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IZZY R DAVIS

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@dizzyavis
art institute of chicago BFA 26
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drawings on handmade paper from the end of my last semester

charcoal, handmade paper, logwood dye. by @avisartt

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creators curated <volume 3>

sweet angel baby magazine’s top artist picks of the week.
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a multi-media curated collection
featuring @annapederson @emmett.hartlove @_kaynines @emma.beatrez @avisartt

volume 03 curated by @zutopia_100 and @ima__massey
designed by @zutopia_100
note by curatorial supervisor @ima__massey and edited by @lyricroyy by @avisartt

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How to find water under the scorched earth.

Logwood dye, black walnut hull ink, oak gall ink, liquid graphite, vine charcoal, colored pencil, acrylic gesso, on canvas. 10inx28in. 2026

Stick (dowsing rod), beeswaxed cotton yarn, diamond. by @avisartt

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Vine charcoal, vine black ink, colored pencil, pastel pencil, graphite, liquid graphite, embroidery floss, oil paint, acrylic paint, rabbit skin glue, on paper and canvas. 42inx36in. 2026 by @avisartt

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Today is the last day to see this up! open 12:30-6pm at the 280 site gallery. taken in School of the Art Institute of Chicago by @avisartt

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Exhibition statement from Flagging and Foraging by @avisartt

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Installation images from Flagging and Foraging. Closes on Friday, May 15th. taken in School of the Art Institute of Chicago by @avisartt

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Beetle Strata

Black walnut hull ink, acrylic ink, fluid acrylic, liquid graphite, vine black ink, charcoal, soft pastel, colored pencil, oil paint, acrylic gesso, on canvas. 90inx48in. 2026 by @avisartt

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do you dig your hands into the earth the way beetles do into bark?

images from my last undergrad crit ever lalala taken in School of the Art Institute of Chicago by @avisartt

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tomorrow!!!! 280 building room 125 from 4-6. come talk and learn about processing found, natural materials to use within an art practice taken in School of the Art Institute of Chicago by @avisartt

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Smoke Scattered Sunlight

Vine charcoal, matte medium, acrylic paint, on polypropylene flagging ribbon laminated panel. 7.5inx9.75in. 2026 by @avisartt

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Excited to announce the opening of “Flagging and Foraging”, a solo exhibition by Izzy Davis.

Opening reception April 22nd (Earth Day) from 4pm-6pm.

Do clearcutters dream of the sounds trees make as they are sawed down in forests, the same way I dream about the sound a tree might make in a forest I’m not at all in?

Flagging and Foraging explores material ancestry and synthesis. All material comes from somewhere… like old-growth trees, felled to be manufactured and marketed in commercial logging. Or alternatively, with the abscission of a ripened hull, respectfully collected from the earthen floor, to be boiled into something new. Izzy Davis implores viewers to read material with extra attention, and raise questions about intention, process, and choice.
The grounds of Davis’s work are the peculiar sites of human interventions into otherwise untamed forest: clearcut fields where old-growth forests once stood, reliefs made by pine beetles boring into soft phloem beneath bark. Alongside the natural world, purpose is derived equally from construction and appearance. An image imposed onto a surface is not limited to an obedient plane. Marks are informed by the grain and texture of a surface. Layers of medium build up, pigments derived from foraged tree-materials are mulled into paint, boiled into ink, or fired into charcoal. Gathered synthetic ribbon, plastics, and paints are used in tandem with vegetation. Imagery is drawn from the natural order of the world around; its forestscapes, fields, trails, and trees, and how human hands tie synthetic materials into land. by @avisartt

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