Bill Davison: Thirty-five years of Prints

August 13 - December 15, 2002
Wolcott Gallery

Bill Davison has taught printmaking at the University of Vermont since 1967. The select group of prints on view this fall represents work from throughout his career. Screenprinting, the primary technique that Davison has utilized, is represented in prints from 1966 through 1996. The evolution of his work over that period reflects both technological advances and key developments in American art. While Davison’s imagery and techniques have evolved and changed over the decades, the elegance, subtlety, and formal concerns in his work remain constant. His most recent work explores a new medium for him, monoprints. A selection of these painterly explorations on the theme of the grid -- a recurring formal element in his work - will be included. This exhibition clearly reveals the consistent aesthetic in a mature body of work created over three decades. Davison will retire from the Art Department faculty in the spring of 2003; the exhibition honors this respected artist and professor at the start of his final year of teaching.