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Sally Davies
Born (1956-07-26) July 26, 1956 (age 67)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
EducationNew York City Program, Ontario College of Art and Design
Known forPhotographer, Painter
AwardsNew York City Council Citation, 2014
Websitehttp://www.sallydaviesphoto.com

Sally Davies (born 1956 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a painter and photographer, living and working in New York City's East Village since 1983.[1]

Paintings

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".[2]

Photography

Although primarily focusing on her paintings in the 1980s, Davies simultaneously began to photograph the East Village. In the mid-1990s she had a fire in her loft on Avenue A and lost almost all her negatives to that date.[3]

In 2000 Davies had her first solo photography exhibit at the Gracie Mansion Gallery in the East Village. The Alien Photos served as a visual bridge between her paintings and her photography.[4] The final large-scale images consisted of dioramas that she constructed to house the 6-inch alien dolls in Barbie clothes in domestic situations.[5]

Lower East Side and East Village

Davies has been photographing New York City's Lower East Side since 1983.[6] She received a New York City Council Citation on February 6, 2014 from Rosie Mendez for her ongoing documenting of the Lower East Side, and the neighborhood's socio-economic changes.[7]

Davies exhibited these photographs at the now-closed Bernarducci Meisel Gallery in New York City, in 2014[8] and 2015.[9]

America

In 2016, Davies traveled to Los Angeles. She photographed Venice and Santa Monica and the surrounding neighborhoods.[10] Since then, she has continued to photograph Texas, Florida, and rural America as well as Western Canada.[11]

New Yorkers

Book Cover of New Yorkers, published by Ammonite Press

In 2021 Davies released the widely acclaimed book of photographs entitled “New Yorkers.” [12] The book sold out its first edition 2 days after it was published, and went into a 2nd printing. As of April 26, 2021 the book is ranking #1 in New Releases in Street Photography on Amazon[13]

New Yorkers presents 72 portraits of people in their apartments.[14] A cast of drag queens, store owners, doctors, dog walkers, psychics, cab drivers, writers, artists, tattoo artists, gallery owners, photographers, designers, dancers, and musicians (including such legendary New Yorkers as Laurie Anderson, Danny Fields, and William Ivey Long) reveal the diversity, creativity, and humanity at the heart of New York City.[15]

McDonald's Happy Meal Project

After betting with a restaurateur friend that McDonald's food did not spoil, rot, or go mouldy, Sally Davies purchased a Happy Meal from McDonald's and began photographing the food item daily, storing it on her kitchen counter.[16] This commenced the "McDonald's Happy Meal Project". The project began on April 10, 2010 and went viral about three months later.[17][18] The project demonstrated that the Happy Meal looked the same as it did when it was purchased months and years later. On August 19, 2018 the Happy Meal Project reached it 3051st day. It continues to be documented by Sally Davies.[19]

In the media

Davies' paintings have been featured on:

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).

In 2018, Davies art directed and photographed the cover image for Jim Cuddy's album Constellation.

Collections

Her paintings and photographs are in the collections of Harvard Business School, Sarah Jessica Parker, Debra Winger, Michael Patrick King, Phil Scotti, Jane Holzer, Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol and others.[20] Davies' work is also in the permanent collection of The Museum of the City of New York.[21]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Sally Davies New York City". Women in Photography. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  2. ^ ((Magazine|In Style Magazine, "Objects of Desire", June 1995, P. 40.]]
  3. ^ "Sally Davies Talks About Photographing the East Village". ISO 400, A Podcast by The Phoblographer. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  4. ^ "Sally Davies Talks About Photographing the East Village". ISO 400, A Podcast by The Phoblographer. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  5. ^ "Sally Davies New York City". Women in Photography. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  6. ^ A Democracy of Photos, Scalo Press Zurich, Berlin, New York, Sept 2002, pp.710
  7. ^ "Sally Davies New York City". Women in Photography. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  8. ^ "Sally Davies Lower East Side". Lenscratch. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  9. ^ "Sally Davies New York At Night". The Artist's Forum. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  10. ^ "New York City Photographer Sally Davies Hits The Streets Of Los Angeles". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  11. ^ "West Coast Canada". Sally Davies Photo. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  12. ^ New Yorkers - Sally Davies - 9781781454046 - Book | Kriso.ee.
  13. ^ "Amazon New Releases in Photography". Retrieved 2021-04-26.
  14. ^ Will Gleason. "Check out these striking portraits of New Yorkers at home". Time Out New York. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
  15. ^ "'Joy every day': New Yorkers reveal their fabulous apartments – in pictures". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
  16. ^ "Sally Davies Talks About Photographing the East Village". ISO 400, A Podcast by The Phoblographer. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  17. ^ "Sally Davies Talks About Photographing the East Village". ISO 400, A Podcast by The Phoblographer. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  18. ^ "Why We're Scared of Happy Meals". Refinery 29. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  19. ^ "Press and Photographs of the Happy Meal". The Happy Meal Project by Sally Davies. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  20. ^ "Sally Davies New York City". Women in Photography. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  21. ^ "Sally Davies New York City". The Museum of the City of New York. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  22. ^ New Yorkers - Sally Davies - 9781781454046 - Book | Kriso.ee.

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