Davy Fiveash
Davy Fiveash is an artist originally from southern Georgia. His work introduces a fresh, contemporary look at the Vanitas, or the Dutch Still Life genre of painting which presents themes of the impermanence of life, and man’s vain attempts at self-gain and importance.
This work deconstructs the traditional religious and sociological symbolization of the subject matter, in favor of a purely aesthetic presentation, focusing on the intricate qualities of the physical objects themselves and their external, visual qualities. Davy currently lives and works in Sacramento, California.
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Still Life With Flowers IX, watercolor pencil on paper, 18.5" x 18.5" - framed
Still Life With Tulips III, watercolor pencil on paper, 14" x 14" - framed
Still Life With Flowers, watercolor pencil on paper, 15" x 15" - framed
Still Life With Flowers & Air, watercolor pencil on paper, 16 x 16 - framed
Still Life With Flowers In Blue III, watercolor pencil on paper, 14 x 14 - framed
Still Life With Tulips I, watercolor pencil on paper, 13" x 13" - framed
Still Life With Flowers In Blue II, watercolor pencil on paper, 12" x 14" - framed
Flower Sketch In June, watercolor pencil on paper, 12" x 14" - framed
Still Life With Flowers In Blue II, watercolor pencil on paper, 12" x 14"- framed
Still Life With Flowers in Blue I, watercolor pencil on paper, 12" x 14" framed
Red Flowers, watercolor pencil on paper 13" x 13" - framed
Still Life With Flowers XXI, watercolor pencil on paper 13” x 9.5” - framed
Still Life With Flowers In Blue, watercolor pencil on paper, 26.5" x 34" - framed
Still Life With Flowers In Black I, watercolor pencil on paper, 12" x 15" - framed
Still Life With Flowers In Black II, watercolor pencil on paper, 14" x 12.5" - framed
Still Life With Tulips II, watercolor pencil on paper, 14" x 14" - framed
Still Life With Grapes and Peaches In Blue, watercolor pencil on paper, 13" x 15.5" - framed
Drawing Air IV, watercolor pencil on paper, 14 "x 14" - framed
Still Life With Flowers IX, watercolor pencil on paper, 18.5" x 18" - framed
Gray Flower, watercolor pencil on paper, 11" x 13.5" - framed
Still Life With Narcissism II, 30" x 39.5" - framed, watercolor pencil on paper
Still Life With Deer II, watercolor pencil on paper, 27” x 34.5” - framed
Drawing Air V, watercolor pencil on paper, 14" x 14" - framed
Drawing Air VI, watercolor pencil on paper, 14" x 14" - framed
Drawing Air VII, watercolor pencil on paper, 14 x 14 - framed
Drawing Air VIII, watercolor pencil on paper, 14" x 14" - framed
Drawing Air VIV, watercolor pencil on paper, 14" x 14" - framed
Drawing Air X, watercolor pencil on paper, 14" x 14" - framed
Drawing Air XI, watercolor pencil on paper, 14" x 14" - framed
Drawing Air XIII, watercolor pencil on paper, 14" x 14" - framed
Drawing Air XIV, watercolor pencil on paper, 14" x 14" - framed
Drawing Air XII, watercolor pencil on paper, 14" x 14" - framed
Drawing Air XVI, watercolor pencil on paper, 14" x 14" - framed
Drawing Air III, watercolor pencil on paper, 14" x 14" - framed
Drawing Air XV, watercolor pencil on paper, 14" x 14" - framed
Drawing Air II, watercolor pencil on paper, 14" x 14" - framed
Drawing Air IV, watercolor pencil on paper, 14 "x 14" - framed
Three Red Deer, watercolor pencil on paper, 11" x 13" - framed
Red Deer In My Grandmother's Hallway, watercolor pencil on paper, 7.5" x 13" - framed
Thirsty Boy, watercolor pencil on paper, 13" x 15" framed
Serenade II, watercolor pencil on paper, 11" x 13" - framed
Serenade I, watercolor pencil on paper, 11" x 13" - framed
Still Life With Rabbits and Flowers, oil on canvas, 42" x 35" - framed
Bucolia, oil on canvas, 36" x 48" - framed
Education
2009 San Francisco Art Institute, MFA
2007 The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Diploma
2003 Georgia Southern University, BFA
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Asterisk Gallery, Serenade, San Francisco, CA
2010 The Cottage Industry Painting Salon, San Francisco, CA
SOMArts Cultural Center Ramp Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 The MALE Center, Boston, MA
2005 Hildegaards, Valdosta GA
Borrell Creek Landing, St. Marys, GA
2004 Radial, Atlanta, GA
Milky Way Lounge, Jamaica Plain, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Asterisk Gallery, The Colors that Shape Us, San Francisco, CA
2013 Campfire Gallery, Touch, San Francisco, CA
Artworks Downtown, Drawing, San Rafael, CA
2012 Studio 17, selected group exhibition, San Francisco, CA
M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum, Annual Juried Staff Art Show, San Francisco, CA
2011 Incline Gallery, Quality of Line, San Francisco, CA
M.H deYoung Memorial Museum, Annual Juried Staff Art Show, San Francisco, CA
2010 The Cottage Industry Painting Salon, Tales from the New Lot, San Francisco, CA
Treehouse Gallery, Under 100, San Francisco, CA
The Victoria College, Translations, Victoria, TX
Soap Gallery, Graphic Nature, San Francisco, CA
Treehouse Gallery, Tiny Wonders, San Francisco, CA
2009 Studio Gallery, Tiny, November, San Francisco, CA
Verge Gallery, Magic Window, November, Sacramento, CA
George Krevsky Gallery, Summer Exhibition, July, San Francisco, CA
SOMArts Cultural Center, Threads, June, San Francisco, CA
Fort Mason Herbst Pavillion, Vernisage, May, San Francisco, CA
Diego Rivera Gallery, Dig, May, San Francisco, CA
2008 Swell Gallery, Composing Biology, San Francisco, CA
Diego Rivera Gallery, Drawing, San Francisco, CA
2007 The 42 Longshot Society, Jonestown, Boston, MA
SMFA, Annual Juried Drawing Show, Boston, MA
SMFA, Boston, Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Boston, MA
2006 SMFA, Boston, Close Proximity, Boston, MA
SMFA, Boston, Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Boston, MA
2004 he B Complex, Vice, Atlanta, GA
Mountain View Arts Center, Celebrate the Figure, Atlanta, GA
2002 Contemporary Art Center, Macon, GA
Benefits and Shows
2012 Studio 17, Artspan Annual Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
111 Minna St. Gallery, Sketch Tuesday, San Francisco, CA
2011 Fenwick and West L.L.P., Pride Law Fund Art Auction, San Francisco, CA
2009 Root Division, Annual Art Auction, San Francisco, CA
Space Gallery, Tweaker With an Axe- Film Benefit, San Francisco, CA
2008 West Bay Conference Center, Art For Kid's Sake, San Francisco, CA
SOMArts Gallery, Big Deal, San Francisco, CA
The Stud, Sychronium Films Benefit, San Francisco, CA
2006 Lowe Gallery, Georgia Lawyer's Association Benefit, Atlanta, GA
2004 Project Open Hand, Annual Art Benefit, Atlanta, GA
2003 City Hall East Gallery, Art Papers Annual, Atlanta, GA
2002 Ballroom Studios, Annual Benefit Auction, Atlanta, GA
Publications
2014 Serenade, A Series of Portraits by David Fiveash, Jeremy Joven, The New Asterisk Magazine, June/July, The Food Issue
2014 Aver, San Francisco Design Collective Inaugural Issue, Summer 2014
2006 MALE Center Gets Artsy, William Henderson, IN Newsweekly, July 26, Issue 15
Collections of note
Dr. Richard Marshall, Boston, MASS Art College of Art and Design, Board Member
Gina Shock, San Francisco, The Go-Go’s