https://questionsfromthesoil.org Cass Davis Sun, 19 Feb 2023 01:14:31 +0000 https://questionsfromthesoil.org en https://questionsfromthesoil.org/Home Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:29:15 +0000 Cass Davis https://questionsfromthesoil.org/Home <img width="2000" height="1125" width_o="2000" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b9ff1a5334a4e614396506321587b924f9872b79fcdde4f461f071a2a1a4dc1/2023_MOCA-Cleveland_A-soft-place-to-land_01.jpg" data-mid="189480971" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b9ff1a5334a4e614396506321587b924f9872b79fcdde4f461f071a2a1a4dc1/2023_MOCA-Cleveland_A-soft-place-to-land_01.jpg" />A soft place to land,&nbsp;2023 Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art &nbsp;<img width="1600" height="2000" width_o="1600" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95b53fd77865f39ba62d22455694ba35ad8cf2f6b4a465f93e25b4e26d2ff85b/2023_MOCA-Cleveland_A-soft-place-to-land_16.jpg" data-mid="189480991" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95b53fd77865f39ba62d22455694ba35ad8cf2f6b4a465f93e25b4e26d2ff85b/2023_MOCA-Cleveland_A-soft-place-to-land_16.jpg" />^“Binding the Devil,” 2023. Photo by Jacob Koestler. Produced with a generous grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. REVELATIONS 2022University of Southern Indiana, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art <img width="3840" height="5760" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56ae67ddcfa32065d9c7fd78fef6e3aaf1284145ddc52573f98bb9d71f87d441/Revelations_Tabernacle.jpg" data-mid="168926648" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/56ae67ddcfa32065d9c7fd78fef6e3aaf1284145ddc52573f98bb9d71f87d441/Revelations_Tabernacle.jpg" /> <img width="5638" height="3759" width_o="5638" height_o="3759" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5df4da01a326f4625e7b8c867bcea4b0e5df45b02277e64478abd6d2a802d6ed/Revelations_Gallery-View_4.jpg" data-mid="189481748" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5df4da01a326f4625e7b8c867bcea4b0e5df45b02277e64478abd6d2a802d6ed/Revelations_Gallery-View_4.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="3600" width_o="2400" height_o="3600" 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height="1800" width_o="1200" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e297bf7645f520eef23e2a8c59d828369fce17742e0fc43564a0c218adfb5eb0/Cass-Davis_A-house-with-many-gardens_3.jpg" data-mid="130678374" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e297bf7645f520eef23e2a8c59d828369fce17742e0fc43564a0c218adfb5eb0/Cass-Davis_A-house-with-many-gardens_3.jpg" /> <img width="9508" height="6342" width_o="9508" height_o="6342" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5eb42bb124a7f3d090dbfb6d723e72a9abdd1454db73ee335de6e5f2ea7baaaa/Cass-Davis_Out-of-Time_01.jpg" data-mid="130677139" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5eb42bb124a7f3d090dbfb6d723e72a9abdd1454db73ee335de6e5f2ea7baaaa/Cass-Davis_Out-of-Time_01.jpg" /> View the show <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8cbc28c9c5bd312f650fbd86788dfcce128416d25890607402a544870135313f/rope-studio-work-DSC_0527.jpg" 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empathy,&nbsp;2022 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art <img width="1706" height="1138" width_o="1706" height_o="1138" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/491a5dd7b4a6b1b4efb3ce16c986dba43dbd628680589e912b7466ff8c7fa9d1/Screen-Shot-2018-08-22-at-12.14.35-PM.png" data-mid="189481747" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/491a5dd7b4a6b1b4efb3ce16c986dba43dbd628680589e912b7466ff8c7fa9d1/Screen-Shot-2018-08-22-at-12.14.35-PM.png" /> Network of Escape, 2017 Tile Blush, Miami https://questionsfromthesoil.org/About-Contact Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:29:15 +0000 Cass Davis https://questionsfromthesoil.org/About-Contact About/ Contact <img width="3667" height="2661" width_o="3667" height_o="2661" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7faf4cd3b618aaa38bb7cd7d0d962411e37fbae50b61404a3b0c132bb91334b/Cass-Davis_Tracing-Faults__9b.jpg" data-mid="70475011" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c3d55f6eb263194970244b0766afe953ac78d3de8aab62ccdf49b2a3137eecd/Cassandra-Davis_Harvest_19_180.jpg" data-mid="70461619" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c3d55f6eb263194970244b0766afe953ac78d3de8aab62ccdf49b2a3137eecd/Cassandra-Davis_Harvest_19_180.jpg" /> MFA 2017 School of the Art Institute of ChicagoContact: questionsfromthesoil (at) gmail.com Cass Davis is a Chicago-based artist with an MFA (2017) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Fiber and Material Studies. Through performance, video, installation and sculpture, Cass Davis’ work examines their own Midwestern Evangelical upbringing. Davis is interested in understanding relationships between redemption, resurrection, embodied trauma, and the failure of the American dream. Their work exhumes the violence embedded within white supremacy and patriarchy. Inversely, they are enchanted by the power of spiritual ecstasy and how the reclamation of ritual might offer the marginalized body a transcendent experience.&nbsp; Davis’ work also reimagines rural materials like corn and hay, and spaces like the revival or parade —and expands the archival and photographic into embodied form. Through the hand-sewn, hand-woven, and hand-printed, Davis’ process embodies the obsessive devotion of the Believer.&nbsp; <img width="1086" height="593" width_o="1086" height_o="593" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd4a15e6b187929cdc5033de07cb2e284afa068fc46854c8b2ef8b572acafc82/Cassandra-Davis-jacquard-Studio.jpg" data-mid="68733029" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dd4a15e6b187929cdc5033de07cb2e284afa068fc46854c8b2ef8b572acafc82/Cassandra-Davis-jacquard-Studio.jpg" /> <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be07ef323c42a2eb8866b2b7f6424dc06118e862e57d1390c993438e14ac0c5b/Cassandra-Davis_Harvest_20.jpg" data-mid="70461746" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be07ef323c42a2eb8866b2b7f6424dc06118e862e57d1390c993438e14ac0c5b/Cassandra-Davis_Harvest_20.jpg" /> BioDavis’ solo shows include Out of Time at Engage Projects, HEARTLAND at G-CADD St. Louis, No Body on Earth But Yours with the Chicago Underground Film Festival, and Of Roses and Jessamine at SUGS gallery, Chicago. Davis has shown in group exhibitions and screenings at the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Bemis Center in Omaha, NE, York St. John University, UK, Tile Blush in Miami, FL, The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, The American Medium in NYC, Terrain Biennial, Mana Contemporary, Chicago Home Theater Festival, Sullivan Galleries, and the Silent Funny in Chicago, IL. They have been awarded the Praxis Fiber Arts Residency, HATCH Residency, Oxbow Artist's MFA Residency, Roger Brown Artist's Residency, and the IOTO Summer Residency, Shapiro Center Eager Research Grant, the World Less Traveled Grant, Dean’s Merit Scholarship, and have been lecturing faculty in Fiber and Material Studies at SAIC. https://questionsfromthesoil.org/Revelations Sun, 19 Feb 2023 01:08:10 +0000 Cass Davis https://questionsfromthesoil.org/Revelations <img width="3840" height="5760" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b56e8b3c0252f15daa667f8104df0f13ea100e70efc0f43d6f2b75d570dc36ff/Revelations_Tabernacle-2.jpg" data-mid="168920741" border="0" data-scale="80" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b56e8b3c0252f15daa667f8104df0f13ea100e70efc0f43d6f2b75d570dc36ff/Revelations_Tabernacle-2.jpg" /> REVELATIONS 2022University of Southern Indiana, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art New Harmony, IN Curated by Iris Williamson In this solo exhibition featuring new and existing work, Cass Davis exhumes collective and personal histories and questions perceptions of history—an excavation of Small Town America. Titling the show after the final apocalyptic Biblical book, Davis explores a multiplicity of transformational experiences, or Revelations. Conversing with the roots of Evangelicalism, whiteness, their own Midwestern upbringing in the church, and New Harmony’s “utopian” attempts, Davis’s work seeks to ask the question, What is to be revived and what is to be dismantled? Revelations implies the removal of the veil—a revelation of truth. The installation, sculptural, and textile works in Revelations utilize the textures and imagery of rural landscapes. Hand-woven Jacquard textiles featuring archival images of 1920s Appalachian revivals; the 1908 Springfield, IL Race Riot; and the artist’s own family photos allow for a revisitation of complex histories. Hay bales sourced from local farms, natural materials, and roadside architecture evoke a sense of familiarity and curiosity, and conjure the memory embedded in the land. Revelations embodies the duality of tragedy and ecstasy found in the human search for transcendence. Sifting through archival materials, Davis seeks to uncover what has been hidden. “How can we alter our perceptions of history? What if we recognize that the oppressed past is non-linear; that history remains alive in the present?” Davis states, “Perhaps we can recognize that the ghosts that haunt our lives are speaking to us from the past—that through acknowledging their presence, we may find a place to address our history with honesty and find a path to healing.” <img width="3840" height="5760" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7754388f9377588cea736582952c743a95f4013753578094ae0601bae358c76/Cass-Davis_Lake-of-Fire_moCa_photo-credit-Courtesy-of-the-Artist.jpg" data-mid="168916426" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b7754388f9377588cea736582952c743a95f4013753578094ae0601bae358c76/Cass-Davis_Lake-of-Fire_moCa_photo-credit-Courtesy-of-the-Artist.jpg" /> <img width="3300" height="4950" width_o="3300" height_o="4950" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86386b1b89bed5b91507e079dfb91b823159748f1e95ae75a40390a5b5137065/Cass-Davis_Out-of-Time_01.jpg" data-mid="130685877" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/86386b1b89bed5b91507e079dfb91b823159748f1e95ae75a40390a5b5137065/Cass-Davis_Out-of-Time_01.jpg" />Out of Time 2020Engage Projects&nbsp;Curated by Pia Singh <img width="9504" height="6336" width_o="9504" height_o="6336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/730c3bcd0cd4f525b4f0d65642e6ba623439d6b62e71f114774e31d5687d1efd/Cass-Davis_Out-of-Time_06.jpg" data-mid="130685882" border="0" data-scale="97" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/730c3bcd0cd4f525b4f0d65642e6ba623439d6b62e71f114774e31d5687d1efd/Cass-Davis_Out-of-Time_06.jpg" />Deadname, 2020Cast soil, wood panel, photo album, teeth,resined lilacs, and sunflowers. <img width="9504" height="6336" width_o="9504" height_o="6336" 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height="6191" width_o="9287" height_o="6191" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1a32dfc05616f8ca70c1ea22566b1ecb13c4727c7090af473d28ff490fa43da/Cass-Davis_Out-of-Time_18.jpg" data-mid="130685920" border="0" data-scale="96" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1a32dfc05616f8ca70c1ea22566b1ecb13c4727c7090af473d28ff490fa43da/Cass-Davis_Out-of-Time_18.jpg" />Revival II, 2016Hand-woven Jacquard cloth. <img width="7348" height="4619" width_o="7348" height_o="4619" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8776618421680cbfa91f621e68f77ba65fb3b96251a4fbeba5f6119ef628f122/Cass-Davis_Out-of-Time_12.jpg" data-mid="130685898" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8776618421680cbfa91f621e68f77ba65fb3b96251a4fbeba5f6119ef628f122/Cass-Davis_Out-of-Time_12.jpg" /><img width="9504" height="6336" width_o="9504" height_o="6336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c73a877ce466c9ae7e02e838ee60b9e041169513aa1f9a024234939f7148ec1f/Cass-Davis_Out-of-Time_17.jpg" data-mid="130685919" border="0" data-scale="86" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c73a877ce466c9ae7e02e838ee60b9e041169513aa1f9a024234939f7148ec1f/Cass-Davis_Out-of-Time_17.jpg" />Bible, 2018Hand screen printed dye on textile. https://questionsfromthesoil.org/All-Together-Amongst-Many Sun, 19 Feb 2023 01:14:31 +0000 Cass Davis https://questionsfromthesoil.org/All-Together-Amongst-Many <img width="5400" height="3600" width_o="5400" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98625a9318131b3704421f8145c1eeb3b0864e196916390e2528e64ead5fa9c6/All-Together-Amongst-Many-Reflections-on-Empathy-Bemis-Center-202175.jpg" data-mid="168909679" border="0" data-scale="97" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7acf9f55a8c9519c0bc34991be25031a7413fc270d6e81b677e38dff28c742b/All-Together-Amongst-Many-Reflections-on-Empathy-Bemis-Center-202178.jpg" data-mid="168909681" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7acf9f55a8c9519c0bc34991be25031a7413fc270d6e81b677e38dff28c742b/All-Together-Amongst-Many-Reflections-on-Empathy-Bemis-Center-202178.jpg" /> <img width="5400" height="3600" width_o="5400" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/257950a93bc08c06098823caff7e7a64e5f786d4699d9094034da86a44ddd1a5/All-Together-Amongst-Many-Reflections-on-Empathy-Bemis-Center-202173.jpg" data-mid="168909677" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/257950a93bc08c06098823caff7e7a64e5f786d4699d9094034da86a44ddd1a5/All-Together-Amongst-Many-Reflections-on-Empathy-Bemis-Center-202173.jpg" /> <img width="5400" height="3600" width_o="5400" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcc92900fd19c3e2b91a11f47450669670b2e56d1de40cb6cb0f79115adb59d2/All-Together-Amongst-Many-Reflections-on-Empathy-Bemis-Center-202172.jpg" data-mid="168909675" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fcc92900fd19c3e2b91a11f47450669670b2e56d1de40cb6cb0f79115adb59d2/All-Together-Amongst-Many-Reflections-on-Empathy-Bemis-Center-202172.jpg" /> https://questionsfromthesoil.org/HEARTLAND Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:29:16 +0000 Cass Davis https://questionsfromthesoil.org/HEARTLAND HEARTLAND&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Oct 2019- Jan 2020<img width="1219" height="813" width_o="1219" height_o="813" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c43954fa917a2688827c4aca9e4dee2643e35ff8b936d9636358212a6e7c2e51/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-6.14.58-PM.png" data-mid="68716695" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c43954fa917a2688827c4aca9e4dee2643e35ff8b936d9636358212a6e7c2e51/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-6.14.58-PM.png" /> Solo Exhibition, G-CADD, St. Louis A view of the factory, an American flag at half-staff. The landscape, an infinite expanse of field. The revival. The harvest. A death, a resurrection— a haunting, no doubt. In Heartland, we are asked to consider the landscape as embodying both felt and unknown trauma. We are prompted to take a closer look at an identity so close and familiar that we don’t stop to listen to the ghosts trapped inside. Heartland examines the artist’s own Midwestern Evangelical upbringing. Their sculptures investigate relationships between redemption, resurrection, embodied trauma, and the failure of the American dream. Locating these sculptures within the very landscape to which they point presents a new kind of context for the work. What relationships develop when the landscape is reflected back at itself? What stories does it tell?&nbsp; <img width="3840" height="5760" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60b091208672198ea2ff7ee13645539d0f60cb3461b073e5a72940fbed3c4907/Heartland_G-CADD_15_Harvest--Ecstasy.jpg" data-mid="70536965" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/60b091208672198ea2ff7ee13645539d0f60cb3461b073e5a72940fbed3c4907/Heartland_G-CADD_15_Harvest--Ecstasy.jpg" /> <img width="2700" height="4050" width_o="2700" height_o="4050" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea1f034529cae652456c83776f6f6df3b2c3fef0a3595e36dcb6967ba1b8e528/Heartland_G-CADD_17_Harvest--Ecstasy_web.jpg" data-mid="70538368" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea1f034529cae652456c83776f6f6df3b2c3fef0a3595e36dcb6967ba1b8e528/Heartland_G-CADD_17_Harvest--Ecstasy_web.jpg" /> <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3857b2b02119402506718edf450fe8269cd4c8dbd99265e75242f1580490ea37/Heartland_G-CADD_11_Roadsign--Devotion.jpg" data-mid="70478734" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3857b2b02119402506718edf450fe8269cd4c8dbd99265e75242f1580490ea37/Heartland_G-CADD_11_Roadsign--Devotion.jpg" /> <img width="3656" height="5545" width_o="3656" height_o="5545" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b13d85c574e04cc85dd4d862f8a339c1d5a1e16528db5cb1935015c64c770b5/Heartland_G-CADD_09_Roadsign--Devotion.jpg" data-mid="70478514" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b13d85c574e04cc85dd4d862f8a339c1d5a1e16528db5cb1935015c64c770b5/Heartland_G-CADD_09_Roadsign--Devotion.jpg" /> <img width="5594" height="3615" width_o="5594" height_o="3615" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d23a3003b07bd20fd1d64acacc097eaa4d3e4d1f65fcc871e302a791e3d67bc1/Heartland_G-CADD_03.jpg" data-mid="70478802" border="0" 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height_o="870" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7fdf6a4499cbf48112cd9193c249c57e5d56b39b1d14a06768921f863063c29/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-6.15.24-PM.png" data-mid="68716697" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/576/i/a7fdf6a4499cbf48112cd9193c249c57e5d56b39b1d14a06768921f863063c29/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-6.15.24-PM.png" /> <img width="3840" height="5760" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81a00cbf7307e51f65429b81ee81947c595017158d3d00cbb6df32c0cafa7fba/Heartland_G-CADD_05_Harvest--Rapture.jpg" data-mid="70536963" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81a00cbf7307e51f65429b81ee81947c595017158d3d00cbb6df32c0cafa7fba/Heartland_G-CADD_05_Harvest--Rapture.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="5760" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29974714f6feeac1a938545e341a6a3042f147d9d1b4dfbe680f31d232eae78f/Heartland_G-CADD_06_Harvest--Rapture.jpg" data-mid="70536964" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29974714f6feeac1a938545e341a6a3042f147d9d1b4dfbe680f31d232eae78f/Heartland_G-CADD_06_Harvest--Rapture.jpg" /> <img width="1219" height="813" width_o="1219" height_o="813" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c43954fa917a2688827c4aca9e4dee2643e35ff8b936d9636358212a6e7c2e51/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-6.14.58-PM.png" data-mid="68716695" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c43954fa917a2688827c4aca9e4dee2643e35ff8b936d9636358212a6e7c2e51/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-6.14.58-PM.png" /> https://questionsfromthesoil.org/Of-Roses-and-Jessamine Tue, 28 Apr 2020 01:36:00 +0000 Cass Davis https://questionsfromthesoil.org/Of-Roses-and-Jessamine Of Roses and Jessamine,&nbsp;2016.<img width="1000" height="653" width_o="1000" height_o="653" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6f1cdce0bb5ed5c24e46b262d92263cadc43046dd991b054b57306cb5486ed3/Davis--Cassandra_Of-Roses-and-Jessamine-Solo-Exhibition-View.JPG" data-mid="68726241" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a6f1cdce0bb5ed5c24e46b262d92263cadc43046dd991b054b57306cb5486ed3/Davis--Cassandra_Of-Roses-and-Jessamine-Solo-Exhibition-View.JPG" /> Solo Exhibition SITE Galleries, Chicago IL Of Roses and Jessamine investigates spatial and corporeal sites of ritual. Take from the devotional and erotic poetry of Saint Teresa de Avila, the show’s title embraces the deeply sensual nature of personal worship and spiritual ecstasy. Additionally, works in the show flicker between states of revival anddestruction. These sites for collective spiritual and social identity simultaneously surround and separate the viewer from the experience promised within. What, if anything, is being revived? Or are these structures instead collapsing from within? <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f936551448440d326939fd53de8df4643c226ca485f82ef129298365da18abba/Davis--Cassandra_Of-Roses-and-Jessamine_1.jpg" data-mid="68726248" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f936551448440d326939fd53de8df4643c226ca485f82ef129298365da18abba/Davis--Cassandra_Of-Roses-and-Jessamine_1.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="840" width_o="1500" height_o="840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/90c931275ad9f594ca7593bf74b0e513714aaddbed038b4448e4285990769d2c/Davis--Cassandra_08_Untitled--for-Matthew.jpg" data-mid="68726247" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/90c931275ad9f594ca7593bf74b0e513714aaddbed038b4448e4285990769d2c/Davis--Cassandra_08_Untitled--for-Matthew.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="672" width_o="1000" height_o="672" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9bec95362e3afc2d75c74d886c3b4785481ea90c2e800f4457c05dfc06c95244/Davis--Cassandra_Slain-in-the-Spirit_BEST_8x12.jpg" data-mid="68726240" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9bec95362e3afc2d75c74d886c3b4785481ea90c2e800f4457c05dfc06c95244/Davis--Cassandra_Slain-in-the-Spirit_BEST_8x12.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7daa1d9f02b50db009cf1c608317ff07f853e5898a5bb0bc4de747729a5a8f23/10_Cassandra-Davis_Slain-in-the-Spirit_Detail-copy.jpg" data-mid="68726249" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7daa1d9f02b50db009cf1c608317ff07f853e5898a5bb0bc4de747729a5a8f23/10_Cassandra-Davis_Slain-in-the-Spirit_Detail-copy.jpg" /> Davis' work draws deeply from their Evangelical upbringing and rural Midwestern identity. Their practice is focused on locating the phenomenological within rural America. The work seeks to critique systems of belief while also embracing the unknown. Davis questions power structures, yet invokes the power of the supernatural and personal experience. Davis’ practice is tensioned between a desire for belief and existential loss. Material explorations across works explore cloth as a form of establishing shroud and sanctuary, seeking to capture the spiritual ecstasy experienced by devoted believers. Davis’ work embodies an aura of obsessive devotion, as expressed in the hand-woven, hand-sewn, and reclamation of ritual. <img width="1000" height="713" width_o="1000" height_o="713" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42aa0ba7f39bf8e232ae09ff3b21b278b196f602858e7ea80dc606ace446bc47/Baptism_Installation-View_Cassandra-Davis_web.jpg" data-mid="68726239" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/42aa0ba7f39bf8e232ae09ff3b21b278b196f602858e7ea80dc606ace446bc47/Baptism_Installation-View_Cassandra-Davis_web.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f936551448440d326939fd53de8df4643c226ca485f82ef129298365da18abba/Davis--Cassandra_Of-Roses-and-Jessamine_1.jpg" data-mid="68726248" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f936551448440d326939fd53de8df4643c226ca485f82ef129298365da18abba/Davis--Cassandra_Of-Roses-and-Jessamine_1.jpg" /> https://questionsfromthesoil.org/Backyard-Monolith Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:29:15 +0000 Cass Davis https://questionsfromthesoil.org/Backyard-Monolith Backyard, Monolith&nbsp; &nbsp; 2020Cedar, soil, reclaimed wood platform, clamp light, dried flowers, personal historical artifacts. 11.5ft x 2ft x 6in (Monolith), 4ft x 5ft x 5ft (platform) <img width="575" height="868" width_o="575" height_o="868" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c0ed67cb5fceb8a188557f3cacf06a64692aac0824d97a2c6e45a7c961ac1664/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-6.03.08-PM.png" data-mid="68714282" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/575/i/c0ed67cb5fceb8a188557f3cacf06a64692aac0824d97a2c6e45a7c961ac1664/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-6.03.08-PM.png" /> <img width="580" height="868" width_o="580" height_o="868" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe23b654ad82dd4b39e1534a37e72ab57d7f14fd7c5b8cd3fda2f4aaf33205d8/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-6.03.48-PM.png" data-mid="68714285" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/580/i/fe23b654ad82dd4b39e1534a37e72ab57d7f14fd7c5b8cd3fda2f4aaf33205d8/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-6.03.48-PM.png" /> Backyard, Monolith is an excavation of the history that lies in my own backyard, that in which I attempt to grow a garden. Objects are suspended in a state between excavation and burial, speaking to a felt absence. Stacked vertically, the main column structure is a gesture of the exhausting effort towards transcendence via excavation of one’s own history. My history includes the erasure of those who stood on this ground long before me. When I consider what rests beneath the soil, the history in my hometown—that is like every small town’s history, this feels like a memorial. <img width="3840" height="5760" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51fe0bd006fedef6af913361698e969829f21a0ae559dd3704c03df899b6ffa3/Cass-Davis_Tracing-Faults__7.jpg" data-mid="70464174" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/51fe0bd006fedef6af913361698e969829f21a0ae559dd3704c03df899b6ffa3/Cass-Davis_Tracing-Faults__7.jpg" /> <img width="3745" height="5618" width_o="3745" height_o="5618" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/862a85fb5ad33cd7a76182261fb31d2cb2e98293ac0ed1f1a60fceeecd63e75b/Cass-Davis_Tracing-Faults__13.jpg" data-mid="69996136" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/862a85fb5ad33cd7a76182261fb31d2cb2e98293ac0ed1f1a60fceeecd63e75b/Cass-Davis_Tracing-Faults__13.jpg" /> <img width="3667" height="2661" width_o="3667" height_o="2661" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7faf4cd3b618aaa38bb7cd7d0d962411e37fbae50b61404a3b0c132bb91334b/Cass-Davis_Tracing-Faults__9b.jpg" data-mid="70475029" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7faf4cd3b618aaa38bb7cd7d0d962411e37fbae50b61404a3b0c132bb91334b/Cass-Davis_Tracing-Faults__9b.jpg" /> <img width="580" height="872" width_o="580" height_o="872" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7eaaeb68a00bf26e2d9a66471a7cb9f5676795ba0260568775b2dc509c78e5da/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-6.03.33-PM.png" data-mid="68714284" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/580/i/7eaaeb68a00bf26e2d9a66471a7cb9f5676795ba0260568775b2dc509c78e5da/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-6.03.33-PM.png" /> I imagine each panel arranged like the archaeological record, expanded so that as a viewer we struggle to see the top, which&nbsp; barely clears the ceiling rafts. Excavated soil is hoisted to the sky. The top panel holds my own history, my family, our recent imprint in the topsoil. The unexcavated. Below lies the mark of lives lived, and the violence in their displacement and erasure. There is silence and stillness in the packed soil panels, the absence is felt. Dried flowers are placed around the uncovered objects as gesture of mourning. A haunting garden.The platform is an object of the institution. It is both 1920’s revival pulpit and historic landmarker. And its failure to bring the viewer really any closer to the out of reach—or its inaccessibility, for that matter—is a testament to the failure of our current systems to address the unresolved historical trauma that rots like a disease in the bones of society.&nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="3796" height="5694" width_o="3796" height_o="5694" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e81b014cc3f55c5e54a708a0af77cb711928ba02081fe253c9122c564932d86/Cass-Davis_Tracing-Faults__4.jpg" data-mid="70468500" border="0" data-scale="66" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e81b014cc3f55c5e54a708a0af77cb711928ba02081fe253c9122c564932d86/Cass-Davis_Tracing-Faults__4.jpg" /> From Tracing Faults Chicago Artist’s Coalition, January 2020 “Backyard, Monolith offers an immediate access point into the exhibition and its framework. A column of framed soil traces a path from the ground up an into the space of the vaulted gallery ceiling. This monumental structure creates an implicit fault line, a rift that holds a series of unearthed artifacts that create a fragmented glimpse of the rural Midwestern landscape and culture from which they were collected. These objects and materials seem out of place in a contemporary art gallery, and magnify the dissonance between large urban cities like Chicago and the small communities that populate the rural landscape. The top frame contains a Westernized and feminine portrayal of a young Jesus Christ. This inclusion along with the supporting cast of materials points ot Davis’s Evangelical upbringing and underscores the soncervative and religiously driven temperament that steers Midwestern ideology. In front of the monolith, a weathered platfrom provides a marginally closer view of the structure as it stretches out of reach. The design makes reference to landmark viewing platforms and also to 1920s era revival pulpits. The viewer is invited to step up unto the platform and gaze up with their body at the soil and its contents as they extend into the sky. For the artist, the experience serves as metaphor for the excavation of our histories, of excavating what’s beneath our feet as a possible key to our transcendence.” -Jeff Robinson, curator <img width="2778" height="3818" width_o="2778" height_o="3818" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/059f4030ee12c1c0339890b30ede5e07fabe1cd3354b972e244077233dded355/IMG_9759.JPG" data-mid="70470218" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/059f4030ee12c1c0339890b30ede5e07fabe1cd3354b972e244077233dded355/IMG_9759.JPG" /> <img width="2807" height="3905" width_o="2807" height_o="3905" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aafd149f282895abfd9076965d5dd749f97c636d1268cf23acbd543bafb4ecc3/IMG_9780.JPG" data-mid="70470219" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aafd149f282895abfd9076965d5dd749f97c636d1268cf23acbd543bafb4ecc3/IMG_9780.JPG" /> https://questionsfromthesoil.org/Rapture-Apparition Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:29:15 +0000 Cass Davis https://questionsfromthesoil.org/Rapture-Apparition Rapture, Apparition &nbsp; 2020 Hand-woven Jacquard cloth, aged wooden billboard frame. Approx. 8ft x 9ft x 4ft<img width="1000" height="665" width_o="1000" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72f4c76546e96e82c8b3c4d9ff0dd846da9077b7b214f704bff3d48c4982edeb/Rapture--Apparition_4.jpg" data-mid="70472577" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/72f4c76546e96e82c8b3c4d9ff0dd846da9077b7b214f704bff3d48c4982edeb/Rapture--Apparition_4.jpg" /> <img width="667" height="1000" width_o="667" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14f3ccfb3d95197a0011ed8804b0fe34da5af5ed9537d64fe83c98c91a245945/Rapture--Apparition_1.jpg" data-mid="70472573" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/667/i/14f3ccfb3d95197a0011ed8804b0fe34da5af5ed9537d64fe83c98c91a245945/Rapture--Apparition_1.jpg" /> <img width="722" height="1000" width_o="722" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d78d0a0db3e800cf2b356d0673aa65c46cd04fae3339b9d644fda5b567454ada/Rapture--Apparition_9.jpg" data-mid="70473201" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/722/i/d78d0a0db3e800cf2b356d0673aa65c46cd04fae3339b9d644fda5b567454ada/Rapture--Apparition_9.jpg" /> <img width="676" height="1000" width_o="676" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07d092232fafb60d09b3daeebb164508f9d82cc4d92ed6bfdef80a7ad5624012/Rapture--Apparition_5.jpg" data-mid="70472578" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/676/i/07d092232fafb60d09b3daeebb164508f9d82cc4d92ed6bfdef80a7ad5624012/Rapture--Apparition_5.jpg" /> <img width="655" height="1000" width_o="655" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/863d74e0f1fab8e4b79914402ba7ff05f3d91f400b4b12b58ac2c91b9aacc387/Rapture--Apparition_7.jpg" data-mid="70473199" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/655/i/863d74e0f1fab8e4b79914402ba7ff05f3d91f400b4b12b58ac2c91b9aacc387/Rapture--Apparition_7.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="665" width_o="1000" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc8a8d803bbd1546f0c5cb3e946af8dad8f559f2ea7d9573ebf9b75459adba62/Rapture--Apparition_8.jpg" data-mid="70473206" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc8a8d803bbd1546f0c5cb3e946af8dad8f559f2ea7d9573ebf9b75459adba62/Rapture--Apparition_8.jpg" /> https://questionsfromthesoil.org/Harvest-Transcendence Tue, 28 Apr 2020 05:12:10 +0000 Cass Davis https://questionsfromthesoil.org/Harvest-Transcendence Harvest, Transcendence&nbsp; &nbsp;2019Cast corn and soil, twine, hand screen-printed ink on textile. &nbsp; <img width="500" height="750" width_o="500" height_o="750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d38254a7aef277bd26270e0c28882e27614532580782147425cf7979a9822c55/Cassandra-Davis_Harvest_01.jpg" data-mid="68740750" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/d38254a7aef277bd26270e0c28882e27614532580782147425cf7979a9822c55/Cassandra-Davis_Harvest_01.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/73c3c80ef84a89deafd8fd8d93eab509dcb2ab9bd49df20158ea5e146638f0a2/Cassandra-Davis_Harvest_02.jpg" data-mid="68740751" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/73c3c80ef84a89deafd8fd8d93eab509dcb2ab9bd49df20158ea5e146638f0a2/Cassandra-Davis_Harvest_02.jpg" /> <img width="500" height="814" width_o="500" height_o="814" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1037898f37743b52238b19faac2136b1ee32f53a8eccd93740955e36f0503508/Cassandra-Davis_Harvest_03.jpg" data-mid="68740752" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/1037898f37743b52238b19faac2136b1ee32f53a8eccd93740955e36f0503508/Cassandra-Davis_Harvest_03.jpg" />