Sanctuary Series which began in the Advent season of 2016. Hard to believe it's been 5 years since we started this exhibition series!
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Becoming Free added 25 new photos to the album: First Free Sanctuary Series (9) Larry J. Davis, Fall 2021.
Golden Light: Summer of New Beginnings
BETTENDORF — The painting “Lilies and Lotus at Lock 13” by Larry Jon Davis will anchor the “Golden Light: Summer of New Beginnings” exhibition at Beréskin Gallery & Art Academy this month.
A native of Clinton, Davis grew up along the Mississippi River and has vivid memories of lilies and lotus at Lock and Dam 13 near Fulton, said Beréskin Gallery in a press release last week.
Davis would walk out to the causeway from the Iowa side to the dam or canoe from the Illinois side into the water lilies, the gallery said. “At sunset, there are colors that don’t show up any other time of day,” he said.
The 5-foot-by-5-foot “Lilies and Lotus at Lock 13,” is striking, awash in vibrant colors of pink, orange, yellow, violets and blues, with a sunset reflected on the water, the gallery said.
Davis is now a retired art professor with a studio in Knoxville, Illinois.
The Golden Light exhibit includes work by nine other artists: Pat Bereskin, Rose Moore, Pat Halverson, Dean Kuegler, Debora Stewart, Hans Olson, Brad Bisbey, Steve Sinner and Troy Swangstu.
The artists and their works have received wide acclaim and are well-known to patrons of the gallery, said Bereskin, owner of Beréskin Gallery & Art Academy. The pieces from the 10 artists in the exhibition reflect expressions of hope and light, she said.
The exhibit continues through Aug. 26 at 2967 State St. in Bettendorf.
Read MoreSunset Shaman
During the last few months, Sunset Shaman, a 20” x 20” x 1.5” painting in oil and cold wax on canvas, has been accepted into both the 2019 64 Arts National Juried Exhiition, and the 2020 Galex 54 National Juried Exhibition.
The setting for this imaginary event is the bluffs at Mississippi Palisades State Park near Savanah, Illinois. As a youngster I was intrigued by the stories about the Meskwaki people who inhabited the region until just over a century before my time. I would love to believe that Black or Hawk or other chiefs would have watched the sun set over the Misi-ziibi or Great River as it was known by the native population.
2019 Members and Friends award
The painting, Prairie Shadows, won the Painting Award at last evening’s reception for Galesburg Civic Arts Center’s 2019 Members and Friends Exhibition.
Members and Friends 2018 award
Still Life with Bottles, a 16”x16” work in oil and cold wax on cradled panel, received the Painting Award in the Members and Friends 2018 exhibition at the Galesburg Civic Art Center.
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2018 Cooperstown Art Assoc. National Show
I received notice that Torso 1, a painting in oil and cold wax on panel, was one of 130 works out of a field of 496 selected for the 83rd Annual CAA National Exhibition. This is the second time I have been fortunate enough to have work in this venerable show.
Illinois at 200
Friendly Conversation, a painting in oil and cold wax, was among works by 44 Illinois artists selected from a field of about 350 entries for the Illinois at 200 exhibition to be held at Giertz Gallery at Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois. Dates for the show are June 18 - August 8. Artists Reception: Thursday, June 21, 5:30–7:30 p.m.; opening remarks by Lisa Costello, Director, Giertz Gallery and Kelly White, Director, 40 North: Champaign County Arts Council;
WCI Arts Center in Macomb, IL
2017 ended with a solo exhibition in response to the kind invitation from Jan and Dean Rockwell
Buchanan Center for the Arts Presents:
The year 2017 kicked off with an exhibition of Davis work at this fine facility in Monmouth, IL
"All About Color - Abstractions in Oil and Wax"
November, 2016 saw a show of the artist's works at Beréskin Gallery in Davenport, Iowa. The exhibition was combined with a one day workshop on oil and cold wax technique. Gallery owner, Pat Beréskin, along with the other fine artists in the gallery stable went out of their way to make the event a success.
GCAC 2015 "Members & Friends"
This oil entitled “Parish Church” was given a Juror's Choice Award
Galex50 exhibition: 1st Place Blick Purchase Award at GCAC, Galesburg, IL
From the March, 2016, Galex50 reception, here are to attendees viewing the oil and wax painting, MODEL RESTING, which was awarded the $1000 first prize Blick Purchase Award.
2015 “Works by Larry Jon Davis” at Sandburg Community College
A thanks to Prof. Lisa Walker for ushering in the 2015 gallery season by featuring this show of my paintings. Among those in attendance at the opening reception were the Executive Director of the Galesburg Civic Art Center, Tuesday Çetin and her husband Savas Çetin.
My wife Jacquie and son Devin were also there for the reception.
Iowa Hall Gallery - Kirkwood Community College
Here are 2 of the 9 works purchased by the college during this exbibition in October of 2014. I am more than a little tardy in using this venue to thank both Greta Songe and Arbe Baresis from the Kirkwood art faculty for making this wonderful experience possible.
The Canson Excellence in Arts Award
The oil on canvas, Abstract Seated Figure, has been chosen for the Canson Excellence in Arts Award at the 79th Annual National Juried Art Exhibition on display until August 15 at the Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, New York.
Watercolor USA 2014
On June 6, Larry and Jacquie Davis attended the reception for Watercolor USA 2014, at the Springfield Art Museum in Springfield, Missouri. Larry’s painting Abstract Presence was one of 59 selected from the 549 works submitted. This national competition has been held since 1964. Earlier Abstract Presence had also won an award at last year’s Illinois State Fair.
Stewart & Davis Exhibition at River Arts Center, Clinton, Iowa
Clinton natives set to showcase art at center
LJD with Carrie Donaire, Clinton’s Director, Convention & Visitors Bureau. Both Carrie and Larry are former Student Body Presidents of Clinton High School, only one is much older if not wiser. You can guess who is the older one.
Carrie is the daughter of friend and fellow high school classmate, Steven Mayer and his wife Kit.
(transcribed from the Clinton Herald, Clinton, Iowa, March 8, 2014)
AN ABSTRACT LOOK
Clinton natives set to showcase art at center .
BY SAMANTHA PIDDE
Herald Staff Writer
CLINTON —— For Artists Debora Stewart, of Clinton, and Larry Davis, of Knoxville, I11., abstract paintings are their preferred medium for showing the world around them. “I can draw very realistically,” Debora said. “I just don’t want to.”
Growing up in Clinton, Debora used to sit with her mother at the diningroom table and draw. Throughout the years,she drew a lot of portraits, especially the Beatles when she was young. Eventually, she became fascinated with abstract art and was drawn to the style.
Debora still lives in Clinton with her husband, Doug. Until recently, she worked as a ‘counselor and art teacher in the Camanche school system. Her
art can be viewed at www.deboralstewart.com
Just like Debora, Larry grew up in Clinton with a love and talent for art. Before moving away from Clinton to Florida in 1985, he taught art at
Clinton High School and Clinton Community College. Larry and his wife, Jacquelyn, also ran a gallery and frame shop in Clinton at one time. ‘
“It’s fun to come back to Clinton after all these years,” Larry said. His art can be viewed at www.larryjdavis.com.
Larry and Debora’s work will hang together at the River Arts Center, 229 Fifth Ave. South, until April 27. A reception for the two artists will be
held from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the gallery. The two friends are excited to be in a show together.
Both artists said people seem to think abstract art is easier than it really is. Larry said that “breaking up that eternal rectangle” can be difficult.
While he has spent much of his career realistically representing objects, such as an apple, he has found he enjoys an abstract take on it much more.
“It’s equally fun to explore just the colors, textures, shapes that all organic things share,” Davis said.
Both agree that some planning does go into their works, even if those plans may change. Larry considers exactly what .colors to use and how they are affected by other colors placed by them. He will often use opposite or complementary colors in his work to make them pop.
“Sometimes a good piece is the result of 10 pieces before it that didn’t work very well,” Debora said. She often bases her work on real objects or
vacations she has taken. Some of her pieces are even influenced by previous work. “I think even the things that I drew realistically at one time, some of those
same lines and shapes come through in
abstract,” Debora said.
(Photographs courtesy of Patricia Bird patriciabirdphotography.com)
2013 Illinois State Fair Award
An acrylic and charcoal work entitled Abstract Presence has been given second prize for Drawing and Graphics in the Professional Art Exhibits of the recently completed 2013 Illinois State Fair.
Acrylic and charcoal on paper