Visual artist Dexter Lee Davis creates raucous collage-based works made by layering and combining fragments of hand-carved woodblock prints together with scraps of found paper.
Recycling everything around him into something new, he transmutes the ordinary into something evocative, forcing us to reconsider the limits and possibilities of our material world. A survivor of multiple episodes of urban violence, his daily practice of art making offers a space of freedom, liberation, and refuge.
He is a lifelong resident of Cleveland, a Cleveland Institute of Art alumnus who studied in France after graduation and has served as a guard at the Cleveland Museum of Art for 30 years.