A Conversation with Alonzo Davis

In the Helen C. Frederick Gallery:
October 6, 2024
2:30 - 4:00 pm

On the closing day of Errantry, join us for a conversation with Alonzo Davis about his work.

About Errantry
On View NOW - October 6

Errantry shares Davis’ explorations on paper over the last thirty years, juxtaposed with his newer, larger-scale mixed media constructions. Exhibited works include prints, collage, and sculpture. The theme of Errantry, which in this exhibition is interpreted as a form of wandering that includes a sacred motivation, reflects Davis as a traveler of the physical world, an artist who migrates between several different media, and as an explorer of the depths of his subconscious. His inner travel, expressed through an intuitive, improvisational approach to abstract composition, reflects a lifetime of national and international journeying.

About Alonzo Davis

A native of Tuskegee, Alabama, Alonzo Davis moved to Los Angeles in his teens. He earned degrees from Pepperdine College and Otis Art Institute. Influenced early on by the assemblagists, Davis experiments with a variety of mediums, techniques, and themes. In the late ‘60s, he and his brother Dale Davis opened the Brockman Gallery—the first in LA dedicated to African American art and artists. During the '70s and early '80s, Davis was a driver of the California mural movement. His Eye on ’84 is one of ten Olympic murals on the walls of the downtown Los Angeles Harbor Freeway. After leaving LA, Davis’ career includes overseeing Sacramento’s Percent-for-Art program, working at the San Antonio Art Institute, and teaching at Memphis College of Art, where he served as Dean from 1993 to 2002. In 2002, he moved to Maryland, establishing a vibrant studio practice that combines the local and the global as well as the personal and universal.