Benjy Davies
Benjy Davies’ work has been included in over 100 exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the McNeese, Bradley, Parkside, Harper, and Northern National Exhibitions, and is represented in several public collections including The Amity Art Foundation, The Ohio State University and The City of Vaasa, Finland. He taught printmaking, drawing, and computer art at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, University of Rio Grande in Rio Grande, Ohio, and Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He was a MacDowell Fellow in 2015.
Davies currently lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he serves as the Associate Dean of Humanities at Pikes Peak Community College.
“My work is a running commentary on the absurdity, tenderness, fear and confusion that characterize my life with small children. I struggle with the difficulty and uncertainty of fatherhood, I rejoice and marvel at the awakening of a human spirit and I grieve for the turmoil and pain that comes from growing up and growing old. Much of the work is inspired by the unpredictable imagination and irrational fears of childhood, which serve as an allegory for the unpredictable imagination and irrational.” Benjy Davies