Willa Davis

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Dome of the Green Cathedral

The Great Hall

Vision Quest

Iron Maiden, Maiden and Child

Born 1944, USA. the artist lives and works in Jackson, Michigan,, USA. I am a visual person, and so I will try to be brief with the words. I asked for my first camera at the age of nine. Purchased my first camera at the age of nineteen�haven�t been without one since. Took drawing and painting courses at Eastern Michigan University, and the University of Michigan. Served my graphic art apprenticeship at a number of in-house studios in Chicago, IL, and Ann Arbor, MI. Worked as a designer in Ann Arbor, Miami, Boston, and the San Francisco Bay area. Lived and traveled on a small sailboat for three years, photographing the ocean, sky, the foreign ports and people we visited: the Bahamas, Haiti; the Azores, Portugal, Morocco, and others. This was a wondrous experience of living in the vast openness of sea and sky. I had, and have not since, felt more in touch and connected to Nature (Gaia, the Earth Goddess). I now live in Jackson, Michigan, where I continue to work as a graphic designer/small-format photographer � and pursue my love of photography as an art form. Exhibitions 2007: The River Gallery, Chelsea, MI Summer Group Show 2007: Denver International Airport Invitational Exhibition Sponsored by The Center for Fine Art Photography (Image selected: Lunar Magic) 2006: Art634, Jackson, Michigan Invited to show in the �Winds of Change� Group Exhibition Curated by Steven Sayles 2006: The Chelsea Art Museum, NY, NY. Invited to show in the, �It’s Not a Photo� Exhibition Curated by Manon Slome and Julia Draganovic (Mandalas selected: Dome of the Green Cathedral and The Great Hall) 2005: The River Gallery, Chelsea, MI Great Lakes Region Juried Exhibition Juror: Sean Ulmer, University of Michigan Art Museum, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. (Mandala selected: Dome of the Green Cathedral) 2004: First International Invitational Photo Exhibition The Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO Juror: Mary Virginia Swanson (Mandala selected: Ode to a Locomotive) 2003: Pierre Paul Gallery Solo Exhibition Ann Arbor, Michigan First exhibition of the Gaia Mandalas Website: artist’s website

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Womit konnten Sie nichts anfangen?

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Podcastlogo. Und hier der Fünf Minuten für 12-Podcast (MP3, 5,1 MB) zur dritten Frage: „Womit konnten Sie bei Ihrem ersten documenta 12-Besuch nichts anfangen?“ Schnitt: Ayano Furuta, Marie-Therese Mävers und Annika Mayer.

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Rundgang2007

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Our annual exhibition is just about a week ago, right here in Kassel, during Documenta 12. If you can, come and visit our school. There’sa nice Rundgang trailer up at youtube, if you care. Cheers, a.

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Documenta 12

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Life in the Documenta city could be tough!! atleast for 3 months with thousands pouring in. when i caught my morning tram to get to my University, i saw these rows of headphones sennheisers Pro 212 hanging on the tram windows! …

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Met Documenta 12 de nacht in

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Documenta 12 in Kassel stelt hedendaagse kunst tentoon. Het gaat hier om de grootste hedendaagse kunsthappening ter wereld, nog geopend tot 23 september. Hier een werk van Cosina von… Wees welkom op de Duitslandblog voor meer…

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Palm Trees and Camouflage Do-rags, Happy Together

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For her showing at this summer’s Documenta 12 (the show staged every five years in Kassel, Germany, at which Jeff Koons was famously discovered decades ago), Bosnia-born artist Danica Dakic gets at a new kind of “teenage wasteland. …

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Iole de Freitas - documenta 12

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Untitled. Installation.

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"Floor of the forest" - Trisha Brown - Museum Fridericianum …

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Installation/ performance. TRISHA BROWN.

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Documenta sin postal

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Esta mixtificación, y si no echen un vistazo a las recientes reseñas, parece estar afectando a la Documenta 12, donde la jirafa disecada de un zoo de Palestina de Peter Friedl compite con los movimientos de Trisha Brown o la instalación …

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jetlag

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As promised, some silly comics during my visit to Art Basel, the Venice Biennale and Documenta 12- these are all I managed when I was awake on the hotel bed/train/plane. J told me his weeknights then were spent watching Matthey Barney’s …

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