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Isobel was nurtured in childhood by her experiences kicking around in the mountains, island farms and briny shores of the Pacific Northwest. She spent many hours in her parents ornamental garden, pondering big questions, creating illustrated stories, writing poetry, and making up games. In her 20’s, a stint working on a naturalist ship and research vessel on the high seas introduced her to birds, numerous creatures, endless shorelines, glaciers and icebergs. She was engaged by the ever-changing play of light on the water. This natural world has inspired her work and provides a framework for her discussion of things spiritual, philosophical and sociopolitical. Nature is important to her as metaphor, essential life-support, familiar comfort and creative power.
Isobel received her B.A. in Fine Art at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois while also taking terms at Rhode Island School of Design and the San Francisco Art Institute. In NYC she continued her art education at the School of Visual Art, and Hunter College. During this period she created mixed media artworks and computer manipulated video pieces. She worked with the photography collection of the New York City Art Commission as an investigative art historian. Her education continued by long walks and interactions with people with threads to the world through-out NYC and subsequent world travels including living in Rome and Berlin. Isobel's interactive installations feature tactile objects made from encaustic wax and fiber that include text and photo imagery. Her installation projects demonstrate her strong interest in social ecology, connecting viewer’s lives to sustainability issues through engagement. Awards, Exhibitions and Events: Seattle Office of Arts and Culture Selected by Seattle Department of Transportation as one of four finalists for the Burke-Gilman Trial Missing Link art project. Family December - February 2023-2024 group show at Windermere Mt Baker Jean Smith Podcast “The Way Home” featured Isobel Davis and her book "My Sword is a Dove" https://lnkd.in/gidtpgPS My Sword is a Dove, the workshop Miro board art and mindset workshop, October 2023 My Sword is a Dove, the book, August 2023, paper back and eBook https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9S8B4QG Cyanotypes on Exhibit at San Juan Island Crepe Shop summer 2022 Submergence September 2017 installation at Inscape Gallery, with Video projection and an oyster shell labyrinth with resin pearls. Two Ponies Press's "Original Lines Podcast" features an interview with Isobel Davis. https://twoponiespress.com/podcast/original-lines-episode-1-art-food-mushroom-logs-artist-isobel-davis/ Seattle Office of Arts and Culture Public Artist Roster Selected to be on the roster for Public Art Projects under the 1% for the arts program, from July 2017. Rainier Beach Arts and Music Festival (BAAMfest) July 2017 Created a sprouted living temporary labyrinth using compost socks with the Rainier Valley Food Bank to reflect on what it takes to feed and be fed. Public Art Boot Camp 2017: selected to participate in the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture’s Boot Camp for public artists. Sweet Spot in the Ecotone new mixed media cyanotypes included in the exhibit of framed works of Isobel Davis January - May 2017, Windermere, Mt. Baker Transience, L.A. Photo Curator An International themed competition curated by Adam Finkelston, Posted October 4, 2016, page 15. http://www.laphotocurator.com/transience-curator-adam-finkelston/group-exhibition/15 Shades of Blue: Contemporary Cyanotypes Potter Gallery at SWMU September 23- October 28th Mandala Project for food security a collaboration with the Rainier Valley Food Bank at BAAMFest at Rainier Beach, July,2016 Ecotone exhibit, Cyanotypes at the NW Green Home Tour Pop-up Gallery at NOCO 7, Columbia City, April-May 2016 Making a Statement Group Show of Artist Trust Edge graduates, 2013-2014, showing encaustic collage work from the studio of Isobel Davis, April, 2016 Cyanotype, and Encaustic Collage from the studio of Isobel Davis August - January 2016, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Bellevue Recent Cyanotype Work Collin's Pub, Pioneer Square, February & March, 2016 Cyanotype, and Encaustic Collage from the studio of Isobel Davis August - January 2016, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Bellevue Energy of the Ecotone exhibiting cyanotypes and encaustics at the Row House Cafe, 1170 Republican St. Seattle. Exhibit opens at the South Lake Union Art Walk December, 2014 through February 2015. The Painting Center is Turning 21! "Ecotone Germination" is being exhibited in this show commemorating 21 years of the center. The Painting Center, West 27th St., New York, NY, November 25 - December 20, 2014. Ecology Global Network "Earth's Flotsam" appears in the EcoArt section of Ecology website along with other artists from the exhibit Shifting Ecologies. It appears in part 2 of 5. http://www.ecology.com/2014/08/15/shifting-ecologies-environmental-art-part-2/ Give and Take: installation with 5 city trees for the “Art of the City” first annual arts festival put on by the Tashiro Kaplan building artists, August 2014 Shifting Ecologies, exhibit and catalog, The Painting Center, West 27th St., New York, NY, June – July 2014 Feral Objects Creon Gallery, NYC, Creon Gallery, 238 E 24 St, 1B New York, NY, April 16 to May 14, 2014 Artist talk and slide show Principia College, Elsah, Illinois, March 31, 2014 "Bee-line to the Land of Milk and Honey". Lead Artist run workshops creating artifacts with participants and assembling an installation in support of bee pollinators at the Sustainability Conference, Principia College, Elsah, Illinois, March 27-29, 2014. Inscape Open Studio March 23, 2014, Seattle, WA Out with a Bang" Corridor Gallery, Toshiro Kaplan Building, Seattle, WA. Exhibit featuring 2013 Artist Trust Edge graduates, March 2-29, 2014, Artwork selected for the annual Artist Trust Auction, February 2014, Seattle, WA Inscape Open Studio December 8, 2013 Lip Smacking Good: Art connecting community to community crops through recipes. ongoing. Bradner Gardens, Seattle, WA, initiated October 2013 lip-smacking-good.blogspot.com, the jerusalem artichoke project and fence art. Inscape Arts Festival - Edible Parts 3 in space 102 and New Cyanotypes in space 323 September 15, 2014, Seattle, WA Issaquah Art Walk, the CS Reading Room, September 4, 2013 Public Artist Talk and Slideshow, Port Townsend, WA August 24, 2013 Edge Professional Development Residency at Centrum, Port Townsend, WA, August 17-24, 2013 Nature in the Balance: artists interpreting climate change Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA July 6 – September 22, 2013 Group Show Iron Door Gallery at Inscape, June 2013 Aliteration Iron Door Gallery at Inscape, April - May 2013 Edible Parts: Grow 1 Open studio installation space, March 3rd, April 4th, second iteration June 2nd, 2013 Inscape Grand Open House, Inscape Arts Building, Seattle, WA, July 14, 2012. (Isobel participates in Seattle's First Thursday in her InScape studio held every First Thursday of the month, until 2013) Butoh Collaboration with “Divided By Zero”, Sheri Brown and Co. Performance Dates: - Solo version: Costume, sculpture, Inscape festival, March 3, 2013 - The next reiteration: Costume art and stage set sculptures in cyaotype, wax and metal, Adjacent to the Next 50 Pavilion at the Seattle Center, September 27th, 2012 and Toshiro Kaplan, February 3, 2013 - Costume art and Stage Sculpture entitled, “Climbing, Falling Into Infinite” Velocity Dance Center, Seattle, WA, June 24, 2012 - Costume art, International Dance Festival, Raisbeck Hall, Seattle, WA, June 7, 2012 - Costume art, Clackamas College, Portland. OR, May 17, 2012 Eat With the World: the Most Common Meal Bradner Gardens, Seattle, WA, Feb 11 & 12, 2012 |