Glen C. Davies
"Museum of Mystery"
May 18-27, 2007
Glen Davies was born in 1950 in Chicago. He was attending the School of the Art Institute there during the late 1960’s when the intrigue of the great museums and the influence of Chicago’s homegrown pop genre “imagism” combined to set the stage for his recurring art themes of spiritual conflict, grotesque figural fantasies and the journey toward enlightenment. After fulfilling a childhood dream of traveling with the circus, Davies worked for a short time as a billboard artist and sign painter, eventually opening a mural painting business. After completing a BFA at Drake University in 1978 and an MFA in painting from the University of Illinois in 1981, Davies has divided his time between studio pursuits and self-employment. These ventures include circus/carnival showpainting, sideshow banner artist, professional muralist, and educator. His works reside in many public and private collections including Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Georgia Museum of Art, and the Roger Brown Study Collection of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. |
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