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Davin K. Ebanks

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🇰🇾 Caymanian-American Sculptor, glass geek, flyfisher, banana enthusiast, curator, and educator.

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Passage: Negro (“can we find light in the never-ending shade? / The loss we carry, / a sea we must wade.”)
[Excerpt: “The Hill We Climb”, Amanda Gorman @amandascgorman]
Cast Glass
24H x 9W x 4D inches
2021
(Photo 1: jamieb.hahn 2: Jacob Koestler at The Sculpture Center @thesculpturecenter )

#glasssculpture #glasscasting #castglass #contemporaryart #sculpture #bananaart #plantains #contemporaryglass #midatlantic #contemporaryglassart #kilnformedglass #thermoforming #glassart #glassartist #caymanart #diasporaart #caribbeanart #caribbeanartist #davinebanks by @davin.ebanks

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5 years ago

Honored to have my work included in @bananacraze2021 online exhibit alongside amazing artists who use the banana to speak to socioeconomic, cultural, and political issues. Thanks again to @thefruitsofempire for the love! Check out the entire show at LINK IN BIO.

Self portrait with bananas (“free as dis sea, / I know myself, an I know my ways, / An will sing wid pride to de end o my days / Praise God an m’big right han / I will live an die a banana man.”)

[Excerpt: Song of the Banana Man, Evan Jones]
Blown and Sand-carved Glass
2021
Photo: @jamiehahnstudio
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#bananaart #contemporaryart #contemporaryglass #glasssculpture #diasporaart #caribbeanart #bananacraze #glasssculpture #contemporarysculpture #davinebanks #caymanartist #contemporaryglasssculpture #figurativeart #figurativesculpture #portraitsculpture by @davin.ebanks

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3 years ago

Musings on the creative process and when it’s over. Is it after the idea phase (and we turn into engineers that bring the idea to life)? Or does the making matter?
#creativity #creativeprocess by @davin.ebanks

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2 months ago

Thinking about boundaries lately. Edges. The *sigh* liminal space between worlds. The works in my cast “water” series imply they are part of a (vastly) larger whole. The rectangular pieces borrow from the grid—the human invention to partition space—and suggest they are anonymous quadrants of space. The Edge Series imagines what the edges of that space might look like.

“Edge Study, No. 2”
Cast Glass
15x15x2 inches
2016
Photos by @jamiehahnstudio
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#glassart #glasssculpture #caribbeanart by @davin.ebanks

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7 months ago

Sharing concept and process of my ‘Blanc Variant’ series. Contemplating beauty, loss, and the presence of absence.
#glassartwork #contemparyart #caribbeanart by @davin.ebanks

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3 months ago

Reflecting on my @pilchuckglassschool @crafting_the_future Residency and this body of experimental work. Grateful to have the dedicated time to play—the hallmark of creativity—and work through new ideas directly.
#glassart #glasssculpture #caribbeanart #guanabana #soursop by @davin.ebanks

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7 months ago

I wasn’t always a glassblower. I was a painter and enamored with #jamesmcneillwhistler This is one of the few I didn’t sell during college. Now in Mom’s permanent collection. I also studied painters’ processes. Whistler wanted his canvases to seem immediate, spontaneous. His marines/seascapes are great examples of this. Traces of the singular brushstrokes are obvious. Love the way this captured a typical cloudy Cayman sunset.
#sunsetpainting #caribbeanart by @davin.ebanks

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3 months ago

Ground Basket No. 3: (“white salt marking its finely corrugated edges & stretching out into thousands of tongues. miles of soft drifting labials. like pellucid love on the water.”)

[Excerpt: Bermudas, Kamau Brathwaite]
Blown Glass
12”x12”x10”
2022

Going back over the last year of shows and realize I need to continue this series. This work was first shown @decontemporary in a group show titled “Through a Glass, Darkly”, which was curated by @rosenbergalexander @jenna_lucente @kristindeady Such an honor to have been included and even more to see the show and meet the curators and fellow artists!

#glassart #contemporaryglass #glassblowingtechniques #glasssculpture #contemporaryart #contemporarysculpture #caribbeanart #diasporaart #caymanart #sculpture #art #pink #blownglass by @davin.ebanks

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3 years ago

Join us for an IG Live with the artists featured in the Momentum | Intersection Exhibition.

We go live tomorrow (10/3) at 7pm with TMA's Chuchen Song and Kelli Fisher as they have discussions with artists Matt Hutchinson, Davin Ebanks, and Gabriel Peña Tijerina. by @davin.ebanks

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“Blue Meridian: 81.4ºW, Boatswain’s Bay”
Cast, Blasted & Polished Glass
15"Hx30"Wx4"D
2009

“It looks like [the artist] waded out into the ocean, cut out a block of the water and somehow magically transferred it to the gallery floor.”
~ Natalie Urquhart, NGCI Director @nataliecurquhart

These free-standing cast glass sculptures strike a balance between being convincing models of water and being minimalist slabs of blue or green glass. They serve as stand-ins for something that isn’t there, while at the same time being there themselves.

They were the answer to a simple question: “What if you removed water from the ocean floor and the air above it? What would that look like?”

It is an interesting phenomenon that when looking at these models of water we are put in mind of actual water that we’ve seen in the past, and the more realistic or specific the water model in front of us the more we are reminded of water in a specific place, not merely water in general. So, as viewers we become—like the model itself—split in two: one self seeing and recognizing the reality of the water model in front of us (and acknowledging that it is in fact a solid, heavy, cast glass sculpture), the other remembering and imagining water that we’ve seen before. Our consciousness begins to suffer from the same duality as the sculpture: here and not here.
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#sculpture #glasssculpture #castglass #castglasssculpture #glassart #contemporaryart #contemporarysculpture #ronihorn #dewainvalentine #contemporaryglass #contemporaryglasssculpture #postminimalism #diasporaart #caribbeanartists #caymanartist #davinebanks by @davin.ebanks

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5 years ago

Pleased to be included in the @glassartsociety Juried Member Exhibition for their annual conference. This year it’s virtual (what isn’t? 😅). Hope to see you at the virtual opening today!
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"And occasionally from out of this matter..." (Self-Portrait with Frangipani)
Blown, Hot-sculpted & Sand-carved Glass
[Kerry & Betty C. Davis Collection]
(Photo: @jamiehahnstudio )
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#gasconference2021 #diasporaart #caribbeanart #frangipani #glassart #blownglass #glasssculpture #contemporaryart #contemporaryglass #sculpture #noir #hotsculptedglass #system96 #portraitsculpture #figurativeart #davinebanks by @davin.ebanks

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5 years ago

Teaching, Learning, & Democracy. Let’s get into it.
#teachingideas #america #inspirational by @davin.ebanks

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3 months ago