Biography & Artist Statement
- biography
Brenton Davis is a up and coming artist and photographer who is pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education at Kennesaw State University.
As a child, Brenton grew up in a small rural town, Abbeville, Georgia. He excelled in arts throughout middle and high school, entering art contests locally and at the state level with the Georgia National Fair, Georgia Farm Bureau & Georgia Department of Agriculture.
After high school, Davis attended Middle Georgia College. There he continued his passion for the arts entering in annual student exhibitions and receiving his Associates in Arts Degree.
Currently, Mr. Davis volunteers and utilizes his skills, knowledge and expertise of the arts on the KSU campus with his involvement in the Kennesaw Activities Board, National Art Education Association and off campus at the Boys and Girls Club in Marietta, Georgia. At that educational facility, he helps children better conceptualize and formulate some of the basic elements and principles of design including, line, shape and form in drawing and painting and the different levels and opportunities art has to offer youth who desire to pursue careers in it.
His personal work involves dramatic movement which can be viewed throughout his drawings, paintings, photography and graphic work. Davis enjoys letting his artwork exemplify a story in his life or someone else's life in which he can closely relate to. In addition, he enjoys letting his work he produces speak up and make social impacts.
- Artist Statement
My artwork takes a critical view of social and cultural issues. In my work, I try to formulate and tell dramatic stories that I feel will help motivate and inspire positivity. Having engaged subjects as diverse as the pro's of safe sex, southern gospel and hip hop music, my work reproduces familiar visual signs, arranging them into creative conceptual thinking.
Often times these themes are combined into installations that feature objects drawn, photographed or painted with earth tone colors to be relaxing to the eye. In addition, I use allot of bold and grained text for some of my work. The texts provides edge and clues to the content and understanding of the work.
While I use a variety of materials and processes in each project my style is consistent. Although there may not always be material similarities between the different projects, they are linked by recurring formal concerns and through subject matter. The subject matter of each body of work establishes the materials and the forms of the work.
Each project often consists of multiple works, often in a range of different media, grouped around specific themes and meanings. During my research and production, new areas of interest arise and lead to new ideas to produce new photography, drawings, paintings and 3-D work.
