Contributing Artists

Tavin Davis

Exhibition Statement as Preserved in the INCUBATOR Archives:

Tavin Davis was born in Billings, Montana, and holds BFA in Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic

Design from Montana State University. He is currently earning an MFA in Painting here at the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

 

Davis is a landscape painter of sorts, a pattern painter of sorts, or perhaps some amalgamation

of the two. Above all, he’s an observer. Davis spends much of his time tuning into his

surroundings, where what peaks his interest most is the persistence of patterns. Social

patterns, behavioral patterns, seasonal patterns, and celestial patterns are all often subjects he

negotiates in his paintings. He uses painting as a place to exercise agency within these large repetitious structures speaking to an odd experience of living with a world ruled by them.
Davis says of his work, “I get to make interpretations and interventions inside of very small images of very large things.”