Birth Name:

Nancy Davidson (artist)

Female

Birth Date:

Wed, Nov 03, 1943

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Age:

81

Zodiac Sign:

Scorpio

Astrology Data:

Sun

10°

Sco

24'

About Nancy Davidson (artist)

Nancy Davidson is an American artist best known for large-scale inflatable sculptures regarded as hyper-feminized abstractions of the human female form. Bulbous and flesh-like, the sculptures resemble buttocks and breasts and employ erotic cultural signifiers in their shape and decoration. Davidson's work spans art media but centers around sculpture. It is largely post-minimal in character and described by commentators as providing a feminist counterpoint to the male-dominated, minimalist sculpture of the 1960s, as well as to cultural tropes involving bodies that the works themselves invoke. Of particular note are Davidson's use of humor and a sense of absurdity to seemingly both celebrate and subvert these tropes, inviting their investigation but without the seriousness and moralism that often accompany critical works. Sculpture Magazine critic Robert Raczka wrote that "The confectionary color and oversize scale" of Davidson's sculpture creates a "playfully upbeat mood that allows feminist and gender issues to rise to the surface at irregular intervals, without didacticism." The New Art Examiner's Susan Canning described it as establishing "a context where all can revel in the transgressive and liberating power of the grotesque."

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Nancy Davidson official website

• "Unruly Forms: A Conversation with Nancy Davidson," Sculpture, 2021

• Archives of American Art

• Davidson at the Ulrich Museum of Art

• Nancy Davidson, Guggenheim Fellowship page

• Davidson artist page at Creative Capital

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Categories related to Nancy Davidson (artist): Living people, 20th-century American women artists, 21st-century American women artists, November 3 births, 20th-century American artists, American sculptors, 21st-century American artists, School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni, University of Illinois at Chicago alumni, 1943 births, Northeastern Illinois University alumni, Women sculptors

Photo attribution: Janeblanch, Photograph of my work taken in 1997