{"id":24845,"date":"2014-02-06T23:22:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T05:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=24845"},"modified":"2019-02-25T19:07:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T01:07:11","slug":"paul-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/paul-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Profile: Paul Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/252206113?app_id=122963\" width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Paul Davis: Controlled Accident\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Paul Davis likes his studio dark. He compares the former garage \u2014 now rendered useless by the roof-high pile of firewood in front of its doors \u2014 to \u201cthe bat cave.\u201d Inside, where the windows are blacked-out, the only natural light comes from a small skylight that the artist keeps mostly obstructed. \u201cIt\u2019s a little dark, a little sleepy,\u201d he says, \u201clike a movie theatre just before it goes dark. That\u2019s the way I like it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davis can remember his perfect Saturday as a child \u2014 in the museums until one o\u2019clock and the rest of the day in the movie theatre. \u201cThose two things have always been mixed up in my head,\u201d he says. In third grade, when television was just coming to the neighborhood, he remembers there wasn\u2019t much on, mostly old black and white movies from the thirties. So, he says, you\u2019d end up watching anything\u2014good or bad didn\u2019t matter\u2014and that early mix of imagery has been swimming around his head ever since. It comes out in his latest works, paintings that are a menagerie of figures that spread over the canvas creating a polyphony of narratives.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013 Davis was voted one of Utah\u2019s 15 most influential artists and his work will be featured in an exhibit this month at the Rio Gallery with the other fourteen artists. In this video interview, we visited \u201cthe bat cave\u201d where the artist says the best time to paint is with the fire going and a blizzard blowing around outside. Watch to hear him discuss his life and work and what it was that drove him to look for creativity in chaos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Davis likes his studio dark. He compares the former garage \u2014 now rendered useless by the roof-high pile of firewood in front of its doors \u2014 to \u201cthe bat cave.\u201d Inside, where the windows are blacked-out, the only natural light comes from a small skylight that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,44,14],"tags":[1643],"class_list":["post-24845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artist_profiles","category-videos","category-visual_arts","tag-paul-davis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pauldavis.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 21:56:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24845"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39134,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24845\/revisions\/39134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}