Bio
Originally from Minnesota, Glenn Herbert Davis is an inter/transdisciplinary maker currently living in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His work is primarily focused on issues of the individual human body and the (contrived) systems to which it is subject; with ongoing interests in: the perversion of knowledge through its descent and its display; physical labor / craft as locus of both skill and strife; the institution; function and utility; valuation; and (the) "other". Davis explores his topics through highly-divergent media -- currently large-scale installations interweaving wooden buildings, furniture and functional implements with performance, (actions, sound, and spoken word), still and moving imagery, specialty books, sediments, and bric-a-brac.
Davis was Assistant Professor of Art and Gallery Director at the University of Tulsa; taught at Ohio University and Iowa State University; and was Lead Preparator and Operations Manager of Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis. He was the recipient of an Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition Project Grant in 2010, an Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition Fellowship in both 2010 and 2006, a Jerome Foundation Artist Grant in 1998, and a Jerome Installation Art Commission in 1996. He works and resides in a former post office in West Tulsa with his gal, her gal, and four dogs fighting four cats.
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University of the South, Dec. 2010