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Dexter Davis

Dexter Davis born in 1965, lives and works in Cleveland, OH. He received his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and his work is found in the collections of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Progressive Corporation. He has completed residencies with Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH and the Experimental Printmaking Institute, Lafayette College, Easton, PA.

Dexter’s art has an African quality, which feels like it comes out of something deeper than just being exposed to African art through museum visits or books. Not only the imagery but the colors, the visual rhythms, and most of all the deeper purpose of the art–its connection with the world of spirits and healing—all exude a spirit that feels African. Sometimes his work feels as though it’s not so much the creation of an artist as a shaman.
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