Sally Davies
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Sally Davies is a painter and photographer, currently based in New York City
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Graduated from the Ontario School of Art and Design, New York City Program. She achieved her first public attention in New York in the 1990s with her "Lucky Paintings" and "Lucky Chairs" exhibiting at the OK Harris Gallery
, and then at the Gracie Mansion Gallery. Following the Lucky Paintings were the "tattoo paintings", "product paintings", and the "furniture paintings". Davies moved into photography with the "Alien photos" in 2000, and has been photographing ever since. Her "McDonalds Happy Meal Project" went viral in 2010.
Her paintings have been featured on:
Her paintings and photographs are in the collections of Harvard Business School
, Sarah Jessica Parker
, Debra Winger
, Michael Patrick King
, Phil Scotti, Jane Holzer
, Michael Karangelen, Gary Lightbody Snow Patrol
and others.
Davies portraits include Debra Winger
on the cover of Winger's 2008 book "undiscovered" (Simon and Schuster 2008), Elaine Kaufman
in Everyone Comes to Elaine's
(A. E. Hotchner, Harper Collins Publishers, NYC, 2004), and Jim Cuddy
's CD, "The Light That Guides You Home" (Warner Music Canada, 2006), and Jim Cuddy
's CD, "Skyscraper Soul" 2011 (Warner Canada)
Her photographs of the 9/11 attacks can be found in "A Democracy of Photos" (Scalo Press, Zurich, Berlin & New York, 2002).
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
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Graduated from the Ontario School of Art and Design, New York City Program. She achieved her first public attention in New York in the 1990s with her "Lucky Paintings" and "Lucky Chairs" exhibiting at the OK Harris Gallery
OK Harris Gallery
The OK Harris Gallery is an art gallery located at 383 West Broadway in SoHo, New York City.Previously located at 485 West Broadway, in the early 1970s it hosted exhibits by Alan Vega, some of which were advertised as "Punk Music" predating the later Punk rock by some years.-History:Ivan C...
, and then at the Gracie Mansion Gallery. Following the Lucky Paintings were the "tattoo paintings", "product paintings", and the "furniture paintings". Davies moved into photography with the "Alien photos" in 2000, and has been photographing ever since. Her "McDonalds Happy Meal Project" went viral in 2010.
Her paintings have been featured on:
- HBO's Sex and the CitySex and the CitySex and the City is an American television comedy-drama series created by Darren Star and produced by HBO. Broadcast from 1998 until 2004, the original run of the show had a total of ninety-four episodes...
" (episode: The Cheating Curve) - Ted DemmeTed DemmeEdward K. "Ted" Demme was an American film director and producer.- Early life and career :Born in New York City, Demme grew up in Rockville Centre on Long Island, New York and attended South Side Senior High School. He graduated from SUNY-Cortland in 1985. His media career likely began with a...
's film, 200 Cigarettes200 Cigarettes200 Cigarettes is a 1999 comedy-drama film starring Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Dave Chappelle, Guillermo Díaz, Angela Featherstone, Janeane Garofalo, Gaby Hoffman, Kate Hudson, Courtney Love, Jay Mohr, Martha Plimpton, Christina Ricci and Paul Rudd. The film also features paintings by Sally... - Her "Lucky Chairs" have been featured on The Oprah Winfrey ShowThe Oprah Winfrey ShowThe Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
and Sex and the CitySex and the CitySex and the City is an American television comedy-drama series created by Darren Star and produced by HBO. Broadcast from 1998 until 2004, the original run of the show had a total of ninety-four episodes...
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Her paintings and photographs are in the collections of Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive...
, Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker is an American film, television, and theater actress and producer.She is best known for her leading role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City , for which she won four Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards...
, Debra Winger
Debra Winger
Mary Debra Winger is an American actress. Three-times an Oscar nominee, she received awards for acting in Terms of Endearment, for which she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1983, and in A Dangerous Woman, for which she won the Tokyo International Film Festival...
, Michael Patrick King
Michael Patrick King
Michael Patrick King is an American director, writer and producer for television shows.-Life and career:King was born to an Irish American family in Scranton, Pennsylvania and was raised as a Roman Catholic...
, Phil Scotti, Jane Holzer
Jane Holzer
Jane Holzer is a US art collector and film producer who was previously an actress, model, and Warhol superstar. She was often known by the nickname Baby Jane Holzer....
, Michael Karangelen, Gary Lightbody Snow Patrol
Snow Patrol
Snow Patrol are an alternative rock band from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. Formed at the University of Dundee in 1994 as an indie rock band, the band is now based in Glasgow...
and others.
Davies portraits include Debra Winger
Debra Winger
Mary Debra Winger is an American actress. Three-times an Oscar nominee, she received awards for acting in Terms of Endearment, for which she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1983, and in A Dangerous Woman, for which she won the Tokyo International Film Festival...
on the cover of Winger's 2008 book "undiscovered" (Simon and Schuster 2008), Elaine Kaufman
Elaine Kaufman
Elaine Edna Kaufman was a restaurateur whose Manhattan restaurant Elaine's attracted a following among prominent actors, writers, and other celebrities.-Life and career:...
in Everyone Comes to Elaine's
Elaine's
Elaine's was an Upper East Side bar and restaurant, located near the corner of 2nd Avenue and East 88th Street in Manhattan which shut its doors for the last time on May 26th, 2011.-History:...
(A. E. Hotchner, Harper Collins Publishers, NYC, 2004), and Jim Cuddy
Jim Cuddy
Jim Cuddy is a Canadian singer-songwriter primarily associated with the band Blue Rodeo. He has also recorded three solo albums with the Jim Cuddy Band, which features musicians Bazil Donovan, Colin Cripps, Joel Anderson, Anne Lindsay and Gavin Brown...
's CD, "The Light That Guides You Home" (Warner Music Canada, 2006), and Jim Cuddy
Jim Cuddy
Jim Cuddy is a Canadian singer-songwriter primarily associated with the band Blue Rodeo. He has also recorded three solo albums with the Jim Cuddy Band, which features musicians Bazil Donovan, Colin Cripps, Joel Anderson, Anne Lindsay and Gavin Brown...
's CD, "Skyscraper Soul" 2011 (Warner Canada)
Her photographs of the 9/11 attacks can be found in "A Democracy of Photos" (Scalo Press, Zurich, Berlin & New York, 2002).
Solo exhibitions
- 2000 "New Photographs" Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York City
- 2000 MTV Corporate Offices, New York City
- 1999 "Aliens in Art," Bucknell Center Gallery, Bucknell University Lewisburg, PennsylvaniaLewisburg, PennsylvaniaLewisburg is a borough in Union County, Pennsylvania, United States, south by southeast of Williamsport and north of Harrisburg. In the past, it was the commercial center for a fertile grain and general farming region. The population was 5,620 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Union...
- 1997 Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York City
- 1997 Robert Steele Gallery, New York City
- 1996 OK Harris Gallery, New York City
- 1994 Galerie Barbara Silverberg, Quebec, Canada
- 1993 OK Harris Gallery, New York City
Group exhibitions
- 2011 "9/11 Memorial Exhibition" International Center for Photography NYC Sept 2011 - Jan 2012
- 2011 "Fuck Pretty" Robert Berman Gallery Santa Monica, curated by Angela FeatherstoneAngela FeatherstoneAngela Eileen Featherstone is a Canadian actress. She is best known for playing Chloe, in Friends.Angela Featherstone was a model in the 1980's. She has been an actress since 1992 in films and television. While acting Featherstone created sitcoms she sold to Sony, DreamWorks and NBC television...
. - 2004 "Incongruous Juxtapositions" Molly Barnes at Studio 18 NYC
- 2003 "The Miniature Show", Graystone Gallery San Francisco
- 2002 "A Democracy of Photos" New York City 116 Prince St. NYC
Display locales
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- Troy, New YorkTroy, New YorkTroy is a city in the US State of New York and the seat of Rensselaer County. Troy is located on the western edge of Rensselaer County and on the eastern bank of the Hudson River. Troy has close ties to the nearby cities of Albany and Schenectady, forming a region popularly called the Capital...
, Fulton Street Gallery, 408 Fulton Street - Boca Raton, FloridaBoca Raton, FloridaBoca Raton is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA, incorporated in May 1925. In the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 74,764; the 2006 population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 86,396. However, the majority of the people under the postal address of Boca Raton, about...
, Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road - Tampa, FloridaTampa, FloridaTampa is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709....
, Grand Court at International Plaza and Bay Street, 2223 N. West Shore Blvd. - Louisville, KentuckyLouisville, KentuckyLouisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
, Louisville Public Library, 301 York Street - OhioOhioOhio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
, Marietta CollegeMarietta CollegeMarietta College is a co-educational private college in Marietta, Ohio, USA, which was the first permanent settlement of the Northwest Territory. The school offers 42 majors along with a large number of minors, all of which are grounded in a strong liberal arts foundation...
, McDonough Center, Andrews Hall - Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th Street NW - Zurich, Switzerland, Zurich Kunsthaus, Heimplatz 1, 8001
- Tokyo, Japan, Mitsukoshi, 1-4-1 Nihonbashi Muromachi, Chou-ku
- ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, 85-87, Rue Du Faubourg-Saint-Martin - Berlin, Germany, Martin Gropius BauMartin Gropius BauMartin-Gropius-Bau, originally a museum of applied arts and a listed historical monument since 1966, is a well-known Berlin exhibition hall located at Niederkirchnerstraße 7 in Berlin-Kreuzberg.- History and architecture :...
Berlin, Niederkirchnerstrasse 7/Ecke Stresemannstrasse - Dresden, Germany, Dresdner Druck- und Verlagshaus — Saechsische Zeitung/ Haus der Presse Ostra-Allee 20, 01067
- Düsseldorf, Germany, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft,Ehrenhof 2
- LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, The Newsroom, the Guardian and Observer's New Archive, 60 Farringdon Road, EC1
- Troy, New York